When it comes to modern football, the eyes of the world cannot avoid the five major leagues in Europe - the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, Serie A and the Ligue 1, whether it is exposure, competitive strength or gold absorption ability, these five major leagues are at the peak of world football. However, although the league level in other regions is not comparable to them at all, the first league battle around them has never stopped. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Serie A is still at the end of the peak, when they are the strong contenders of the first league, and after entering the second decade, Spanish football has flourished with the rise of Real Madrid and Barca, La Liga almost monopolized the important honor of European football in this period, but as Real Madrid Barca gradually declined, the Giant Teams represented by Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea in the Premier League began to rise, and a large amount of capital investment made countless top players pour into this most commercial league. In the past two years, the Premier League has greatly replaced the La Liga champions in the first league. The question worth pondering is how did the Premier League reverse its decline step by step, surpassing its opponents to become the recognized first league?
Capital input and output are the first in Europe, and the Premier League business model has natural advantages
In addition to the main five leagues that are well known to fans, there are actually many competitive leagues in Europe, and although the overall level cannot be compared with the five major leagues, the level of league leaders is also not inferior to some big teams, such as the Dutch League with Ajax and Eindhoven, the Portuguese Super League with Porto, Portuguese Sports and Benfica, and the Soviet Super League with Celtic and Glasgow Rovers, in front of them, Paris Saint-Germain's Ligue 1 league is actually not much of a bargain either. However, these leagues are far less well-known in the country than the big five leagues, or even the J And K Leagues held by our neighbors, because the commercial influence is too low. In most Asian countries, the Portuguese Super League and the Dutch First Division do not have official broadcast channels, so the income and influence obtained are much weaker than the five major leagues, and correspondingly, the competitiveness cannot be compared with the five major leagues with deep pockets, which is a reasonable thing.
Within the five major leagues, there is also a huge gap in capital input and output, taking deloitte, one of the world's four largest accounting firms, released the 2019/20 European football financial report in July last year as an example, in the 2019/20 season full of epidemics, All teams in the Premier League have generated a total revenue of 5.134 billion euros, the best in European and even world football, in contrast, the second-ranked La Liga and the third-ranked Bundesliga have revenues of 3.208 billion euros and 3.117 billion euros respectively, which is already quite good, the Serie A only earns 2.052 billion euros, and the Ligue 1 is only 1.598 billion euros (of which Paris Saint-Germain still accounts for the majority), basically belonging to the power generation of love, serious losses. From such a serious gap between rich and poor, it is not difficult to see that the Premier League as the most commercialized league, can attract sponsorship, investment is the other four major leagues can not be compared, correspondingly, the Premier League teams can completely convert these income into immediate combat strength, which can also help them continue to optimize the performance, improve income, is a virtuous ecological cycle, coupled with the back of the United Kingdom This huge entertainment market, their business model has a natural advantage, it is no wonder that Florentino from La Liga is jealous , insisting on promoting the European Super League, and has the idea of changing the model of club membership. As for Bayern Munich, which is limited by the Bundesliga's "50+1" policy, in recent years it has also continuously advocated the abolition of this policy to compete with super clubs such as Manchester City and Greater Paris. It is conceivable that the Premier League will continue to be the number one commercial revenue for a long time to come until other leagues make useful commercial models to explore.
Unlike other league giants monopolies, competition within the Premier League is more intense and more ornamental
In the eyes of many La Liga fans, the Premier League is also known as the "League", because the Premier League teams emphasize physical confrontation and scrambling, and cannot be compared with Real Madrid, Barca and other teams in terms of football technology, however, a cruel fact is that even if the players of the Premier League team are indeed not very technically exquisite, the fans who watch the Premier League are still far more than the fans who watch other leagues such as La Liga. For other football leagues, in addition to the local fans from the country, the audiences that can be attracted are all die-hard fans of a specific club, and the popularity of passers-by is basically equivalent to nothing. The fiercely competitive Premier League, in addition to attracting the above two types of fans, can also attract a large number of fans to watch during a large number of strong dialogues, thus further increasing the number of fans, which is difficult to compare with other leagues.
For example, the two most famous games of the la Liga season are the two-legged national derby between Real Madrid and Barca, in addition, whether it is the Madrid derby or the Atletico Barca battle, it seems that the attraction for fans is almost interesting. The same is true in Serie A and the Bundesliga, except for Juventus against Inter, Milan derby and Dortmund Bayern, the appeal of the rest of the matches to unrelated fans is almost zero. For fans, the Premier League basically has heavyweight duels in every round of matches, such as the double red meeting between Manchester United and Liverpool, the Manchester City derby of Manchester United, the North London derby of Arsenal Hotspur, the Chelsea Tottenham Arsenal city showdown, the four major battles that are staged regularly every year, and the liverpool Manchester City red and blue battle that has been on the mainstream stage in recent years. It can be said that the existence of BIG6 makes the Premier League full of so many grudges and ups and downs that other leagues do not have, and the ornamentality brought by these factors makes them destined to be unique in attractiveness.
Competitive sports performance speaks, and the Premier League has stabilized La Liga and Bundesliga into the leading boss in recent years
No matter how much other factors have a big impact on a football league, in the end it still needs to be spoken of by achievements, just like the Chinese Super League in the past few years, the reason why it dares to shout out to the outside world that it aspires to become the sixth largest league in the world is not because of how popular gold dollar football is
It is not about how many big-name foreign aides there are, the most fundamental confidence still comes from the excellent results achieved by Guangzhou Evergrande in the AFC Champions League, and the two AFC Champions League champions during that period seem to have indeed let the outside world see a few phantoms of the sixth league. The reason why the Premier League is widely regarded as the current first league is also the reason. In the first seven or eight years of the second decade of the twenty-first century, except for Bayern Munich, Chelsea and Inter Milan, who were able to win several Champions League titles, the rest of the champions were divided between Real Madrid and Barcelona from La Liga.
Until after 2018, marked by C Ronaldo's departure from Real Madrid, Real Madrid Barca began to decline, in the 2018/19 season, Liverpool from the Premier League won the new Champions League after Three Consecutive Champions League champions of Real Madrid, they defeated Tottenham Hotspur, also from the Premier League, and in the Europa League final that year, the two teams also came from the Premier League, respectively, Chelsea and Arsenal in London, in the end, Chelsea won the championship 4-1. The champions league final has long been held, but it is extremely rare for four teams in the same league to win the final seat on the highest stage of the European competition, which also marks the complete rise of the Premier League. In the 2020/21 season, that is, last season, the Champions League final also staged a Premier League civil war, and finally Chelsea defeated Manchester City, crowning the Champions League for the second time in history, and although the Europa League final did not stage the Premier League derby, it also appeared in the Premier League team, unfortunately, Manchester United lost to Villarreal in the penalty shootout, failed to let both champions come to England, of course, this does not affect the status of the first league of the Premier League. In this season's Champions League top sixteen teams, the Top Four of the Premier League are all listed, except for Chelsea,200 in the last round of the group, Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool are all the top of the group, once again proving the status of the first league of the Premier League, they are now difficult to shake the existence.
conclusion
The premier league is now the world's first league status is all-round, whether in terms of commercial revenue, influence, ornamental or competitive strength, they are ahead of the Bundesliga, Serie A and even La Liga, their operating model not only needs to be learned from other European leagues, our Chinese Super League is also worth learning, maybe one day, we can also reach their level and join the real Super League.