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Premier League Explore One Regular-Season Match Abroad

By davieG, in General Football and Sport

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The Premier League is once again considering the idea of playing competitive matches abroad.


The concept of a '39th game' was aborted back in 2008 amid criticism.


But top-flight clubs are now understood to be considering playing an existing - rather than extra - round of matches overseas, keeping the season at 38 games.


Talks are at an early stage but such a proposal could come to fruition by the end of the decade.


 


 


The value of the Premier League

The television deal for Premier League rights which runs from 2013-16 is worth almost £5.5bn


Over £2bn of this comes from the sale of overseas rights. Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia paid £650m between them


Last season 98% of all Premier League matches were available to TV viewers outside England


North Korea and Albania are the only countries not to have some form of rights agreement in place


 


 



The Premier League is also open to formalising and extending its pre-season Asia Trophy.


England's top clubs want to build on the popularity of the league abroad following huge attendances at pre-season friendlies in the US this summer - Manchester United's game against European champions Real Madrid in Michigan attracted a record crowd for America of 109,318.


The Premier League has also been influenced by United States basketball league the NBA and American football competition the NFL playing regular matches in London in recent seasons.


The first of three NFL games to be played at Wembley this season took place in front of a sell-out crowd on 28 September, and two more are scheduled for 26 October and 9 November.


However, any attempt to play a regular season fixture abroad is bound to meet fierce resistance from English football fans.


Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore spoke about the concept at a pre-season event in August.


"The clubs wanted it then [in 2008] and they would all probably want it now" he said.


"It will happen at some point. Whether it's on my watch, who knows?"


Benji

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I suspect there will be great disapproval by the fans on this.

 

But I went to the recent NFL Wembley game and couldn't help but think what an amazing excuse this is as a fan to come to London for a weekend of sport and beer.

 

I'd love it if as a complete one off (and bear in mind there are 20 premier league clubs and the "bigger" teams will be prioritised over us) as an excuse to follow Leicester to New York for a long weekend!

davieG

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I suspect there will be great disapproval by the fans on this.

 

But I went to the recent NFL Wembley game and couldn't help but think what an amazing excuse this is as a fan to come to London for a weekend of sport and beer.

 

I'd love it if as a complete one off (and bear in mind there are 20 premier league clubs and the "bigger" teams will be prioritised over us) as an excuse to follow Leicester to New York for a long weekend!

 

Making it even more exclusive than it already is due to the high cost of games.

Hollism

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I think it's a terrible idea. Can't they just host the Community Shield in a different country each year? Don't think that'd kick up much of a fuss in this country but it'd probably sell out most stadiums elsewhere in the world

 

The FA won't do that after they spunked the best part of a billion quid on Wembley. Would be ideal though.

Corky

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If it helps the brand and the commercial revenue streams are boosted along with the international profile then I'm all for it.

Bayfox

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Making it even more exclusive than it already is due to the high cost of games.

I'm all for it. but yes you are right I am in a fortunate enough position to be able to do a few days in the states or asia etc if we played abroad.

however as a solution what if all clubs had to use a percentage of the income to reduce ticket costs at home. pie in the sky I know. but if it made going to the kp more affordable. would people then be more accepting of the idea?

davieG

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Would you feel any different if it was a scheduled 'Home' game that was moved as opposed to a scheduled 'Away' game.

 

Loss of a home game?

 

If it was us it would be against one of the 'big' teams

 

Refund on a ST?

 

Skews the advantage to the 'away' team

 

There's simply no benefit for the vast majority of the home fans. As for it reducing ticket prices for other home games don't make me laugh.

ousefox

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Apart from it being a terrible idea on the whole, surely playing one game abroad will take away the fairness of playing each team home and away. There are plenty of statistics to show home advantage. If we played that United game in China or wherever the score could have been a lot different.

Guest

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Apart from it being a terrible idea on the whole, surely playing one game abroad will take away the fairness of playing each team home and away. There are plenty of statistics to show home advantage. If we played that United game in China or wherever the score could have been a lot different.

Absolutely. Perhaps they'll play the other match between those two teams at a 'neutral' venue in England to balance it out but I doubt they've thought further than the £/$ signs in front of their faces.

Ross-Kemp

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Apart from it being a terrible idea on the whole, surely playing one game abroad will take away the fairness of playing each team home and away. There are plenty of statistics to show home advantage. If we played that United game in China or wherever the score could have been a lot different.

We beat Everton in Thailand lol
Captain...

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We need a return of the Anglo/Italian Cup format, the Euro/Asian cup, scrap the league cup* and play it as a domestic knock out competition where the winner/final 2/final 4 play an end of season mini tournament in Asia against Asian teams and other European qualifiers for a massive cash prize.  

 

*or make it a football League Cup and Prem teams play in the Euro/Asian cup knockout, either the top 16 teams in the league or we invite 12 teams from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, or make it 24 teams invite 4 teams and play until there are 3 left.

 

(Other European leagues would have to fit it into their schedule)

 

There really are many many options and alternatives to get some competitive games played in Asia/America/South Pole, that can work along side the league and not fvck it up and make it a joke.

Corky

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Apart from it being a terrible idea on the whole, surely playing one game abroad will take away the fairness of playing each team home and away. There are plenty of statistics to show home advantage. If we played that United game in China or wherever the score could have been a lot different.

 

Exactly, at 3-1 down in China, with very few hardcore Leicester fans there, do you reckon we'd have had the same reaction as we had two weeks ago? Encouragement, passion, fantastic noise? Nowhere near the same.

Kitchandro

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I don't understand why this keeps getting brought up, it doesn't make sense on even the most basic of levels.

 

The whole point of the fixture system is that you play everyone twice; once at home, and once away.

 

Of course there's situations like we've had with Coventry where they've had to play in another City, but there is just no way you can justify this in a regular league season.

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