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27 September 2001 – Michael Owen signs a new four-year contract with Liverpool, with a £70,000 weekly wage making him the most highly paid player in the club's history. [4] 29 September 2001 – Tottenham Hotspur surrender a 3–0 home lead over Manchester United in the FA Premier League and end up losing the game 5–3.
Jaap Bulder, 1919–20 Netherlands Football League Championship for Be Quick; Archie Stark, 1924–25 American Soccer League for Bethlehem Steel; Most international club goals scored in a football season: 17 [30] Daniel Onega, 1965–66; Stéphane Guivarc'h, 1997–98 [note 14] Radamel Falcao, 2010–11; Lionel Messi, 2011–12 [note 15]
List of English football champions Football League First Division (1888–1992) Premier League (1992–present) Leicester City celebrate winning the 2015–16 Premier League Country England Founded 1888 Number of teams 24 winners Current champions Manchester City (2023–24) Most successful club Manchester United (20 championships) The English football champions are the winners of the top ...
The purpose of the salary cap is to prevent the team's owners from unsustainable spending on player salaries and to prevent a competitive imbalance among teams. [54] The salary cap survived a legal challenge by the players in the Fraser v. Major League Soccer lawsuit. The 2017 salary cap increased to $3.845 million per team.
The Big Ten has undergone a drastic transformation over the past three decades. What was, true to its name, a 10-team league for 40 years expanded to 11 when it added Penn State in 1990.It was ...
The rival All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and American Football League (AFL) have since merged with the NFL (the only two AAFC teams that currently exist, the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the NFL in 1950), but AAFC Championship Games and records are not included in the NFL's record books.
No side could displace Real Madrid, who remain top of football's financial rankings for the third year running after seeing their revenues leap 20% to €351.8 million during the 2006–07 season. Manchester United displaced Barcelona in second place, the Spanish club moving down to third.
On 16 March 2010, npower were announced as the new title sponsors of the Football League, and from the start of the 2010–11 Football League season until the end of the 2012–13 season, the Football League Championship was known as the Npower Championship. [15] Crystal Palace became the second Championship club to enter administration in 2010 ...