LA Times · Sep 2, 2025
How the English Premier League is globalizing Americans
Chelsea players celebrate, with President Trump still onstage, after their Club World Cup win in New Jersey in July. Chelsea shares owners with the Dodgers and the Lakers.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.