Premier league soccer which is popularly known as Barclays Premier League is the most lucrative and the most followed football league in England. This league also enjoys the biggest fan following around the globe with die hard fans rooting for their favorite clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Everton, and others which have become household names among football fans around the world.
Considering the vast popularity of this world-wide watched league, it is hard to believe that this English premier league has only completed 18 years in its relatively short history which was kicked off on 15th August 1992. But since then after commencement, there has been no holding back the phenomenal growth of this league which now attracts more than 250 top footballers from around the world. Some of the renowned names playing currently in this league include Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Darren Bent, Frank Lampard, Michel Ballack, Carlos Tevez, Jermain Defoe, Fernando Torres, Francesc Fabregas, Emmanuel Adebayor, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Louis Saha, Dimitar Berbatov, Nicolas Anelka, Andrey Arshavin, Craig Bellamy, John Carew and Carlton Cole, who also top the list of goal scorers in this year’s season of the premier league
Initially, the Premier League was composed of 22 clubs, but after relegation of 4 clubs of which only 2 were promoted the number came down to the original 20 at the end of the 1994/95 season. Some of the prominent clubs of English Premier League include Chelsea, Man United, Arsenal, Man City, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Everton and Fulham. Manchester United or Man-U as it is popularly called is unarguably the most successful team in the history of Premier League with 11 title wins to its name since the EPL began in 1992.
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