# English Premiership Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 16, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391 "2002-06-16T19:19:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391/41 "2002-06-20T08:11:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by RickQ \* > \*\* > AFAICR, the top three teams in the UK Premiership get into the “Champions League” and compete against the best teams in Europe._\* Both England and Scotland have completely seperate Premierships. I am not sure what Northern Ireland and Wales call their top divisions, but they are pretty seperate as well. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Go\_alien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_alien)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391/42 "2002-06-20T08:15:44Z")
Wales calls its top league Division Two.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Aro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@Aro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aro)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391/43 "2002-06-20T09:38:02Z")
Norn Iron is just called the Irish Football League. Lisburn Distillery, Linfield, Glentoran, Portadown, Cliftonville…All big names in European competition. Not!! [http://www.irish-league.co.uk/](http://www.irish-league.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391/44 "2002-06-20T16:17:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sc913 \* > > 4 teams in the playoffs. Everyone should try to catch some of those play off games. Serious craziness there. > Also, England are now alloted 4 places in the Champions (hah!)League by UEFA, because of good performances in the past few years in that competition or something. This has led to Newcastle getting into what Sir Bobby probably still refers to as the European Cup. They have to go through a couple of qualifying round though, as do the third placed team. Thanks for straightening that out for me, I was not totally sure, I don’t follow football that closely. **Amanset** , sorry about that, my mistake :smack: I usually just put in UK automatically when talking about things back home so people know. I do know that Scotland and England have completely seperate top divisions. Rick ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391/45 "2002-06-20T16:33:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brynda \* > \*\* > **Amanset** , sorry about that, my mistake :smack: I usually just put in UK automatically when talking about things back home so people know. I do know that Scotland and England have completely seperate top divisions. > \*\* No problem. Just don’t do it again, 'cos then I’ll have to slap you about a bit 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2002, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391/46 "2002-06-20T17:02:18Z")
I think I prolly need to be slapped about a bit. I forgot that Brynda was logged in :smack: That is the only problem with sharing a PC with another doper, you have to be really careful :smack: :smack: Rick [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-premiership-questions/114391.md?page=2)