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FA Premier League, AKA The Premiership, Barclays Premiership in the UK, Barclays English Premier League internationally. Formed in 1992 from the top division of The Football League, it is a league for clubs located at the top of the English football league system and is currently contested by twenty clubs. Fun facts: the title was only won by Chelsea, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal and Man Utd. More info
Okay, the reason why I decided to look these things up if because the recent Carling Cup really confuses me. So here we go, Carling Cup
Carling Cup, actually The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup. Only 20 clubs of the Premier League and 72 clubs of the Football League can enter. Single elimination. It’s named after the sponserm thus it’s been changed several times. The winners qualify for the UEFA Cup, if they have not qualified for European competition in some other way.More info
FA Cup, full name The Football Association Challenge Cup, single-elimination tournament run by the Football Association, which is the oldest football competition in the world. The winning team qualifies by right for the first round of the UEFA Cup. If the winners also qualify for the Champions League by merit of league position, the runners-up qualify for the UEFA Cup in their place. If both finalists qualify for the Champions League, an extra UEFA Cup place is given on the basis of Premier League position. More Info
The UEFA Champions League, often called European Cup, organized by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). How to qualify and more info.
UEFA Cup, also organized by UEFA. The second most important European comeptition.
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Premiership teams haven’t been taking the league cup and the FA cup too seriously in the last decade or so.
They may play the ealier rounds with entirely their second squads, and fielding incompletely first teams for the final match. Although at times a club may go all out for a cup if it saw little chance of getting any other trophy that year.
I think ManU started the trend. They started fielding a younger second squad (including a young Beckham) for cup games in the early nineties, and the practice quickly spreaded.
After all, finishing, like, fourth place in the Premiership brings you a lot more financially than winning a cup does. Sad but people are more realistic now.
but isn’t it nice to give younger players some real match experience and at the same time the non-premier league clubs can have some chance of winning.