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Participation in the Premier League by some Scottish or Irish clubs has sometimes been discussed, but without result. The idea came closest to reality in 1998, when Wimbledon received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin, Ireland, but the move was blocked by the Football Association of Ireland. Additionally, the media occasionally discusses the idea that Scotland's two biggest teams, Celtic and Rangers, should or will take part in the Premier League, but nothing has come of these discussions.

Question: Which team received permission to move to Dublin, Ireland in 1998?
Answer: in 1998, when Wimbledon received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin, Ireland,

Question: Are there any clubs Scotland or Ireland in the Premier League?
Answer: Participation in the Premier League by some Scottish or Irish clubs has sometimes been discussed, but without result.

Question: What are Scotland's two largest teams?
Answer: Scotland's two biggest teams, Celtic and Rangers,

Question: Why didn't they move to Dublin?
Answer: the move was blocked by the Football Association of Ireland.

Question: Which team received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin?
Answer: Wimbledon

Question: In which year did a Premier League team consider relocating to Ireland?
Answer: 1998

Question: Who occasionally discusses a Scottish team joining the Premier League?
Answer: the media
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Television has played a major role in the history of the Premier League. The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992 was at the time a radical decision, but one that has paid off. At the time pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market, as was charging fans to watch live televised football. However, a combination of Sky's strategy, the quality of Premier League football and the public's appetite for the game has seen the value of the Premier League's TV rights soar.

Question: Who received broadcasting rights to the Premier League in 1992?
Answer: The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992

Question: Why was this a unique decision?
Answer: pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market,

Question: What happened to the Premier League's televsion rights after this decision?
Answer: the value of the Premier League's TV rights soar.

Question: What was the cause of this?
Answer: a combination of Sky's strategy, the quality of Premier League football and the public's appetite for the game

Question: In which year did the Premier League decide to give BSkyB broadcasting rights?
Answer: 1992

Question: What sort of television was BSkyB that made it such a radical broadcaster to choose for the Premier League?
Answer: pay television
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The Premier League sells its television rights on a collective basis. This is in contrast to some other European Leagues, including La Liga, in which each club sells its rights individually, leading to a much higher share of the total income going to the top few clubs. The money is divided into three parts: half is divided equally between the clubs; one quarter is awarded on a merit basis based on final league position, the top club getting twenty times as much as the bottom club, and equal steps all the way down the table; the final quarter is paid out as facilities fees for games that are shown on television, with the top clubs generally receiving the largest shares of this. The income from overseas rights is divided equally between the twenty clubs.

Question: Do European Leagues sell their television rights per a collective level?
Answer: other European Leagues, including La Liga, in which each club sells its rights individually

Question: What happens when European Leagues sell their televsion rights individually?
Answer: a much higher share of the total income going to the top few clubs

Question: How is the teleivsion revenue distributed in the Premier League?
Answer: The money is divided into three parts:

Question: How is half of the money distributed?
Answer: half is divided equally between the clubs

Question: How is the final quarter of the money distributed?
Answer: the final quarter is paid out as facilities fees for games that are shown on television, with the top clubs generally receiving the largest shares of this.

Question: On what sort of basis does the Premier League sell its television rights?
Answer: collective basis

Question: How does La Liga sell its broadcasting rights?
Answer: individually

Question: Which clubs get the greatest share of broadcasting income when rights are sold individually?
Answer: the top few clubs

Question: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is divided equally by all La Liga clubs?
Answer: half

Question: What percentage of broadcasting revenue is awarded on a merit basis according to ranking at the end of the season?
Answer: one quarter
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The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel, and a number of court cases have arisen as a result. An investigation by the Office of Fair Trading in 2002 found BSkyB to be dominant within the pay TV sports market, but concluded that there were insufficient grounds for the claim that BSkyB had abused its dominant position. In July 1999 the Premier League's method of selling rights collectively for all member clubs was investigated by the UK Restrictive Practices Court, who concluded that the agreement was not contrary to the public interest.

Question: Why has there been a several court cases against Sky and Premier League?
Answer: The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel

Question: What did the Office of Fair Trading decide regarding the claim that Sky abuses their position in 2002.
Answer: Office of Fair Trading in 2002 found BSkyB to be dominant within the pay TV sports market, but concluded that there were insufficient grounds for the claim

Question: Who investigated the Premier League's collective selling rights in 1999?
Answer: In July 1999 the Premier League's method of selling rights collectively for all member clubs was investigated by the UK Restrictive Practices Court,

Question: What did they decide about the collective selling issue?
Answer: the UK Restrictive Practices Court, who concluded that the agreement was not contrary to the public interest.

Question: What has the agreement between the Premier League and Sky been accused of being?
Answer: a cartel

Question: Who investigated the agreement between the Premier League and Sky in 2002?
Answer: the Office of Fair Trading

Question: Who investigated how the Premier League sold television rights in 1999?
Answer: the UK Restrictive Practices Court
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The BBC's highlights package on Saturday and Sunday nights, as well as other evenings when fixtures justify, will run until 2016. Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion. On 22 June 2009, due to troubles encountered by Setanta Sports after it failed to meet a final deadline over a £30 million payment to the Premier League, ESPN was awarded two packages of UK rights containing a total of 46 matches that were available for the 2009–10 season as well as a package of 23 matches per season from 2010–11 to 2012–13. On 13 June 2012, the Premier League announced that BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at £246 million-a-year. The remaining 116 games were retained by Sky who paid £760 million-a-year. The total domestic rights have raised £3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 2010–11 to 2012–13 rights. The value of the licensing deal rose by another 70.2% in 2015, when Sky and BT paid a total of £5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 2018–19 season.

Question: How much money did Premier League earn regarding television rights in 2010-13?
Answer: Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for £1.782 billion.

Question: How many games did BT show in 2013-16?
Answer: BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at £246 million-a-year.

Question: Who will show 116 games for that same time period?
Answer: The remaining 116 games were retained by Sky who paid £760 million-a-year.

Question: How much have the domestic televsion rights increased from 2010-12 to 2012-13?
Answer: The total domestic rights have raised £3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 2010–11 to 2012–13 rights.

Question: How much did BT and Sky pay for their rights up to the 2018-19 season?
Answer: Sky and BT paid a total of £5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 2018–19 season.

Question: When will the BBC's weekend highlights package run out?
Answer: 2016

Question: How much were Premier League television rights from 2010 to 2013 purchased for?
Answer: £1.782 billion

Question: When did Setanta Sports fail to meet their payments deadline?
Answer: 22 June 2009

Question: When Setanta Sports could not pay their bill to the league, which network took over broadcast rights from them?
Answer: ESPN

Question: On which date was it announced that BT was awarded a broadcasting contract?
Answer: 13 June 2012
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The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme. In Australia, Fox Sports broadcasts almost all of the season's 380 matches live, and Foxtel gives subscribers the option of selecting which Saturday 3pm match to watch. In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season. As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN, with both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.

Question: What country is the Premier League the most distributed televised sports broadcast?
Answer: The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in India?
Answer: In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in China?
Answer: In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season.

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in Canada?
Answer: As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN

Question: How many games does each of them broadcast?
Answer: both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.

Question: On which continent other than Europe is the Premier League especially popular?
Answer: Asia

Question: Which network is the main live broadcaster of Premier League in Australia?
Answer: Fox Sports

Question: Which network in Australia offers viewers the choice of which Saturday afternoon match they watch?
Answer: Foxtel

Question: Which network broadcasts Premier League live in India?
Answer: STAR Sports

Question: Which Chinese broadcaster has Premier League rights?
Answer: Super Sports
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The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports. Premier League viewership has increased rapidly, with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season, up 118% from 2012–13 when coverage still aired on Fox Soccer and ESPN/ESPN2 (220,000 viewers), and NBC Sports has been widely praised for its coverage. NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015 to broadcast the league through the 2021–22 season in a deal valued at $1 billion (£640 million).

Question: Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in the United States?
Answer: The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports.

Question: What was the average viewership in the United States during the 2014-15 season?
Answer: with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season

Question: How many years did NBC Sports receive an extension for with the Premier League in 2015?
Answer: NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015

Question: What was the value of this extension?
Answer: in a deal valued at $1 billion (£640 million).

Question: When will this extension end?
Answer: through the 2021–22 season

Question: Which American broadcaster shows the Premier League currently?
Answer: NBC Sports

Question: By what percentage has viewership in the US risen from 2012 to 2015?
Answer: 118%

Question: How many viewers on average watched the Premier League 2014-15 season in the US?
Answer: 479,000

Question: In which year did NBC Sports secure an extension of six years with the Premier League?
Answer: 2015

Question: How much was the NBC broadcasting deal with the Premier League worth in 2015?
Answer: $1 billion
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There has been an increasing gulf between the Premier League and the Football League. Since its split with the Football League, many established clubs in the Premier League have managed to distance themselves from their counterparts in lower leagues. Owing in large part to the disparity in revenue from television rights between the leagues, many newly promoted teams have found it difficult to avoid relegation in their first season in the Premier League. In every season except 2001–02 and 2011–12, at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back to the Football League. In 1997–98 all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.

Question: Why has their been distance between the Premier League and the Football League?
Answer: in large part to the disparity in revenue from television rights between the leagues,

Question: Did many new teams in the Premier League have any difficulties in their initial season?
Answer: many newly promoted teams have found it difficult to avoid relegation in their first season in the Premier League.

Question: Was it unusual for a new team to go back to the Football League after their first season in the Premier League?
Answer: In every season except 2001–02 and 2011–12, at least one Premier League newcomer has been relegated back to the Football League.

Question: In the 1997-98 season how many new teams had to go back to the Football League?
Answer: In 1997–98 all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.

Question: Due to the disparity in television rights revenue between leagues, who struggles to avoid relegation in their Premier League first season?
Answer: newly promoted teams

Question: In every season but 2001-02 and 2011-12, at least how many Premier League teams have been relegated?
Answer: one

Question: How many newly promoted clubs were relegated from the Premier League in 1997-98?
Answer: three
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The Premier League distributes a portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments". Starting with the 2013–14 season, these payments are in excess of £60 million over four seasons. Though designed to help teams adjust to the loss of television revenues (the average Premier League team receives £55 million while the average Football League Championship club receives £2 million), critics maintain that the payments actually widen the gap between teams that have reached the Premier League and those that have not, leading to the common occurrence of teams "bouncing back" soon after their relegation. For some clubs who have failed to win immediate promotion back to the Premier League, financial problems, including in some cases administration or even liquidation have followed. Further relegations down the footballing ladder have ensued for several clubs unable to cope with the gap.

Question: If a team is relegated in the Premier League what type of tv payment do they receive?
Answer: The Premier League distributes a portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments".

Question: What do critics have to say about this payment?
Answer: critics maintain that the payments actually widen the gap between teams that have reached the Premier League and those that have not,

Question: What has happened to some of the clubs who weren't able to get back into the Premier League right away?
Answer: financial problems

Question: How much does a Football League club receive on average for their television revenues?
Answer: the average Football League Championship club receives £2 million

Question: How does this compare an average Premier League team?
Answer: the average Premier League team receives £55 million

Question: To which type of team are parachute payments distributed to in the Premier League?
Answer: relegated

Question: Starting in the 2013-14 season, parachute payments are in excess of what amount of revenue?
Answer: £60 million

Question: What is said to widen between clubs who reach the Premier League and those who do not thanks to parachute payments?
Answer: the gap
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As of the 2015–16 season, Premier League football has been played in 53 stadiums since the formation of the Premier League in 1992. The Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the subsequent Taylor Report saw a recommendation that standing terraces should be abolished; as a result all stadiums in the Premier League are all-seater. Since the formation of the Premier League, football grounds in England have seen constant improvements to capacity and facilities, with some clubs moving to new-build stadiums. Nine stadiums that have seen Premier League football have now been demolished. The stadiums for the 2010–11 season show a large disparity in capacity: Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United has a capacity of 75,957 with Bloomfield Road, the home of Blackpool, having a capacity of 16,220. The combined total capacity of the Premier League in the 2010–11 season is 770,477 with an average capacity of 38,523.

Question: What was the result of their recommendation?
Answer: as a result all stadiums in the Premier League are all-seater

Question: What did the Taylor Report recommend at the the Hillsborough disaster in 1989?
Answer: a recommendation that standing terraces should be abolished

Question: How many stadiums have been closed down since Premier League started?
Answer: Nine stadiums that have seen Premier League football have now been demolished.

Question: What was the total seating capacity of stadiums in the Premier League in the 2010-11 season.
Answer: The combined total capacity of the Premier League in the 2010–11 season is 770,477 with an average capacity of 38,523.

Question: In how many stadiums had Premier League been played as of the 2015-16 season?
Answer: 53

Question: What did the Taylor Report recommend to abolish from all stadiums?
Answer: standing terraces

Question: How many stadiums in which the Premier League has been played have been demolished as of 2016?
Answer: Nine

Question: What is the capacity of Bloomfield Road stadium?
Answer: 16,220

Question: What is the combined total capacity of all stadiums in the Premier League as of 2011?
Answer: 770,477
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Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for Premier League clubs. For the 2009–10 season, average attendances across the league clubs were 34,215 for Premier League matches with a total aggregate attendance figure of 13,001,616. This represents an increase of 13,089 from the average attendance of 21,126 recorded in the league's first season (1992–93). However, during the 1992–93 season the capacities of most stadiums were reduced as clubs replaced terraces with seats in order to meet the Taylor Report's 1994–95 deadline for all-seater stadiums. The Premier League's record average attendance of 36,144 was set during the 2007–08 season. This record was then beaten in the 2013–14 season recording an average attendance of 36,695 with a total attendance of just under 14 million, the highest average in England's top flight since 1950.

Question: Are attendance remittances that important to the Premier League?
Answer: Stadium attendances are a significant source of regular income for Premier League clubs.

Question: What was the Premier Leagues standard attendance in the 2007-08 season?
Answer: The Premier League's record average attendance of 36,144 was set during the 2007–08 season.

Question: What was the league's first year attendance average?
Answer: the average attendance of 21,126 recorded in the league's first season (1992–93).

Question: Attendance for the 2013-14 season set a new record of how much?
Answer: in the 2013–14 season recording an average attendance of 36,695 with a total attendance of just under 14 million,

Question: What was the average attendance for all Premier League clubs during the 2009-10 season?
Answer: 34,215

Question: What was the total attendance of all Premier League games during the 2009-10 season?
Answer: 13,001,616

Question: By how many attendees did the average Premier League attendance increase between 1992 and 2009?
Answer: 13,089

Question: For when did the Taylor Report set the deadline for replacing terraces with seats in stadiums?
Answer: 1994–95

Question: During which season did the Premier League set a record average attendance of over 36,000 people?
Answer: 2007–08
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Managers in the Premier League are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection, and player acquisition. Their influence varies from club-to-club and is related to the ownership of the club and the relationship of the manager with fans. Managers are required to have a UEFA Pro Licence which is the final coaching qualification available, and follows the completion of the UEFA 'B' and 'A' Licences. The UEFA Pro Licence is required by every person who wishes to manage a club in the Premier League on a permanent basis (i.e. more than 12 weeks – the amount of time an unqualified caretaker manager is allowed to take control). Caretaker appointments are managers that fill the gap between a managerial departure and a new appointment. Several caretaker managers have gone on to secure a permanent managerial post after performing well as a caretaker; examples include Paul Hart at Portsmouth and David Pleat at Tottenham Hotspur.

Question: What are some of the every day tasks that a manager of a team has to deal with?
Answer: Managers in the Premier League are involved in the day-to-day running of the team, including the training, team selection, and player acquisition.

Question: What type of licence does a manager need?
Answer: Managers are required to have a UEFA Pro Licence

Question: Is this licence required on a permanent basis?
Answer: The UEFA Pro Licence is required by every person who wishes to manage a club in the Premier League on a permanent basis

Question: Give an example of someone who was a caretaker manager?
Answer: examples include Paul Hart at Portsmouth and David Pleat at Tottenham Hotspur.

Question: What is a caretaker manager?
Answer: Caretaker appointments are managers that fill the gap between a managerial departure and a new appointment.

Question: What license are managers in the Premier League required to hold?
Answer: UEFA Pro Licence

Question: Which licence follows completion of both the UEFA B and A licences?
Answer: UEFA Pro Licence

Question: For how long at most is an unlicenced caretaker manager allowed to control a Premier League team for?
Answer: 12 weeks

Question: Which caretaker manager was later promoted to permanent manager at Portsmouth?
Answer: Paul Hart

Question: Which caretaker manager was later promoted to permanent manager at Tottenham Hotspur?
Answer: David Pleat