Why Did The Premier League Break Away From The Football League in 1992? 

Short answer: money Long answer: mmmmmooooooonnnnnnneeeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I love this. Every media pretends that the premier league was some insurance and never mentions the football before that. I want more recognition for the brilliance before 92 damnit.

You also forget that in the 80s Football clubs were suffering from a lack of money due to decreasing crowds in their stadium's thanks to the hooligans, also the stadiums in the 80s were showing their age and desperately needed updating but clubs didn't have the money to do so

Another documentary video! My favourite! It's kinda disappointing that these types of vids gets the least views, despite being the best of the lot.

Nah, everyone knows football was invented in 1992 by Rupert Murdoch. They have a special department at Sky Sports dedicated to hunting down anyone who claims otherwise.

2021 after the European Super league fiasco...and this video aged like fine wine

Your spot on. Every stat Martin tyler says is always 92 onwards. Like everything before then was not important

I remember a time when it was referred to as "the old first division". It's been so long now it barely gets a mention nowadays, and when it does it's "the top flight". Ah, the nostalgic.

The back pass rule was introduced after Euro 92, which was a dramatic change to the way in which football was played. So much so, you could make the argument that that’s why 1992 and onwards is considered modern football. Coincidental with the formation of the premier league but convenient.

This is the shit they wanted us to forget after this whole ESL debacle. Maybe Perez is right😅

This video is all the more relevant now

Bit rich for the prem to whine about the super league when their "premier" league was no different, taking the elite teams and kicking off "lesser" ones.

Hahaha I love the irony of Man City calling for spending caps.

and now there might be a separation of the Championship from the EFL with all the money being spent by Championship clubs rivaling that of a lot of clubs in top tier leagues in other countries

Simple answer: *MONEY*

Best homegrown XI in premier league. (This means players that played for more than 3 years in England before the age of 21.)

It’s so weird to see this video after the ESL debacle. So many similarities that it’s uncanny.

I completely agree! Why is football before 1992 completely forgotten? For example Jimmy Greaves is the top scorer with 357 goals that's nearly 100 more than Alan Shearer.

Best XI of relegated players in the top five leagues in Europe this season.

Haha, Ken Bates and Epstein‘s Ghislaine Maxwell, that shocked me a bit to be honest.

This is what I love about this channel, it knows and respects the fact football didnt start in 1992 and actually had over 100 years of history before

Almost 30 years later, we have a similar situation with the UEFA Super League

Idea: all time Premier League 11 from a single country. All Italians, French, Irish eg.

Love the content, the subjects you cover, and how in depth you go with these mini documentaries. Thanks Alfie.

It's embarrassing when people say teams have never won the league if it's not the Prem. If that's the case then only United, City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Leicester and Blackburn have won the league which is ridiculous. So many more teams have won the league when it was the First division.

Anyone else watching this after premier league almost got a taste of their own medicine

This is what really killed football long before the Super League came along

"I wish I played in the premier league" -Pele

I love these videos so much. This guy doesn’t get enough appreciation

But I thought "AmErIcAn OwNeRs OnLy WaNt MoNeY" as Sky sports always kept insisting

Man City concerned about ludicrous transfer fees, imagine that, hard i know 😂

Money money & money . Big difference there is that the second tier of football still has a chance to be promoted to the premier league as opposed to a closed shop that the ESL would be .

The national team has probably suffered overall. I can't imagine when it first started that the FA envisioned the teams just buying the best foreign players and therefore forcing out or not giving chances to the english players as often.

You should rank all Manchester United seasons since Ferguson left as there have been 7

Good thing the PL broke away from the EFL, seeing how the EFL has dealt with the Wigan, Bury and Bolton issues.

Love you Alfie, I watch all your videos. Keep doing your thing and continue to make fantastic videos like this my friend.

Fantastic video Alfie, well said and spoken 👏

A very intresting and informative video keep up the good work

The head of the football league said that they moved their base to Lytham St Annes because it was as far as they could get from the FA!! That shows you the relationship that they had with each other.

You have to use his whole title, it's: Real-Life Supervillain Rupert Murdoch

Brilliant topic and video Alfie.

Average international premier league fan: Alan Shearer is a beast the greatest scorer of English football!! Me: That would be Jimmy Greaves PL fan: Who? Another thing that's annoying is calling the second division the "Championship" English football is one step away from having playoffs, drafts and half time shows I fear...

Once again, fantastic content.

"A house of cards that's crumbling at the seams." Three metaphors for the price of one. Best value on RU-vid today.

I love this channel. It reminds me just how big the world of our beloved sport is.

You make the best football mini documentaries! Awesome keep it up 👍🏼

I miss Everton being a big club

Even worse: A few years ago Steven Gerrard wanted the Telly money to go mostly to the big clubs. I remember him saying that people in Asia ( I live in Thailand ) want to watch Liverpool and Man Utd. Not small teams such as Bornemouth, Everton etc. It's true that Liverpool and Man Utd are by far the most popular teams in all of South East Asia. When I used to play in Thailand, when thais asked me which team I supportd and I told them............., they would ask me why?

I wish the divisions were simply numbered.

Great video today keep it up your doing amazing job

In answer to the above question. This is my personal opinion. Yes it was money. When the ban was lifted on English clubs. English football wanted to reform itself enough so it could be as wealthy as the football on the continent like Frnace, Spain, Italy etc. For about 20 years prior to the formation of the PL, English football was in crisis. Not so much with results on the pitch as English clubs were successful in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. It was more to do with events off the pitch. Wherever English teams played was often marred by crowd trouble. Which came to a head with Heysel in 1985 and English clubs being banned for six years. This was seen as a disaster for English football as the standard of Footall in England suffered as a result during those six years. However ironically this period also saw the emergence of very talented players in England that did well in italia 90. Players like Gary Lineker, Paul Gascoigne, Peter Beardsley, Paul Parker, Ian Wright, John Fashanu to name a few. Also in the 1970s and 1980s much of the stadia in England was very old some have not been renovated since the 1930s and 1940s. Making any stadium in England at the time potential dangerous to attend. Crumbling old stadiums, crowd trouble and lack of resources by police to ensure safety of matches came to a head at hillsbrough in Sheffield in 1989. By this time English football was the pariah league of Europe if not the world. It was potentially life threatening for reasons above for anyone to go and watch a game of soccer in England during this era. Still unlike the serie a in recent years. The English game was well attended by fans. Meaning football is more a religion in England than even Italy. Since Italians once their league faded away. Just decided. Yeah its just football. Its not that important there other priorities we can now do on a weekend than following the Serie A which has had its day, it was great while it lasted. That would never happen in England. The following in England would be there no matter what or how bleak things get. So even during the bad years. Crowds flocked to football in England in the 1970s and 1980s despite crowd trouble and bad stadia. The light at the end of the tunnel for English football came at Italia 90 world cup in Italy. Home of the Serie A and the most successful and respected league in the world in this era. I think you explained the glory years of Italian serie a. Well England's unexpeceted good performance at Italia 90 convinced the people who run English football that a root and branch change is required if English footall is to survive and thrive into the 1990s and 21st century. Like what the Serie A has become in the last 10 years English football was back then. In 1991 all English clubs were allowed back in the fold in Europe. So its no surprise the English premier League was launched soon after. They scrapped the top tiers and made it the Premier League. You wouldn't bet against them being successful. London was a global hub. TV Media moghuls like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch and others already had their headquarters for Europe there. Now English Football asked them to invest in English football and beam it to far flung corners. English football already had a type of following in places like South East Asia , East Asia, Africa, Australia and North America a market ready made and ready to go this was supercharged and monetised. However the quality of English football in the early years was not great. I remember watching it. I am a huge serie A fan. So I was rest easy in the fact that supremacy of Serie A would never be challenged by up and coming leagues like English League. Boy was I wrong within 3 years of the the launch the EPL was already putting pressure on the Serie A. Also more an more foreign players were moving to England also the football was more attacking and seen to be entertaining by more and more people. I got seriously concerned by the mid to late 1990s. That the decline of Serie A was on and all the good things about football that came from the serie a would be lost forever. English football went from strength to strength in the mid to late 1990s. Better stadiums. Old dilapidated stadiums were upgraded or made much safer. Better policing and surveillance making it very difficult for crowd violence or trouble to occur which was a blight on the English game for so long. Campaigns like kick racism out of football and no to crowd violence were launched and promoted. It looked English football had almost completely solved much of the problems that plagued it in the 1970s and 1980s. By the dawn of the 21st century of the Premier Leauge. Meanwhile Serie A sadly for me as a fan of the Italian game became a shadow of its former self.

Literally had Man United fan say to me “Liverpool only have won one league title because as the other 18 happened before the premier league, they don’t matter”.

cracking video, well done fella

To everyone saying "this is just like the super league" 3 teams get promoted every year which means any team can play in it and no one is safe. Which was the main problem people had with the SL, a lot of punters said it was less about the money and more about the death of competition. But aye I hate it how football before 92 is almost treat like it doesn't count

A player who everyone thought would flop but became amazing. Could be a 7 or 11

Who also got recommendations for this video ever since the European Super League news in 2021?

Fantastic video! Do one on the European Cup to Champions League change as well as one on the UEFA Cup Winners Cup

Records like: premier league top scorer and premier league top appearance maker are useful statistics as they help modernise the records to keep up with what is arguably the most difficult era of english football

Nice capture of Peter Shilton with a Southampton Air Florida kit on too....Now there is a story within itself!

Here he is answering all my football questions

I can't believe a life league game wasn't broadcasted between 1960 and 1983. That's mad! Things which we take for granted now

Fantastic video👏👏👏👏

You could make a similar video on the name change of the European Cup to the Champions League around the same time too and the impact its had.

Sounds like American football. When the AFL & NFL merged in the 60's, the Super Bowl era began & all previous history was erased.

Great video. Novel concept. Making the top believe that the teams at the bottom of the foundation are worth the investment. Look I am a American who loves all America sports. But when I was introduced to soccer in the mid 1990’s I feel in love with the relegation formula. I still wish there was more playoff Football (soccer) in England because those games are intense. Plus I can root for whoever I like ..My favorite teams are Dortmund in Germany. in England I like Blackburn Rovers, Leeds, Chelsea, Leicester City, Brentford, Derby, Sheffield Wednesday, ect, ect..I am sure I like others !! Poor Bolton In the Premier League from 1995 to 2012. Adrift in the Champions League from 2012-2016. Relegated to League one in the 2016-17 season. Back up for 2 years. Back down. Now holy crap smashed down to League Two. I feel bad for the fans who root for clubs like this who have bad owners like the NFL club I root for. (Lions) I hope they get new owners to help them. I just really enjoy watching the game. Brentford vs Fulham should be a fun match to watch next week. Winning team sure gets a piece of the EPL pie !

Day 33: every scorer of the 2010 World Cup, what happened next?

Wait that trophy Leeds lifted after the Charlton game to celebrate winning the second tier, is the same one they lifted in 92 to celebrate being champions of England?!

1:52 That was an interesting development I did not see coming.

This is on my recommended now, you really foreshadowed this Alfie 😂

Here in North America, we often dismiss older championships as well. But at least here it sort of makes sense, because leagues are constantly adding new teams (for example, my favourite hockey club last won a cup in 1967 when there were only 6 teams participating and now in the same league there are 31 with a 32nd coming in 2021.) Adding new clubs is a business decision for sure much like the premier league breaking away would've been, but it also heavily impacts what everyone's season because now you have to play double/triple/whatever else amount of teams than you would've just a few seasons prior. With the premier league, it literally was just "hey let's make more TV money" and everyone decided "yup. This is when football is born

well made video. Well said.

And history repeats in 2021

1992 is a landmark year in global football and not just the premier league. The abolition of the back pass in 1992 has changed football for the better, making it a much more exciting game.

Yeah but they actually measure soccer leagues in 'Blink 182 lifetimes', so it makes sense.

0:26 That description is brilliant

I feel like you could make the same video about the super league

PL also formed because teams were losing players to Italy and Spain due to European bans. Sure EFL has not been awash with cash but that's down to finanical mismanagement and ITV digital collapse in the 2000s.

You should do a video on how much a goal cost in each major league relative to the average salaries. like you could base it off the top scorers in each league possibly or the highest paid idk.

Hopefully the people who think they “saved football” by stopping the ESL give this a watch 😂

Great video, is a situation this country and the people in control will inevitably have to deal with in the future.

It's very disappointing when you know for sure that the big 6 clubs are gonna stay up and there will be no surprise 😕

"A house of cards crumbling at the seams" - that mixed metaphor hurt me

Ghislsnie maxwell shocked me

In 1992, the 1st division and european cup were rebranded into the premier league and champions league mainly because of, as you even stated, money. 1992 also just happened to be the year Man Utd won their 1st of 13 premier league titles meaning Man Utds domination over english football began when football became about money. [Insert The Incredibles 'Coincidence, I think not!' Meme]

This is the best and most unbiased documentary that outlines how the Premier League was created and why. The Premier League is destroying the small clubs outside of the top flight. It's ironic that it's Man City that were against the structure as it didn't give all the clubs an even split.

Yay great video

I prefer your documentary style videos. Wish they got more videos.

i prefer the old system tbh even though i was born in 1990 i think there were some great football league clubs look at bury and Rushden and diamonds and the old Wimbledon

0:32 - that rarest of pics. A young(ish) looking Macca! What a legend. Sparky is as well I suppose.

Although I'm against the super League, this video shows the hypocrisy in football. UEFA is fighting for the ucl but it's not to save the game but it is to get money. Same reasons why the premier league was formed. It's all about money.

Last league we won, 91/92 season. Oh wait we just won the championship and back in the big time !!! #ALAW #MOT

Great video. Not same as Super League because plenty of teams have gone up and down the pyramid since the Prem was created. And I for one am happy that most games are televised now.

Very relevant today

5:06 that's not right the Prem was called the Premiership from 1996 to 2007 it wasn't just a quick change

Great video but the amount of ads is insane.

Video idea : Whatever happened to every single player that were on the " A Whole New Ball Game " promotional poster PS Awesome video btw , I always wondered why the Premier League statisticians never mentioned pre-1992 stats

Could you please take a look at the situation in Bulgarian football where there're 2 CSKAs in the first division now?

I have a feeling hitc sevens was a teacher before he became a youtuber

Day 71: XI of most own goals since 2010/of all time

It was all about money but the crazy thing was that first premier league season wasn’t sponsored!! 92/93 was just called the FA premier league. 93/94 was the carling premier league.