Major League Soccer doesn't have a promotion and relegation system like most professional soccer leagues. But why?

Yet, the absence of a promotion and relegation system — a hallmark of other leagues worldwide — remains highly debated. While critics cite challenges to its implementation, advocates argue that the ...

Promotion and relegation is a popular process in professional sports in which teams are demoted or promoted based on how well they play from one year to the next. Relegation is considered by many ...

In Germany, the teams who finish 16th in the Bundesliga and third in Bundesliga 2 contest the promotion/relegation play-off - known in German simply as the Relegation. The club with fewer days ...

Does anyone want to be promoted? This round made one thing perfectly clear: much like the Primeira Liga, it seems that no one wants to win it. Or be promoted. Both leaders Penafiel and Tondela lost ...

Ambitious Championship club Oldham have called for the return of automatic promotion and relegation between Super League and the Championship: calling it the ‘heart and soul’ of rugby league.

While the recent Border-Gavaskar Trophy series enjoyed record crowds there is always scope for change and transformation in the game. Half-empty grounds for ...

The balance of teams in 1B suits a county like Offaly or a Westmeath or Laois who are trying to build something and play ...

The Rules Teams are ranked on the basis of their UCI points for each of the 2023, 2024 and 2025 seasons. This annual score is based on the total of a team’s 20 best scorers. Any ProTeams from ...