The
four English professional Leagues contain 96 teams making
for a huge programme of football each weekend. Add to this
hundreds of semi-professional and amateur clubs and you can
see why many consider English football to be the best in the
world.
The
English professional leagues are:
Premiership
Championship
League 1
League 2
Below
these divisions are many smaller leagues feeding into the
Nationwide Conference, the top teams of which are promoted
to Nationwide Division Three at the end of the season.
Each
year English clubs compete for the FA Cup, the oldest
domestic cup competition in the world. Over 600 teams compete
for the FA Cup making for some of the most exciting
matches in the football calendar. A domestic league cup is
also contested over the season.
Scotland
also has a strong league structure, contesting four leagues
too.
Scottish
Premier League (SPL)
Scottish Division One
Scottish Division Two
Scottish Division Three
These
leagues are smaller than their English counterparts. Scotland
also has two cup competitions to compete for.
