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A sports league is a group of individual athletes, sports teams or clubs who form a league to compete against each other and gain points in a specific sport.At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete periodically, at its most complex, it can be an international professional league making large amounts of money and involving dozens ...
A tournament-match (or tie or fixture or heat) may involve one or more game-matches (or rubbers or legs) and if necessary one or more tiebreak-matches between the competitors. For example, in the Davis Cup tennis tournament, a tie between two nations involves five rubbers between the nations' players. The team that wins the most rubbers wins ...
LoL Secondary Pro League 2nd (professional) China: Shanghai: 2014: 2017: 16: LPL Promotion LoL Development League LJL Challenger Series 2nd (semi-professional) Japan: 2014 2018 6 LJL Promotion LJL Academy League LJL Academy League 2nd (academy) Japan: various 2019 2023 8 N/A Pacific Challengers League (merged) League Championship Series
The UEFA Nations League is an international football competition played by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body. [1] The first tournament began in September 2018. The four group winners from League A qualified for the finals, played in Portugal in June 2019
The game serves as the final of the College Football Playoff, a bracket tournament between the top four teams in the country as determined by a selection committee, which was established as a successor to the Bowl Championship Series and its similar BCS National Championship Game. Unlike the BCS championship, the participating teams in the ...
Professional sports leagues are organized in numerous ways. The two most significant types are one that developed in Europe, characterized by a tiered structure using promotion and relegation in order to determine participation in a hierarchy of leagues or divisions, and a North American originated model characterized by its use of franchises, closed memberships, and minor leagues.
LIDOM (Baseball Winter League in the Dominican Republic) plays an 18-fold round robin as a semi final tournament between four classified teams. Group tournaments rankings usually go by number of matches won and drawn, with any of a variety of tiebreaker criteria. Frequently, pool stages within a wider tournament are conducted on a round-robin ...
The Apertura [apeɾˈtuɾa] and Clausura [klawˈsuɾa] tournaments is a split season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues.It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American football leagues in which the traditional association football season from August to May is divided in two sections per season, each with its own champion.