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How the English Premier League is globalizing Americans
Los Angeles Times
|September 02, 2025
THE MOST-FOLLOWED professional sports league on Earth is increasingly an American one, but it's not the NFL, NBA or Major League Baseball. Despite their impressive strides in growing global audiences and reach, homegrown U.S. sports aren't the world’s biggest draw. Instead, American teams are buying into the world’s most popular sport —the other football — via the global all-star English Premier League.
The Premier League kicked off its 2025-2026 season Aug. 15 with 11 ofits 20 clubs under U.S. ownership (only four teams in the league are British-owned. It promises to be a crackling season.
Will thrice runners-up Arsenal (which shares owners with the Los Angeles Rams) be able to dethrone Liverpool (owned by the Red Sox's Fenway Sports Group)? Will heavy spenders Chelsea (which shares owners with the Dodgers and the Lakers) once again vie for the league title, fresh ofits improbable FIFA Club World Cup win this summer? And will San Francisco 49ers-owned Leeds United gain a permanent foothold in the league after being promoted from the lower division last season?
Perhaps the most compelling Premier League storyline is the fast-accelerating American takeover of soccer/football and what it tells us about the globalization of American culture. Suddenly, Americans are far more connected to the rest of the world than previous generations were, thanks to sport, our age’s leading pastime and most important form of media.
When I first moved to the United States as a teenager in the 1980s, Americans didn’t play much with others. We had our sports and proclaimed the winners in our domestic leagues “world champions.”
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