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Which league had the most Champions League wins between 1992 and 2013?
La Liga
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Which league had the second most Champions League wins between 1992 and 2013?
Serie A
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Which league had only three Champions League wins between 1992 and 2013?
Bundesliga
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What are the Premier League's revenues for 2009-10?
total club revenues of €2.48 billion in 2009–10.
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What were some of the reasons for the increased revenues in 2013-14?
the Premier League had net profits in excess of Β£78 million, exceeding all other football leagues
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Which award did the Premier League win in 2010?
In 2010 the Premier League was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category
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Why did it receive this award?
for its outstanding contribution to international trade and the value it brings to English football and the United Kingdom's broadcasting industry.
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What were the Premier League's net profits in 2013-14?
the Premier League had net profits in excess of Β£78 million, exceeding all other football leagues
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Which league has the highest revenue in the world?
Premier League
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What were the total revenues of the Premier League in the 2009-10 season?
€2.48 billion
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What were the net profits of the Premier League in 2013-14?
Β£78 million
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In which year was the Premier League awarded an International Trade award?
2010
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When was Swansea City's home match played against Wigan Athletic?
Swansea City's home match at the Liberty Stadium against Wigan Athletic on 20 August 2011.
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Did Swansea qualify for the Europa Leaque in 2012-13?
In 2012–13, Swansea qualified for the Europa League
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How did Swansea qualify for the Europa League?
Swansea qualified for the Europa League by winning the League Cup.
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In 2013-14, how much did the Premier League's Welsh clubs increase by?
The number of Welsh clubs in the Premier League increased to two for the first time in 2013–14,
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Which team gained promotion then but was relegated after its first season?
in 2013–14, as Cardiff City gained promotion, but Cardiff City was relegated after its maiden season.
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In which year did a Welsh club participate in the Premier League for the first time?
2011
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Which team was promoted to the Premier League in 2011?
Swansea City
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In which stadium was the first Premier League match played outside of England?
Liberty Stadium
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On which date did Swansea City play its first Premier League game?
20 August 2011
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Against which team did Swansea City play its first Premier League game?
Wigan Athletic
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Are there any clubs Scotland or Ireland in the Premier League?
Participation in the Premier League by some Scottish or Irish clubs has sometimes been discussed, but without result.
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Which team received permission to move to Dublin, Ireland in 1998?
in 1998, when Wimbledon received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin, Ireland,
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Why didn't they move to Dublin?
the move was blocked by the Football Association of Ireland.
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What are Scotland's two largest teams?
Scotland's two biggest teams, Celtic and Rangers,
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Which team received Premier League approval to relocate to Dublin?
Wimbledon
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In which year did a Premier League team consider relocating to Ireland?
1998
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Who occasionally discusses a Scottish team joining the Premier League?
the media
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Who received broadcasting rights to the Premier League in 1992?
The League's decision to assign broadcasting rights to BSkyB in 1992
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Why was this a unique decision?
pay television was an almost untested proposition in the UK market,
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What happened to the Premier League's televsion rights after this decision?
the value of the Premier League's TV rights soar.
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What was the cause of this?
a combination of Sky's strategy, the quality of Premier League football and the public's appetite for the game
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In which year did the Premier League decide to give BSkyB broadcasting rights?
1992
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What sort of television was BSkyB that made it such a radical broadcaster to choose for the Premier League?
pay television
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Do European Leagues sell their television rights per a collective level?
other European Leagues, including La Liga, in which each club sells its rights individually
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What happens when European Leagues sell their televsion rights individually?
a much higher share of the total income going to the top few clubs
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How is the teleivsion revenue distributed in the Premier League?
The money is divided into three parts:
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How is half of the money distributed?
half is divided equally between the clubs
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How is the final quarter of the money distributed?
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.
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On what sort of basis does the Premier League sell its television rights?
collective basis
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How does La Liga sell its broadcasting rights?
individually
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Which clubs get the greatest share of broadcasting income when rights are sold individually?
the top few clubs
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What percentage of broadcasting revenue is divided equally by all La Liga clubs?
half
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What percentage of broadcasting revenue is awarded on a merit basis according to ranking at the end of the season?
one quarter
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How much was the amount of first five seasons of the Sky television rights?
The first Sky television rights agreement was worth Β£304 million over five seasons.
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How much many did the Premier League make from selling its internation rights during 2004-07?
The league brought in Β£320 million from the sale of its international rights for the three-year period from 2004–05 to 2006–07
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What happened to Sky's agreement in 2006.
Sky's monopoly was broken from August 2006 when Setanta Sports was awarded rights to show two out of the six packages of matches available.
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Why did this happen?
This occurred following an insistence by the European Commission that exclusive rights should not be sold to one television company.
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What was the average income from media from 2007-2010 for the Premier League?
giving Premier League clubs an average media income from league games of around Β£40 million-a-year from 2007 to 2010.
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How many seasons did the first television rights contract award to Sky?
five
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How much was the first television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Β£304 million
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How much was the second television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Β£670 million
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How much was the third television rights contract awarded to Sky worth?
Β£1.024 billion
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By being awarded television rights, which other network broke Sky's monopoly on Premier League coverage?
Setanta Sports
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Why has there been a several court cases against Sky and Premier League?
The TV rights agreement between the Premier League and Sky has faced accusations of being a cartel
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What did the Office of Fair Trading decide regarding the claim that Sky abuses their position in 2002.
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
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Who investigated the Premier League's collective selling rights in 1999?
In July 1999 the Premier League's method of selling rights collectively for all member clubs was investigated by the UK Restrictive Practices Court,
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What did they decide about the collective selling issue?
the UK Restrictive Practices Court, who concluded that the agreement was not contrary to the public interest.
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What has the agreement between the Premier League and Sky been accused of being?
a cartel
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Who investigated the agreement between the Premier League and Sky in 2002?
the Office of Fair Trading
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Who investigated how the Premier League sold television rights in 1999?
the UK Restrictive Practices Court
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How much money did Premier League earn regarding television rights in 2010-13?
Television rights alone for the period 2010 to 2013 have been purchased for Β£1.782 billion.
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How many games did BT show in 2013-16?
BT had been awarded 38 games a season for the 2013–14 through 2015–16 seasons at Β£246 million-a-year.
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Who will show 116 games for that same time period?
The remaining 116 games were retained by Sky who paid Β£760 million-a-year.
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How much have the domestic televsion rights increased from 2010-12 to 2012-13?
The total domestic rights have raised Β£3.018 billion, an increase of 70.2% over the 2010–11 to 2012–13 rights.
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How much did BT and Sky pay for their rights up to the 2018-19 season?
Sky and BT paid a total of Β£5.136 billion to renew their contracts with the Premier League for another three years up to the 2018–19 season.
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When will the BBC's weekend highlights package run out?
2016
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How much were Premier League television rights from 2010 to 2013 purchased for?
Β£1.782 billion
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When did Setanta Sports fail to meet their payments deadline?
22 June 2009
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When Setanta Sports could not pay their bill to the league, which network took over broadcast rights from them?
ESPN
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On which date was it announced that BT was awarded a broadcasting contract?
13 June 2012
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What country is the Premier League the most distributed televised sports broadcast?
The Premier League is particularly popular in Asia, where it is the most widely distributed sports programme
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Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in India?
In India, the matches are broadcast live on STAR Sports. In China
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Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in China?
In China, the broadcast rights were awarded to Super Sports in a six-year agreement that began in the 2013–14 season.
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Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in Canada?
As of the 2013–14 season, Canadian broadcast rights to the Premier League are jointly owned by Sportsnet and TSN
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How many games does each of them broadcast?
both rival networks holding rights to 190 matches per season.
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On which continent other than Europe is the Premier League especially popular?
Asia
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Which network is the main live broadcaster of Premier League in Australia?
Fox Sports
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Which network in Australia offers viewers the choice of which Saturday afternoon match they watch?
Foxtel
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Which network broadcasts Premier League live in India?
STAR Sports
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Which Chinese broadcaster has Premier League rights?
Super Sports
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Who broadcasts the Premier League's games in the United States?
The Premier League is broadcast in the United States through NBC Sports.
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What was the average viewership in the United States during the 2014-15 season?
with NBC and NBCSN averaging a record 479,000 viewers in the 2014–15 season
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How many years did NBC Sports receive an extension for with the Premier League in 2015?
NBC Sports reached a six-year extension with the Premier League in 2015
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What was the value of this extension?
in a deal valued at $1 billion (Β£640 million).
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When will this extension end?
through the 2021–22 season
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Which American broadcaster shows the Premier League currently?
NBC Sports
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By what percentage has viewership in the US risen from 2012 to 2015?
118%
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How many viewers on average watched the Premier League 2014-15 season in the US?
479,000
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In which year did NBC Sports secure an extension of six years with the Premier League?
2015
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How much was the NBC broadcasting deal with the Premier League worth in 2015?
$1 billion
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Why has their been distance between the Premier League and the Football League?
in large part to the disparity in revenue from television rights between the leagues,
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Did many new teams in the Premier League have any difficulties in their initial season?
many newly promoted teams have found it difficult to avoid relegation in their first season in the Premier League.
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Was it unusual for a new team to go back to the Football League after 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.
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In the 1997-98 season how many new teams had to go back to the Football League?
In 1997–98 all three promoted clubs were relegated at the end of the season.
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Due to the disparity in television rights revenue between leagues, who struggles to avoid relegation in their Premier League first season?
newly promoted teams
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In every season but 2001-02 and 2011-12, at least how many Premier League teams have been relegated?
one
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How many newly promoted clubs were relegated from the Premier League in 1997-98?
three
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If a team is relegated in the Premier League what type of tv payment do they receive?
The Premier League distributes a portion of its television revenue to clubs that are relegated from the league in the form of "parachute payments".
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