@kaszaspeter77
This is an EXTREMELY old video, but most of it is still true, with some exceptions regarding the Champions League.
@CoL_Drake
Champions League Format changed this year in a Swiss league system first instead of groups.
@stiglarsson8405
It was a bit old video.. but it explain how it works in general terms. Another differens is that USA have collage teams and professional teams, in europe we dont have college teams we have clubs! Its works different in different countrys but clubs have members that pay member fees.. its often included in that whole year home game ticket togheter with membership in the fan club! In USA sportsteams are franchaising companys abow college teams! No relegations.. its like if a MC-D joint could get relegated to BK or KFC! In some european countrys different US, russian, middle eastern oligarks can buy a whole club (especialy in England), its not a good investment, its in moste cases a money pit.. they buy prestige/goodwill for them self and there companyes! Soo a team in europe is those guys out there on the pitch that represent your club!
@jameshumphreys9715
Some Leagues like Leagues of Ireland play from February to November. League that has 10 teams play each other 4 times.
@PeoplecallmeLucifer
2:40 well yes and no. It really depends on who smart the club is with their finances.
@martinbynion1589
In most countries there are at least TWO knock-out tournaments each year, so, allowing also for National team duties for the best players, each club has to have a big roster to cope with the wear and tear of playing so many games. Remember that this is just CLUB football; there are also NATIONAL teams (USA, England, Spain, etc) who will play tournaments at least every two years: the Wortld Cup in the USA in 2026 and the Regional Championships (Europe, The Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania) in 2024, 2028, etc. Whew! Always some top football to watch. 🙂 Great to see that you are interested, mate!
@nightstorm5914
Also some small correction, yes Bigger clubs dont own smaller clubs in different dvisions But can have a 2nd team with younger players to play in semi-professional/amateur football divisions (where they could transfer/"buy"/loan players to they 1st team or to other football teams but still act as different team). Also there is a rule, that the 1st and 2nd team could never be/play in the same league. So kinda think the 2nd team as part of the youngth project/evolution of the 1st team/brand.
@NoReturn666
The chances to go insolvent when relegated are very slim for 99,9% of the clubs unless they are very poorly managed financially. It's usually just a big revenue loss that you can bounce back from when you immediatly get promoted again or when you're a small club anyway that isn't really a top division team but lucked into promotion the year before and then went down again immediatly. It only gets critical when a team already has so much debt that the revenue loss would break the camels back. You'll also easily survive when your club is just managed well. A bad example: Schalke 04 are one of the biggest clubs in Germany and were relegated a few years ago to the 2nd division. The club was run very poor financially for almost 15 years now. Poor transfer policy, bad financial management, having a huge stadium and top notch facilities led to them basically having to release or sell almost all of their players when they went down. With others they were able to negotiate significantly lower wage contracts. The club currently still has ~160 million euro of debt and that almost broke the clubs back last year. Being in the 2nd division now, Schalke can pay back about ~15 mil a year.while being a midtable team from 2nd division revenue. For a club that long was considered top 6 in Germany, played in the Champions League regularly and that has one of the biggest fanbases in the country this is an absolute disasterclass. Eventho I'm a fan of their rivals Dortmund, you really have to feel for them because the club is basically destroyed for the foreseeable future and it will be very hard for this massive club to get to a financial healthy level and top flight football again.
@oscaralejandrovasquezramir8632
And It works pretty much the same way in South America. Each Country has it´s own League and Cup, there is Relegation, and we have a continental champions league called Copa Libertadores.
@tupacshakour9102
Step 1 : There are leagues that aren't of an independent country but of an autonomous region like Gibraltar that belongs to UK and Faroe Islands that belong to Denmark and Monaco and Liechtenstein even though they're technically countries they don't have a league because they're too small and in order to have a league the minimum required number of teams is 8 and Liechtenstein has 7 so they only do a cup and their teams compete in the Swiss league pyramid. Monaco has a big team but plays in the French league. In the English league system there's a few welsh teams( Cardiff, Swansea, Wrexham and Newport County) and not in the welsh league. The number of teams in a league varies from division to division and country to country. No top division has more than 20( England, Spain and Italy), others have less like Germany has 18,Norway has 16,Greece has 14, Scotland has 12, Switzerland has 10 and Moldova has 8( the mimimum). In lower leagues you can have more. Step 2 : Again the number of teams going up and down varies, In England it's 3 but it's 2 in Greece or 1 in Switzerland. The leagues of micro states don't have that system because of their size like San Marino, Andorra and Gibraltar. Step 3 : The cup is unrelated to the championship. Some leagues have playoffs but not like in Basketball or something. England's second division has a playoff system for the teams that are placed 3 - 6 to determine the 3rd team going up because the first 2 are promoted automatically. In first divisions some leagues use playoffs but not on knockout style but as a mini league like Belgium that has the most complicated system has playoffs for league winner, the European tickets( they give entrance to the Uefa competitions) and the relegation battle. Step 4 : Uefa now has 3 competitions for clubs( Champions League, Europa League, Conference League). The participants in these competitions is based from the previous season's results and the number of teams from a country depends on the league's standing in the Uefa coefficient ranking that ranks all the top leagues in Europe based on their clubs performance in the Uefa competitions. So top leagues like in Italy have 4 teams in Champions League, 2 in Europa League and 1 in Conference League so that means that teams in a league like that have goals other than winning the league and avoiding relegation like you could be after the 4th place to get in the Champions League or the 7th to at least be in the Conference League. In lower ranked leagues the number become smaller like 6 in Portugal that is ranked 7th or 5 for Greece that's ranked 12th and below 15th place it's limited to 4 spots in the Uefa competitions and way down in 50+ it's 3 spots( Liechtenstein gets only 1 because they only have a cup and not a league) and these spots are for the qualifying rounds, only the top leagues have guaranteed participation in Champions League and Europa League. As for the format of the competitions it has changed now, it's no longer 32 teams in 8 groups of 4 but 36 in one group that plays against 8 ( 6 in the Conference) teams but not home and away, 4(3 for Conference)you play at home and 4(3) away and the top 8 move on to the knockout rounds waiting for their opponents to come from like a play in round in NBA where the the teams from 9 to 24 are paired and the winner gets to play against one of the top 8 and then it's knockout rounds with home and away leading to the final. Now we are in the semifinals of Uefa competitions. In the Champions League it's Arsenal vs Paris Saint Germain and Barcelona vs Inter In Europa League it's Bilbao vs Manchester United and Tottenham vs Bødø/ Glimt In Conference League it's Betis vs Fiorentina and Chelsea vs Djurgardens. Hope it's not too much.
@jameshumphreys9715
Once everybody in Belgium and Austria has played everyone twice, the league is split 6-6 in Austria, and top to the bottom 6-6-4 in Belgium league half their points once the regular season is over, in austria any odd number of points are rounded down, so a club with 33 points which would be 32 so they end up with 16 In Belgium it is rounded up, these are taken into account if there is a tie in points.
@CS-lh1pn
To explain the scheduling and games better...imagine an NFL season schedule with one game a week (Sunday) In soccer, the league games are most likely Saturday or Sunday. Cup games or Champions League games are midweek Tuesday thru Thursday. In terms of the type of games and their importance...look at it like this: NFL - SOCCER The Playoffs/Superbowl - Champions League Matches/Final Regular season games/League matches Preseason games/Cup matches But in soccer...preseason, regular season and the playoffs all happen at the same time if it makes sense (refer to the type of game and back to the top). You can win a title for all of them in soccer, but most teams have to decide which one to focus on. Elite teams can win all three but rare, while the good and mediocre teams only focus on the league and cup matches because they dont or cant qualify for the Champions league (NFL Playoffs). What makes the Champions League so important and exciting is that only the winners and top 4 of each country's league qualify for the tournament. Best 4 from France, Best 4 from England, Best 4 from Germany and etc. So the level of competition is at its highest, best of the best...think playoff NFL or NBA atmosphere and type of games. Hopefully its not too confusing but taking the information in little by little would eventually make it seem less confusing. -coming from an American who grew up with the NBA and NFL too
@vincesalamander5980
Something even many europeans dont know : the true name of the game is "Football Association" Like FIFA is the "Fédération Internationale (yeah the title is in french) de Football Association" Because at the beginning (basically, the first half of 19th century) the game of football in UK had multiple versions... And that's still the case now. American Football, or Rugby XV (real name : Rugby Football Union) or Australian Football... are football like Football Association, they came from the same base (a game with two teams of at least 10 players, two goals with a ball to throw inside the goals, with a spheric ball who could be kick or carry, with feet or hands) and after that choose how they wanted to evolve. "Football Association" is called "Football" almost everywhere because it's the most common form of football. USA follow the same logic, except that for them the most common version of football isnt the "Association" but the "American". So, exactly like european called the American's version of the game "American's Football", americans called the Association's version "Soccer".
@darrenfearon4288
Sadly the teams that get promoted up are likey to go back down again because competion below is not at the same standard as the big league.
@hellmuthschreefel9392
The most interesting thing about promotion and relegation is that EVERY game becomes important. You can not, as a team near the bottom of the league, just pack it in and coast for the rest of the season. There are real economic, historical and bragging rights consequences for being relegated. And on the flip side, every game at the TOP of your league is critical for the economic, historical and bragging rights benefits of being promoted. In the US poor teams can continue to be poor still knowing the TV revenue money will be there next season. The Detroit Lions under the old leadership are the perfect example where they went decades being poor to middlingly mediocre but were still able to play in the "premier league" of American football. That doesn't happen in a promotion and relegation system where working to do better has real world benefits.
@Oroxom3
I think last 2 years in the Spain League, a team of sec9nd division entered the major league and almost won it 😂😂😂
@_chaeng_
I'm excited to watch your journey
@DustySmith1
I would recommend watching 'the beauty of football'
@ChillNikov
Fun video I enjoyed it, keep it up :)
@030beh