A tournament that is sometimes overlooked: the EFL Cup

Recently, in the first round of the English Football League Cup, some clubs were eliminated by opponents from lesser leagues. A scenario that could be explained by a packed schedule. This fall marks the 63rd annual English League Cup, also known as the English Football League Cup. Fans of the last tournament will recall the dramatic penalty shootout that ended in a Liverpool victory, giving the Reds their ninth title and their first in a decade. The final score was 10-11. The charming thing about national cups is that even if the Premier League clubs, as is their wont to do, establish themselves as tournament favorites, there is still a chance that the "small" teams may pull it off. All of this took place during the first round of the sponsor-named Carabao Cup. Championship clubs (English D2) lost 12 of 14 matches against teams presumably playing at a lesser level. Three of these teams are playing on the road, while four of them are from League Two (D4).

For English football, winning the league cup is the pinnacle of success

Prioritization is the next question that arises. What kind of rivalry should be promoted? Would you rather win the championship or the cup? Money is obviously driving these inquiries. The financial and physical costs of competing for and winning the English Football League Cup make the trophy look unappealing.The Livescore website is a great resource for sports news, statistics, all today livescores on site Livescores.biz. Compared to the £2.44 million (⋅ €2,890,000) awarded to the FA Cup winner in the previous season, the prize money for the 2021–2022 season was a meager £100,000 (⋅ €118,000). The final amounts were far lower than the prize money the Championship playoff winner had anticipated.

A season that was underappreciated and overlooked

The World Cup placed a halt to the season in November and December, forcing championship coaches to deal with a new challenge: Advice on how to play all 46 matches in July–May? In all, teams will have played in the league for 21 days by the time the season concludes on November 12 (and it doesn't even include the time spent competing in other cups, like as the AFL Cup or the FA Cup). With 25 games remaining in the regular season, many clubs will be eligible for promotion to the Premier League without having to participate in a playoff.

Having the Premier League on television generates a ton of revenue

The third team would undoubtedly get more than the second-place club's promotion bonus, even if the two top teams in the second division would each receive around €118,000 and €59,000, respectively. Mirror Football cited soccer finance analyst Kieran Maguire as saying that the Reds received almost £170 million (or over €200 million) upon Nottingham Forest's promotion to the Premier League. The anticipated total for the years 2022–2025 is €12.5 billion, or €4.1 billion per season, and it is mostly attributable to the increase in broadcast rights acquired by England’s top division. As an example, Maguire said that a Championship club "usually receives between 9 and 9.5 million euros from television." There is a €110 million increase from €9 million to €118 million (the amount teams get for their broadcast rights) in the Premier League. On top of that, he mentioned parachute payouts for two years, totaling at least €88 million. When you put them all together, the total is €198 million. Then, according to commercial directors, the Premier League can charge ten times as much for a 30-second perimeter ad as the Championship can since it caters to a worldwide audience. A sufficient justification for the fact that some coaches, following the directives of their management, made substantial squad changes during the AFL Cup's preliminary round in order to focus on the Championship League.