Like other school-level athletes they compete to win their league title and move on to bigger competitions eventually reaching nationals the ultimate title for a school squad.

Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s.

The teams finishing at the top of a country's league may be eligible also to play in international club competitions in the following season.

The majority of countries supplement the league system with one or more " cup " competitions organised on a knock-out basis.

Water-based synthetic turfs enable the ball to be transferred more quickly than on the original sand-based surfaces and it is this characteristic that has made them the surface of choice for international and national league competitions.

All clubs in the Premier League and Football League are automatically eligible, and clubs in the next six levels of the English football league system are also eligible provided they have played in either the FA Cup, FA Trophy or FA Vase competitions in the previous season.

Overall, they have won fifty-three official titles on the national and international stage, more than any other Italian club: a record twenty-eight league titles, a record nine Italian cups and five national super cups and, with eleven titles in confederation and inter-confederation competitions ( two Intercontinental Cups, two European Champion Clubs ' Cup / UEFA Champions Leagues, one European Cup Winners ' Cup, a record three UEFA Cups, one UEFA Intertoto Cup and two UEFA Super Cups ) the club currently ranks fourth in Europe and seventh in the world with the most trophies won.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

The new-look Liverpool side shaped by Dalglish topped the league for almost the entire season, and had a run of 37 matches unbeaten in all competitions ( including 29 in the league ; 22 wins and 7 draws ) from the beginning of the season to 21 February 1988, when they lost to Everton in the league.

The Brighton and Hove Petanque Club runs an annual triples, doubles and singles competition, informal KOs, winter and summer league, plus Open competitions with other clubs.

He scored 283 league goals in his career, including a record 260 in the Premier League, and a total of 422 in all competitions including international at all levels.

* Gold Coast Vikings, rugby league team that competed in the Queensland State League and the Queensland Cup competitions

In addition to their league competitions, most European footballing nations also have knockout cup competitions-English football, for example, has the FA Cup and the League Cup.

These competitions run concurrently with the " regular season " league competitions and are not regarded as playoffs.

* 1985: Everton 3 – 1 Rapid Wien-Everton, who also won the English league title the same season, were barred from entering the Champions Cup the following season due to a five-year ban on English clubs entering UEFA competitions after the Heysel stadium disaster.

They play in student rugby league competitions as well as open age leagues.

There is also a men's and women's association football league, two rugby union clubs ( Coffs Harlequins and Southern Cross University ), junior and senior basketball competitions and the representative Coffs Suns, field hockey and netball competitions.

With the prospect of meeting bigger teams in those competitions, and with the financial importance of doing well in the league competition, the Football League Trophy is not considered a priority by many clubs, with some opting to field below-strength teams, particularly in the earlier rounds.

Cleckheaton's rugby union team play in the North Division 1 and are a constituent part of Cleckheaton Sports Club and play at their grounds in Moorend, where they also have " one of the best bowling greens in West Yorkshire ", often holding local league games and such competitions as the John Smith's Classic.

The owners would like each club in the fourteen-team league to play a home-and-home series with teams in its division, plus two games against teams in the other division.

However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.

In 1969 – 70 Ajax won the Dutch league championship, winning 27 out of 34 games and scoring 100 goals.

They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians.

Clubs in turn were required to play their full schedule of games, rather than forfeiting scheduled games once out of the running for the league championship, as happened frequently under the National Association.

He started the next season with the Kansas City Blues of the Central Hockey League and was leading the league in points when he was called up mid-season to play 31 games with St. Louis.

Selig arranged for major league games to be played at Milwaukee County Stadium.

* Abolition of the American and National league offices and presidencies, and inclusion of all umpiring crews into a common pool for AL and NL games, instead of having separate pools per league ( 2000 )

With the league rules permitting teams to wear their third jersey twice in the regular season and once in the preseason, the Panthers reserve the use of their alternate light blue jersey for a home game when there are one or two games that they don't wear them on the road.

Between 1980 and 1984, Fulham rugby league played their home games at the Cottage.

The Spiders were left with essentially a minor league lineup, and began to lose games at a record pace.

Spalding won 47 games and Barnes led the league in hitting at. 429 as Chicago won the first ever National League pennant, which at the time was the game's top prize.

In addition to wins, Young still holds the major league records for most career innings pitched ( 7, 355 ), most career games started ( 815 ), and most complete games ( 749 ).

Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.

The Dublin team plays most of their home league hurling and Gaelic Football games at Parnell Park.

The forward pass is one of main distinguishers between gridiron football ( American football and Canadian football ) in which the play is legal and widespread, and rugby football ( union and league ) from which the North American games evolved, in which the play is illegal.

In only their third season of First Division football, Fulham finished rock bottom of the 22-team league in the 1951 – 52 season, winning only eight of forty-two games.

Talented young stars provided solid defensive play with catcher Charles Johnson setting a major league record by playing in 123 games without committing a single error, while Luis Castillo ( 2B ) and Edgar Rentería ( SS ) comprised one of the best double play combos in the League.

On May 22, the Marlins hit bottom with a major league worst record of 19 – 29, having lost 6 straight games.

However, Leicester became injury struck and nervous and gained only one point from their last 5 games, with Banks himself missing the final 3 games of the season through injury and eventually fell to a disappointing 4th place in the league.

Aegina appears to have belonged to the Eretrian league during the Lelantine War ; hence, perhaps, we may explain the war with Samos, a leading member of the rival Chalcidian league in the reign of King Amphicrates ( Herod.

" For pitchers, wins, ERA, and strikeouts are the most often-cited statistics, and a pitcher leading his league in these statistics may be referred to as a " Triple Crown " winner ( but normally he has won the Cy Young Award ).

In rugby league the video referee may not make judgements on whether a pass is forward.

" He also denied the right to secede: " The Constitution … forms a government not a league .… To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States is not a nation.

Although the method may vary, studies that attempt to rank the 32 fan bases in the NFL consistently place Eagles fans among the best in the league, noting their " unmatched fervor.

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However, due to reserve teams being allowed to compete in the same football league system, subsequent places may be allowed to play off depending on reserve teams finishing within the 3rd to 6th places.

A foul ball may or may not result in a strikeout dependent upon what association and local league rules.

Some or all of the panels may be stamped with the manufacturer's name, league or conference logos, signatures, and other markings.

The name Hellenes, which was originally the name of a Boeotian tribe in Thessalic Phthia, ( Achaea Phthiotis ) may be related to the members of the league and may have been broadened to refer to all Greeks when the myth of their patriarch Hellen was invented.

This may be one explanation for the Giants ' abundance of success in league play.

The Hanseatic League was not exclusively German in any ethnic sense: many towns who joined the league were outside the Holy Roman Empire and a number of them may only loosely be characterized as German.

Tournament rules can vary as specified by the league, but may include for example – not allowing players to use devices to communicate with other persons during a game, or not allowing players to unduly alter the layout of terrain on the field.

No prizes are normally awarded at such a league match, but prizes and kudos may go to the quiz team winning a league or a knockout competition.

2 ° For the purpose of the exercise of any executive function of the State in or in connection with its external relations, the Government may to such extent and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be determined by law, avail of or adopt any organ, instrument, or method of procedure used or adopted for the like purpose by the members of any group or league of nations with which the State is or becomes associated for the purpose of international co-operation in matters of common concern.

However records indicate he may not have actually entered his team into the American Professional Football Association until 1921, the All-Americans are generally shown as the third-place team in league standings from that year.