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English football’s top-flight division, the Premier League is set to schedule an elongated pre-season for next year in the United States of America. There has been a massive growth of the sport across the Atlantic and the Premier League hopes to capitalize with an ‘enhanced’ pre-season before the 2023-23 season, according to David Ornstein.


In this ‘enhanced’ preseason, a tournament including the top Premier League teams is set to take place in the USA next summer, to create an authentic experience of the league for people abroad. The tournament would have six clubs, likely to be the big six in the Premier League and would be divided into two groups. The games would be played across multiple cities and would likely benefit the teams and league greatly.


The tournament is not finalised yet but is expected to happen if the competition is scheduled the decision could face backlash from the fans, as a lot of people believe the game should not be pushed outside England just for financial gain. This tournament could be the 1st step on the blueprint for the Premier League to integrate meaningful matches abroad.


These reports come after an influx of USA-based owners in the Premier League presenting new sporting festivities seen in American sports. Recently, the new Chelsea owner Todd Boehly had put forth a proposal for scheduling an ‘All-star game’ for the Premier League where two teams from North and South England comprising of players from multiple PL teams will go head-to-head in a competitive fixture. 


“Ultimately I hope the Premier League takes a little bit of a lesson from American sports,” said Boehly. “And really starts to figure out, why don’t we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams, why isn’t there an All-Star game?"


“People are talking about more money for the pyramid, in the MLB All-Star game this year we made 200m dollars from a Monday and a Tuesday. So we’re thinking we could do a North versus South All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed quite easily”, he added.