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A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization that, or a person who, takes bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies making it the world's most popular sport.

The game is played on a rectangular field with a goal at each end.

The object of the game is to score by getting the ball into the opposing goal.

The Premier League is an English professional league for men's association football clubs.

At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition.

Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League (EFL; known as "The Football League" before 2016–17).

Welsh clubs that compete in the English football league system can also qualify.

In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs.

It refers to the transferring of a player's registration from one association football club to another.

In general, the players can only be transferred during a transfer window and according to the rules set by a governing body.

Usually some sort of compensation is paid for the player's rights, which is known as a transfer fee.

When a player moves from one club to another, their old contract is terminated and they negotiate a new one with the club they are moving to, unlike in American, Canadian and Australian sports, where teams essentially trade existing player contracts.

In some cases, however, transfers can function in a similar manner to player trades, as teams can offer another player on their squad as part of the compensation.

In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between two divisions based on their performance for the completed season.

The best-ranked team(s) in the lower division are promoted to the higher division for the next season, and the worst-ranked team(s) in the higher division are relegated to the lower division for the next season.

In some leagues, playoffs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings.

This process can continue through several levels of divisions, with teams being exchanged between levels 1 and 2, levels 2 and 3, levels 3 and 4, and so on.

During the season, teams that are high enough in the league table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the promotion zone, and those at the bottom are in the relegation zone (or, colloquially, the drop zone or facing the drop).