The Premier League had a new redistribution deal rejected by the English Football League (EFL) shortly before the bill that ushered in a regulator was passed.

The Premier League have seen their latest attempt to tweak how football’s wealth is distributed hit a roadblock. According to The Athletic, the English Football League (EFL) rejected a redistribution proposal just weeks before a landmark bill introducing an independent football regulator was passed.

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of English football’s nadir. At a time of rampant hooliganism, fatal stadium tragedies and a ban from all European competition, an editorial in The Sunday Times infamously derided football as “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people.”

More Premier League games will be shown on TV than ever before as the league’s new broadcast deal, agreed back in December 2023 and worth £6.7bn, takes effect.

According to reports in UK media, a recent proposed deal would have seen $1.14 billion (£900 million) shared by the Premier League with the rest of the English football pyramid.

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