The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders.

Both clubs were shareholders in Aironi.

Ajax, Juventus and Bayern Munich are the three clubs to have won all three major UEFA club competitions.

The two lower-ranked suits ( clubs and diamonds ) are called the minor suits and the higher-ranked suits ( hearts and spades ) are called the major suits.

The Orioles name had been used by previous major league baseball clubs in Baltimore, including the American League Baltimore Orioles franchise from 1901 – 1902 that became the New York Yankees and the National League Baltimore Orioles.

The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League.

USCA-affiliated clubs in major US cities include the New York, Chicago, Beverly Hills, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco, Oakland, Houston, Boston, Detroit, Kansas City, Louisville, Seattle, and Portland Croquet Clubs.

The Cubs are one of the two remaining charter members of the National League ( the other being the Atlanta Braves ) and one of two active major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago White Sox of the American League.

One will find varying degrees of organized local dachshund clubs in most major American cities, including New York, New Orleans, Portland, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

In 2006 a major scandal in Italian football revealed that certain clubs had been illegally influencing the referee selection process, in an attempt to ensure that certain referees were assigned to their matches.

In 1924 Keio University established the first university karate club in Japan and by 1932, major Japanese universities had karate clubs.

The group, together with the political clubs such as Tammany Hall that were developing at the same time, played a major role in the development of the " spoils system ", a recognized procedure in national, state and local affairs.

Eventually, the city name came to be used for the team, as with the other major league clubs.

By the end of the following winter ball season, Brooklyn was one of several major league clubs seeking to sign Clemente.

In 1903, the NRA began to establish rifle clubs at all major colleges, universities and military academies.

Gaming machines are found in casinos ( approximately one in each major city ) as well as pubs and clubs in some states ( usually sports, social, or RSL clubs ).

Football is widely played all over the country with fans divided between two major clubs, Young African Sports Club ( Yanga ) and Simba Sports Club ( Simba ).

Albion have a number of long-standing rivalries with other Midlands clubs ; their traditional rivals have always been Aston Villa, but more recently their major rivalry has been with Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom they contest the Black Country derby.

The Lewis-Clark Broncs were affiliated with various major league parent clubs, including the Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Baltimore Orioles, and Oakland Athletics or A's.

Three major football competitions operate throughout the year: the National Football League and the All-Ireland Senior Championship are operated on a county basis, while the All-Ireland Club Championship is contested by individual clubs.

Other major sports clubs were founded in the following years like Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques ( 1921 ), Clube Ferroviário de Lourenço Marques ( 1924 ), Sport Club de Vila Pery ( 1928 ), Clube Ferroviário da Beira ( 1943 ), Grupo Desportivo da Companhia Têxtil do Punguè ( 1943 ), and Sport Lourenço Marques e Benfica ( 1955 ).

Originally an X-rated movie theater this striptease club pioneered lap dancing in 1980, and was a major force in popularizing it in strip clubs on a nationwide and eventually world wide basis.

In this cup competition all clubs of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that normally would not meet could take part, though actually almost only clubs from the Empire's three major cities Vienna, Budapest and Prague participated.

Amateur sumo clubs are gaining in popularity in the United States, with competitions regularly being held in major cities across the country.

The Gymnastic Club Pancypria ( GSP ), the owner of the Neo GSP Stadium, is one of the major athletics clubs of the island.

Ajax is historically one of the most successful clubs in the world ; according to the IFFHS, Ajax were the seventh most successful European club of the 20th century.

During the conquest, the Araucanians quickly added horses and European weaponry to their arsenal of clubs and bows and arrows.

Serie A has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists: Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record twenty-six different occasions, winning the title twelve times.

Serie A is ranked 4th among European leagues according to UEFA's league coefficient behind the English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, and German Bundesliga, which is based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the Europa League.

The league hosts three of the world's most famous clubs as Juventus, Milan and Internazionale, all founding members of the G-14, a group which represented the largest and most prestigious European football clubs ; Serie A was the only league to produce three founding members.

As a result of the tragedy, English clubs were banned from participating in European competition for five years ; Liverpool received a ten-year ban, which was later reduced to six years.

UEFA laid the blame for the incident solely on the Liverpool supporters, and banned all English clubs from European competition for five years.

The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s.

Manchester United has the third highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund and FC Barcelona.

Blatter appeared to incur much criticism during 2007 and 2008 for his apparent persistence in attempting to change European Union employment law regarding the number of foreign players football clubs can field at any one time.

The earliest clubs on the European continent were of a political nature.

Good form led to an international call-up a year later, attracting the attention of several European clubs.

Bergkamp attracted the attention of several European clubs as a result of his performances for Ajax.

In domestic competition, Feyenoord has won 14 Dutch Championships, 11 Dutch Cups and two Dutch Supercups, in addition to the European Cup, two UEFA Cups and the Intercontinental Cup, making it one of the most successful Dutch clubs.

In order to strengthen the dominance of these countries in European football and to financially support the professional clubs, the introduction of the Mitropa Cup was decided at a meeting in Venice on July 17, following the initiative of the head of the Austrian Football Association ( ÖFB ), Hugo Meisl.

The rugby union team-Munster Rugby-is a prominent identity symbol and is amongst the elite of European rugby clubs.

The tragedy resulted in all English football clubs being placed under an indefinite ban by UEFA from all European competitions ( lifted in 1990 – 91 ), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional year and fourteen Liverpool fans found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment.

* European Club Association, an association of European football clubs, which was founded in January 2008

Despite the recent downturn in success, the club is an associated member and one of eight Italian clubs that are part of the European Club Association, a representative collection of Europe's most elite clubs, formed after the dissolution of the G-14.

Sir Robert William " Bobby " Robson, CBE ( 18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009 ) was an English footballer and manager, who managed seven European clubs and the England national team during his career.

* European Ramblers ' Association, a European umbrella organisation of national hiking clubs