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Theoretically, what is the maximum number of times any two English Premier League teams can play each other in a single season?
So, let's work this out logically:
1 FA Community Shield match
3 Premier League matches (2 round-robin + if there is a tie for championship, relegation, or qualification to other competitions, ...
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Leicester City FC in the seasons 2015/2016 and 2014/2015
1I remember reading this in the past. Basically scroll down to the 3rd to last graph and the author is claiming that no team has won the EPL from below 3rd the year before. It also looks like ...
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How many Premier League teams will play in the 17-18 Champions League?
No more than five clubs can enter the UEFA Champions League from one national association.
Regarding the top three associations (currently Spain, Germany and
England): if two clubs from one of ...
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Is there a penalty for deliberating losing or fielding a weakened side?
Since 2011, teams have been allowed to field any combination of their 25 man "match day" squad without fear of reprisals from the Premier League. Previously to that, teams were fined (relatively) ...
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What is the most number of times two teams met in a season?
There have been 7 El Clásicos played between Real Madrid and Barcelona during the 2010/11 season in 4 different tournaments:
2010/11 La Liga:
29.Nov.2010 BAR 5 - 0 RMA
16.Apr.2011 RMA 1 - 1 BAR
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What's the highest number of points without winning the Premier League?
According to Wikipedia, it is:
Most points in a season without winning the league: 97, Liverpool (2018–19)
It's not surprising since the record for most points is 100, only three higher (by ...
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Soccer team lineup announcement time
According to rule L.21 of the current Premier League Handbook:
At least 75 minutes before the time fixed for the kick-off of a League Match, a
representative of each participating Club shall ...
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If an assistant referee commits a mistake in a football game, will he be penalized in any way?
The referees for the Premier League, Football League and FA competitions are appointed by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited. When referees make frequent and/or glaring errors in matches, ...
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Delay in Premier League Football match
This situation is described in Premier League Handbook 2016/17; Premier League Rules - Clubs: Operations - Section L: Fixtures - Kick-Off:
L.29. Each Club participating in a League Match shall ...
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Why is the premier league considered a more physical competition?
One contributing factor to this theory is that referees in the English Premier League, and generally in British football, are more lenient than their counterparts in the rest of Europe. Article on red ...
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Who wins a league (EPL) if two teams have the same number of points?
The Premier League rulebook states:
If at the end of the Season, either the League Champions or the Clubs to be relegated or the question of qualification for other competitions cannot be ...
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Is Drop-kick allowed when free kick is awarded inside the box
The whistle was not blown, at all.
Play was never stopped.
No player was penalised for offside.
There was never a free kick.
Alisson played the ball legally to Salah in the same way he and every ...
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Champions League qualification from Premier League
As far as I understand, you're right, in this case, Tottenham will be transferred to the Europa League. This situation is specifically covered in 2018/19 UEFA Champions League regulations:
3.07 If ...
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Tying relegation rules EPL vs EFL
It looks like there is a real difference here.
EPL Rule C17 (download link, page 108):
If at the end of the Season either the League Champions or the Clubs to be relegated or the question of ...
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
International match: Australia hold the record for the most goals in an international match for a victory over American Samoa (11th April 2001) in Oceanian 2002 World Cup qualifiers. Australia 31 vs ...
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What will champions league authority do if the champions don't qualify for the next season's tournament?
This has happened before. Liverpool won the champions league in 2004-05 season, but finished 5th in the EPL. They were given an exemption by UEFA and added to the first round of the qualifying rounds....
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
I find this match that seems the world record with 149 goals during a single match.
The results is caused by a protest on a refereeing decisions.
All the 149 were caused by deliberately own goals.
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
There is also a relevant case: Federated States of Micronesia national under-23 football team.
Their performance was the worst recorded in international football as they lost all three games, ...
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Is there a penalty for deliberating losing or fielding a weakened side?
I think you're mixing two different issues together.
Deliberately losing the game is unsportsmanlike behavior, puts the intended third team under unjust competition conditions and will be punished by ...
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Who wins a league (EPL) if two teams have the same number of points?
In the EPL/Premier League if two teams are equal on points, goal difference and goals scored and the position is of value (deemed, winners, champions league automatic qualification, champions league ...
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EPL match with the longest injury time
A match between Watford and Norwich on 21 January 2022 had 15 minutes of additional time at the end, though this was due to a temporary floodlight failure causing the match to be disrupted, rather ...
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Distance covered in Premier League
The distance covered by players can be calculated from the data via the performance data feeds provided by Opta, however these are commercial and would require some form of payment to access them.
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Who has the authorization to remove a coach in Football?
The decision to remove the manager is never done by just one person. A football club big enough to be in the Premier League will be run by a board of directors. So it will be the board's decision to ...
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VAR check after match end?
"There is no time limit for the review process as accuracy is more important than speed" -IFAB
Any match changing decisions/incidents reviewable by VAR can be reviewed even after the restart....
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VAR check after match end?
Law 5 answers this directly.
Section 2, Decisions of the Referee provides that
The referee may not change a restart decision on realising that it is incorrect or on the advice of another match ...
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When and why did English football teams begin stopping play for medical emergencies in the crowd?
I don't believe that anything has changed per se, other than generally more awareness amongst fans, players, referees etc. that in a medical emergency quick action can save lives, which probably came ...
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Most hat-tricks in a single gameweek
Sticking with just the Premier League, there have been five other game weeks in which three hat-tricks were scored:
23 September 1995, when Robbie Fowler (Liverpool), Alan Shearer (Blackburn), and ...
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Why did penalty kick success rates suddenly drop from 2004 to 2005?
The values before and after the jump are rather constant so I expect this sudden change not to be correlated to any change in player performance. This gets even clearer if you superimpose the Premier ...
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Record for player hitting the woodwork most number of times in a season in top European leagues?
La Liga:
In 2017/18 season, Lionel Messi hit the woodwork 18 times, which according to Opta, is the most in La Liga season since 2003/2004.
Premier League:
In 2011/12 season, Robin van Persie hit ...
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