Notts County beat Chesterfield in a penalty shootout on Saturday to get promoted and earn a place in League Two. The Magpies will join Wrexham in the four-tiered English soccer league next season. Wrexham previously grabbed automatic promotion from the National League after clinching the title at the end of April. Chesterfield and Notts County […]

Southampton will officially be relegated from the Premier League at the end of the current campaign. The Saints learned their fate following a 2-0 loss at home to Fulham on Saturday. They are the first English top-flight club to be relegated this season. Fulham piled on the pressure thanks to a goal from Carlos Vinicius […]

Leeds United have kept their Premier League survival hopes alive with a 2-2 draw at home against Newcastle on Saturday. Although three points would have been better, the Whites picked up a vital point against the tough Magpies team. However, they remain in the relegation zone heading into the season's final two games. The hosts […]

Jamie Vardy has proclaimed that avoiding relegation this season with Leicester City would be the biggest achievement of his career. The striker previously collected the Premier League title with the Foxes in 2016. Fast forward seven years and Leicester are now in danger of being dropped down to the Championship. "I think at this moment […]

Huddersfield Town has clinched a spot in next season's Championship thanks to a win against Sheffield United on Thursday and the work of Neil Warnock. The club was previously in severe danger of being relegated to League One. In fact, they were practically in the drop zone for the majority of the current campaign. However, […]

As expected, Leeds United named Sam Allardyce as the club's new head coach on Wednesday. The deal will apparently also include an interesting stipulation should the team avoid relegation. The Daily Mail is reporting that the Yorkshire club will pay Allardyce a base salary of about $627,000. There are only four games remaining on the […]

The latest episode of the World Soccer Talk Podcast is presented by Sling. Hosted by Christopher Harris and Kartik Krishnaiyer, this episode debates promotion and relegation in the USA. It's a bigger topic now more than ever, and we dissect the pros and cons of the system. Some of the questions we answer are: Can […]

Crystal Palace co-owner and chairman Steve Parish recently spoke on the financial repercussions surrounding relegation from the Premier League. The English businessman helped purchase the south London club in the summer of 2010. Palace was in the second-tiered Championship at the time after relegation from the top flight in 2005. The club gained promotion back […]

Promotion and relegation, aka pro/rel, is a controversial and hotly debated topic in US soccer circles. The United States is one of only a few countries worldwide that does not use the system that allows for the movement of clubs between divisions based on competitive merit. But how things could have been so different. When […]

Morning Footy, the anchor show for CBS Sports Golazo Network, once again brought up the hot discussion of pro/rel in the US. The first edition of the show displayed the drama that is promotion and relegation, using Wrexham's dramatic win over Notts County in the fifth tier as a primary example. On Wednesday, the four-person […]

Wrexham co-owners Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds were in the stands to watch their team play Notts County on Monday. The game had anticipation as the biggest National League fixture of all time. After all, the two clubs entered the match both on 100 points, far exceeding any other team in the fifth-tiered division. As […]

Everton's financial troubles seem to be getting worse by the day. An auditor's report produced in March stated that the Merseyside club was facing possible sanctions for breaching Financial Fair Play rules. Then on Friday news surfaced that the Toffees could even receive a Premier League points deduction. Now, auditors claim that relegation would threaten […]

Everton moved out of the Premier League relegation zone thanks to a narrow victory over Brentford on Saturday. Dwight McNeil got the Toffees on the board just 35 seconds into the match. It would turn out to be the only goal of the game. The visitors certainly put pressure on Everton for much of the […]

The topic of promotion and relegation in MLS has been debated for decades. Fans, pundits, and league officials have gone back and forth on the subject tirelessly. In recent years, league commissioner Don Garber has addressed the idea multiple times. The topic keeps coming up again. This week, Garber once again toyed with the idea. […]

MLS purists have long battled against the notion of promotion and relegation in American soccer. This position has often been backed by franchise owners. However, moving into 2023 it appears as though the winds of change are swirling with the success of MLS Season Pass. In a survey conducted by ESPN in 2019, 64% of […]