English Football League

The English Football League is the oldest professional league in football and one of the oldest in all sports. Founded in 1888, it expanded several times to fit the hundreds of professional sides now existing in England, last doing so in 1958 when forming the Fourth Division. After the First Division, now the Premier League separated in 1992, the EFL controls the remaining three divisions, now named Division One, Division Two, and Division Three. Coming in bottom in Division Three sends teams into "non-league" where professionalism is optional, teams can no longer enter the League Cup and entrance to the FA Cup is randomised.