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Football may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but the beautiful game is the popular sport in the world. It is played in over two hundred countries by over two hundred and fifty million people in several leagues.
But there is one league that stands out above the rest – the English Premier League.
Known commonly as the ‘EPL’, the league consists of twenty teams, with plenty to play for.
Finishing in the top spot makes your team the champions of that season, finishing the top three gets you direct entry into the Champions League, with fourth place playing for one in a two-legged knockout fixture.
Fifth place gets direct entry into the Europa League with sixth and seventh placed sides also having the possibility of qualification.
The bottom three spots on the table are known as the ‘relegation zone’. Ending a season in the bottom three gets you relegated into the league below.
While there is so much talent, star power and marketability in football outside of England, the Premier League is the most watched, the most well known, and the most popular league in the world.
Here’s why.
Unpredictability
The Barclays Premier League has a competitive balance like no other. Anyone can truly beat anyone in the Premier League. Although teams like Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus tend to do well in European competitions, their leagues basically end the same way. Most of the time it’s just a two, maybe three-team race to the top with who can score the most goals in between.
You see an upset here or there, but it’s reported as massive news when it happens.
The Premier League teams and their fans have that hope for their side every season. Fans tune into every game as there is so much to play for, and top teams have that need to win as dropping points can get them rapidly overtaken.
Upsets are occasional and otherwise unknown talent get their name up in the lights. Truly anything can happen in the Barclays Premier League.
Quality players
Although arguably the best players in the world play for Spanish sides, there is an abundance of quality footballers in the Premier League.
Over the last few years we have seen so much talent come and go, and with players such as Mesut Ozil, Sergio Aguero, Alex Sanchez, Angel Di Maria, Hugo Lloris and Eden Hazard all playing truly competitive football in the same league, it’s no wonder why so many people tune in to watch.
The Premier League also gives players the opportunity to make names for themselves, to become heroes for their clubs and with such a big audience they can build a real fan-base.
Players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry are who they are today due to the Premier League, and will forever remain in the heads and the hearts of their fans.
The ‘big’ games
There are so many rivalries, derbies, and so much history in games in the Premier League.
Every point is vital and whether teams are playing for top spots or to get out of bottom ones, there is always something to play for.
The entire season can come down to game, and the hopes and dreams of many can be realised or crushed by a single kick of the football. With so much history and so much to play for in every single game, it makes it worth your time to tune in.
Quality football
With such an even playing field a lot of matches tend to become fast paced back-and-forth battles.
The Premier League is a very aggressive and attacking based league. Whether you’re watching Chelsea press forward relentlessly, Arsenal move the ball around the pitch with style, Swansea City attack down the wings to whip a ball in or Manchester United exploit every gap they see, you will almost always be entertained every single time.
Spanish and German leagues are dominated by a few teams, the Italian league are so tactical and slow paced, and most other leagues lack the amount of quality and star power the Premier League shows and produces.
England’s Premier League shows technical faced paced and goal-orientated football- which makes it so much better for the fans and viewers.
The fans
Probably the biggest reason of all, the loyalty of the fans of the Premier League all over the world is unmatched. Nearly every single football game is a sell out and the crowds are loud and passionate enough to make ten thousand sound like fifty thousand.
This is a fan-base that has spanned all over the globe, when Liverpool visited Australia at the end of 2013, over 90,000 strong stood up to sing You’ll never walk alone. A truly amazing spectacle that caused chills no matter where you were watching from.
With such a loyal, diverse and loving fan-base, it’s easy to see why the Premier League is watched and supported by so many people.
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