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#4 Premier League (Association football)
This is the top tier league in the English football league system. The league is comprised of 20 teams that get to face each other (in home and away fixtures). The bottom three teams get to be relegated to the English Football League with the top three securing direct qualification to the UEFA Champions League. The fourth team gets to play in a playoff to determine its involvement in Europe’s premier football championship.
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The league was birthed in 1992 after the top teams broke from the English Football League to form the Premier League. The league is undeniably the most watched sports league in the world and only comes second to the Bundesliga in terms of average football league match attendance. As of 2018, the Premier League is the second best European national football league based on UEFA’s coefficients.
The league made revenue worth € 5.3bn in the 2016-17 season.
#3 National Basketball Association (NBA, Basketball)
The NBA is the professional basketball league in North America. 30 teams take part in the premier national basketball league. Of the 30, only one team is Canadian with the rest being American.
The league was established in 1946 as Basketball Association of America (BAA). NBA came into being 3 years later after the BAA merged with the competing National Basketball League.
The NBA is undeniably regarded as the premier basketball league in the world. Based on the average annual salary per player, NBA is the best paying league in the world. NBA made € made 5.94bn in the 2016-17 season.
