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Waltzing Along posted:So those function as minor leagues for EPL then? No. the EPL is the top tier of the English football structure. Spain's biggest clubs play in the Spanish league, Germany's play in the Bundesliga, Italy's big teams play in Serie A, so on, so forth. The "minor leagues" for the EPL are the rest of the English football pyramid. The Championship, League One, League Two, all the way down through to 11 or 12 tiers (& possibly more, I dunno, there's a lot of English football leagues is the main point). So you can start as an EPL side, finish bottom 3, get relegated to the Championship. And then you could theoretically keep finishing bottom & get relegated numerous time. Obviously this doesn't happen because the money involved in those lower tiers is next to nil so a EPL team that gets 25,000+ fans per game would never get that low.
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Waltzing Along posted:So then they do use the other leagues as minor leagues. No, because there are really a number of big, wealthy teams with the pick of the best players across England, Spain & France. Neymar for Paris Saint-Germain, Messi & Suarez play for Barcelona, Ronaldo is at Real Madrid, Griezmann is at Atletico Madrid, Neuer & Lewandowski are at Bayern Munich, Aguero & De Bruyne are at Manchester City, so on, so forth. So the EPL isn't at the top of the pyramid, it's just one of a number of major leagues in world football. And there are some very small teams in those major leagues, like Huddersfield & Burnley in the EPL, Eibar & Girona in La Liga, SPAL & Sassuolo in Serie A, etc. Promotion & relegation are really great concepts.
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