Premier League

In nineteen ninety-two, twenty-two English football clubs broke away from the Football League to form the Premier League. The first television deal was worth one hundred and ninety-one million pounds. The clubs didn't just want more money — they wanted control of the broadcast rights. The old league distributed revenue poorly. The breakaway was a business restructuring disguised as sport. By twenty twenty-five, the domestic television deal alone reached six point seven billion pounds. Revenue splits follow a formula: fifty percent divided equally, twenty-five percent based on where you finish, twenty-five percent based on how often you're televised. Every club gets enough to compete. No team gets so much they can't be caught.