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Apr 20, 2024 · “The gap between the Premier League and the rest has been increasing since 2018-19. In 2022-23, the gap between the top two leagues was the biggest it has ever been.”
Oct 4, 2023 · Lille picked up two, and Lyon and PSG hoovered up the rest. Serie A has been the most competitive of the big women’s leagues, with five winners in the last 10 years and eight in the last 20 ...
- Guardian Sport
- Key Findings
- Title-deciding Round
- Competition at The Top End
- No. of Different Champions in The Top Five Leagues
- No. of Different Sides to Finish in The top-four
- Defending Champions vs Promoted Sides
- Top Three vs Bottom Five
La Liga and Premier League have been responsible for producing the most exciting title races in the last decade. 4 of the last 10 title races in both leagues have been decided on the final match-day.The average gap between the champions and the runners-up has been the lowest in La Liga at 6.5 points during the past decade.However, the Spanish league is also responsible for the biggest gap between the top and the bottom. On average, the bottom-five sides in La Liga manage to pick up only 7.4 points against the top-th...It is most difficult for teams to break into the top-4 in the Premier League. Only 7 different sides have managed to do so in the last ten years. At least 9 sides have managed to achieve the same f...Every soccer fan loves a title race that goes on till the last very last game of the season. One important aspect of a competitive league is a title race which is undecided until the very last. This doesn’t happen often, but when it does, such seasons leave an imprint on the fans for decades. And for this reason, Manchester City’s last minute title...
To further analyze how difficult it is for clubs to win the various leagues and how crowded it is at the top of various leagues, we compared the end-of-season points tally of sides finishing in the 1st, 2nd and the 5th position in each league during the past decade. 1. Like our first analysis, La Liga and Premier League lead the way when we look at...
Our next criteria is to check the variety among winners and the teams finishing in European places in various leagues. This tells us about how many different sides have been able to challenge for the top places in various leagues. Thus, in this section, we compare the number of teams that have won the different leagues and the number of teams that ...
After comparing the variety among title winners, we shift our focus on the competition for the top-four places in different leagues. 1. There is hardly any difference between different leagues when you look at the data for the last five years. 2. However, when you look at the ten-year comparison, the number of Premier League sides has stayed intact...
One can argue that ahead of a new season, the defending champions are the strongest side in the league and the recently promoted sides are weakest ones. Hence, to analyze the gap between the strongest and weakest sides in these leagues, we decided to look at the betting odds of all home games played by defending champions against the promoted sides...
In this section, we further dissect the gap between the sides at both ends of various leagues. In order to do so, we looked at all the games played between the top-three and the bottom-five sides from the last ten seasons in all five leagues. The following graph shows points picked up by the bottom five sides against the eventual champions and the ...
- Football League Championship. Okay, this isn't technically a ‘top’ European league, but in terms of average attendance, the Championship ranks fifth out of all of Europe’s football leagues.
- Serie A. Serie A is Italy’s premier football league competition. To fans of European football, this may be quite a strange inclusion on this list as it contains some of the biggest clubs in the world.
- Ligue 1. Ligue 1 is the top league competition in France, and again is another league whose inclusion on this list could be hotly disputed. This argument centres on the fact that Olympique Lyon dominated the league between 2002 and 2008, claiming seven titles in a row.
- Danish Superligaen. In 1992, Denmark shocked the world by claiming victory at the European Championship, despite the fact they hadn't qualified for the tournament in the first place.
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Apr 29, 2024 · A study from The Athletic has ranked Ligue 1 Uber Eats as the most competitive league in Europe's top five divisions. Last weekend's Ligue 1 action broke a goal-scoring record which has stood since the 1976-1977 season following several high scoring encounters which have tightened both the race for Europe and the battle to avoid relegation to ...
Mar 3, 2021 · The most competitive of Europe's top five leagues over the last 15 seasons is Ligue 1 in France. Despite Paris Saint-Germain's dominance in recent years, seven different clubs have held the trophy ...
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