ABSTRACT
It also benefits the financial stability of a sport to limit the number of teams who can take part, although this is against the principles of most amateur sports since they believe in as wide an involvement as possible. Rugby Union in the UK for example has something in the order of 2000 registered clubs whilst at the same time the Football League in the UK is having a hard time preventing their league reducing from approximately 60 clubs. The theory is that if the number of top clubs is reduced and the number of spectators at least stays the same there will be more spectators at the clubs who do survive. Eliminate your competitors and so increase your market
share, obviously it is inevitable that sport becomes a market place when the financial risks and profits are so high.
