Talk:Season (sports)

There ought to be a way to unify this article with the stub about seasons in broadcasting stuck at the end of the main Season article. --Smack 00:09, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

regular season

the time when the bulk of games are played

That must be improved! These rhetorical questions may help. Is it generally true, historically and across sports and continents, that regular seasons are scheduled in advance by the leagues (as in the US majors)?

What is the difference between "league" and "cup" competitions that occur in-season? Presuming that neither one is scheduled by the leagues in advance: Do they differ regarding whether (a) clubs are responsible for arranging their own matches, (b) match-ups depend on the progress of the regular season, (c) match-ups depend on the progress of the special league/cup competition?

In other words, I hope this section may be rewritten using the concept of a schedule, perhaps a league schedule. --P64 (talk) 15:53, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

UFL?

is thre something more irrelevant that the only 5 teams United Football League (2009–) started in 2009?--Feroang (talk) 04:03, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Even though it may be the top level of professional football played in the US this fall, it's not a league of the same caliber as the rest of the table. I'd endorse removing it. —C.Fred (talk) 04:17, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Season table justification to add and stay

We can not put the near 2000 seasons in that table, for the 192 countries (UN members) in the world, and the 26 sport in the Summer Olympic Games, also the winter/snow sports, also we have not space to put the Sex Championaship that I and my friend play in saturdays.

• I suggest we use a 1.000.000 attendance by season as minimus limit, base on List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues. I guess that limit take out the UFL, and the Assoc-Football Ligue of Luxemburgo.
• I Think also we should promote internationals event season over national or provintial season.
• Finnaly the best league of that sport, because the low tier baseball season of that football-lover-country is not relevant. (Sorry for language, in every sense.)
• I suppor we do articles as "Season sports in Canada" and "Season in Rugby League" to more longer specific details tables, also we need a rule about how name that articles.--Feroang (talk) 00:46, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

unsourced

What I removed was completely unsourced but my edit was reverted. I see virtually no sources on many sections here. 66.235.168.216 (talk) 07:02, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Mid-season break

A season (as a sport term) in climate sensitive regions also have a mid-season break which could extend from a month-long to the whole winter season long (or cold season, depending on an Earth hemisphere). It is a common occurrence in the European countries' association football such as Austria, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, and many others. Unlike the western European countries that are influenced by the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, the eastern European countries climate is much colder and often influenced by a continental drift from the East or Northeast. The mid-season break sometimes makes the sports calendar or the season of those countries look like almost as the "Apentura and Clasura" system of the Southern America countries. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 16:40, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Often it is a matter of big discussion how to run a season in those countries whether like the rest of Europe (breaking a common calendar year) or following the common calendar year. On one hand synchronization of calendar with the rest of UEFA members streamlines competition throughout the continent, on the other hand the football infrastructure calls for more investments to accommodate the competition in cold periods of the year. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 16:49, 23 December 2024 (UTC)