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29 Oct 2014 15:44:11
Could you tell me why people refer to the Premier league as the premiership? this isn't rugby the league has never been called the premiership. Granted this has probably been brought up tons of times
{Ed007's Note - The first season had no sponsor and the league was known simply as the FA Premier League, when Carling became the first sponsor of the league in 1993 the league was renamed the FA Carling Premiership, Barclaycard came along and took over sponsorship from Carling in 2001 and the league became known as the Barclaycard Premiership. From there Barclays took over sponsorship in 2004 and the league was called the Barclays Premiership until 2007 when it was rebranded as the Barclays Premier League which is still used today.
It's been called the Premiership a lot longer than it's been called the Premier League.