EPL

	English Premier League (EPL)
The Premier League is an English professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Football League. The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 matches each, totalling 380 matches in the season. Most games are played in the afternoons of Saturdays and Sundays, the other games during weekday evenings. It is currently sponsored by Barclays Bank and thus officially known as the Barclays Premier League. Outside England it is commonly referred to as the English Premier League. The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal.This deal will be worth £3 billion as of 2013–14, with BSkyB and BT Group securing the rights to broadcast 116 and 38 games respectively.The Premier League is the most-watched football league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a TV audience of 4.7 billion people.In the 2010–11 season the average Premier League match attendance was 35,363, the second highest of any professional football league other than the German Bundesliga,[4] and stadium occupancy was 92.2% capacity.The Premier League ranked second in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) coefficients of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five years. Since 1888, a total of 23 clubs have been crowned champions of the English football system. Of the 45 clubs to have competed since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, five have won the title: Manchester United (12 titles), Arsenal (3), Chelsea (3), Blackburn Rovers (1) and Manchester City (1). The current champions are Manchester City, who won the title in the 2011–12 season.
POINTS TABLE
RANK TEAM PLAYED WON DRAW LOSS GF GA GD POINTS 01 Manchester United 33 26 03 04 76 35 +40 81 02 Manchester City 32 20 08 04 58 27 +31 68 03 Chelsea 32 18 07 07 64 33 +31 61 04 Arsenal 33 17 09 07 64 35 +29 60 05 Tottenham 32 17 07 08 55 40 +15 58 06 Everton 33 14 14 05 51 37 +14 56 07 Liverpool 33 13 11 09 59 40 +19 50 08 West Bromwich 32 13 05 14 42 43 -01 44 09 Swansea City 32 10 11 11 43 42 +01 41 10 Fulham 33 10 10 13 44 51 -07 40 11 West Ham United 33 10 09 14 38 47 -09 39 12 Southampton 33 09 11 13 47 54 -07 38 13 Newcastle United 33 10 06 17 42 59 -17 36 14 Norwich City 33 07 14 12 31 52 -21 35 15 Sunderland 33 08 10 15 37 45 -08 34 16 Stoke City 33 07 13 13 28 41 -13 34 17 Aston Villa 33 08 10 15 36 60 -24 34 18 Wigan Athletic 32 08 07 17 37 58 -21 31 19 Queen Park Rangers 33 04 12 17 29 54 -25 24 20 Reading 33 05 09 19 36 63 -27 24