The Premier puts on its boots

that the Premier League is the best League of the world is a question that has long ceased to be debatable. Not only because of the way they compete internally. But because, when going out Europethey are putting on their boots. Above all, since the change in the format of the competitions UEFA. And the difference in financial muscle that the middle class of the English championship presents is marking differences that are beginning to seem insurmountable.

Last season, the first with the new formats, the Tottenham was crowned champion of the Europa League against him Manchester United to save their campaign disaster by achieving classification Champions…while the Chelsea walked through a Conference League where only Betis, whom they ended up beating in the final, managed to stand up to them.

At the moment, the movie is following the same script this season: The Aston Villa swept away Freiburg in the final of the Europa Leaguekissing continental glory again since they conquered the European Cup in 1982, while, in the Conference Leaguehe Crystal Palace They narrowly beat Rayo Vallecano to celebrate the first European title in their history.

“The Premier League is being demonized and labeled as a Super League in itself that needs to be overthrown. However, his success was not achieved by accident. Their clubs developed a model based on sporting merit and a highly egalitarian distribution of income,” he warned. Alaksander Ceferin back in 2023.

They developed a model based on sporting merit and a highly egalitarian income distribution

Alaksander Ceferin, UEFA president

Millions don’t win alone… but they do help a lot. During the last five years, five of the 10 champions there have been in the Europa League and the Conference have been of the Premier League. Competition that, during this period of time, has been the one with the highest volume of net spending on transfers that amounts to over 7,000 million euros. Not only that: up to 10 of the 20 teams that have ‘wasted’ the most since the 21-22 season are English.

“The Premier League currently generates around a quarter of the total income of European clubs,” he stated. Andrea Traversoexecutive director of sustainability and financial research at the UEFA. According to the latest report of ‘Football Money League’ presented by Deloittenine of the 20 clubs that generated the most income from television rights, ticket sales and marketing in the last year were from the Premier League.

In Europethe League that is closest to these standards in the Series A… with just under 600 million. The rest of the five major leagues even present a positive balance: LaLiga has invested 12 million and has only seen the Europa League to the Seville in the last five years. Ligue 1 (+€385 M) has not crowned any team in Europe or Conference League, while the Bundesliga (+330 M) has barely taken the Eintracht.

Without focusing on the finals Europe and Conference League This season, the data is scary. The most expensive signing in the history of the Freiburg, Ritsu Doancost around 11 million euros. He Aston Villa has paid more than that amount for 42 players. In the case of Rayduring the last decade he has spent around 69 ‘kilos’ on signings. Less than half that Crystal Palace…only in this season.

The correlation is direct and, furthermore, it feeds back, since the clubs of the premier reach high levels in each of the intercontinental tournaments: In the Championsfive of its six representatives finished in the Top-8 and the Newcastle He got into the round of 16 via the playoffs. In the Europa Leaguehe Aston Villa won the title by eliminating in the semifinals Nottingham Forest. Finally, in the Conferencehe Crystal Palace The cat has also taken the lead.

Not in vain, for the second consecutive season, the premier has obtained the extra place for performance – it has been taken by Liverpool– with overwhelming sobriety and, thanks to the triumph of Crystal Palace in the Conference Leagueup to nine English teams will compete in European competitions next year. Something that has already happened this year.

There is more: after the triumphs of Aston Villa and Crystal Palacehe Arsenal It has in its hands the possibility that, since the three European competitions are cohabiting (2022), there will be three continental champions from the same country. An unprecedented scenario that, if fulfilled, would reaffirm the dominance that the Premier League for him Old Continent. In England they are putting on their boots.