Serie A tops world league table (1 Viewer)

[Stu]

Serie A tops world League table
Monday 11 July, 2005

Serie A is the most competitive League in the world, according to statistics released today.

Italy's top-flight pushed the English Premiership into second place and Spain’s La Liga into third, according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).

The IFFHS looked at how close the race to be crowed champions was, as well as the chase to avoid relegation and for the Champions’ League places.

The Scudetto was decided in Week 37, a week before the close of the season, while the Premiership and La Liga titles were decided well before.

They also looked at the number of foreign players in each League, as well as how highly the League is viewed from abroad, and awarded points accordingly.

Top 15
Italy 594 points
England 587
Spain 482
Argentina 478
France 472
Brazil 453
Holland 449.5
Mexico 446
Colombia 391.5
Germany 382
Portugal 373
Greece 336
Russia 322
Chile 310.5
Turkey 309

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[Mr. Gol]

This is bit of an 'empty' statistic. You can't judge how good a league is in a number. It will probably provoke premier league fans though

 

[swag]

Certainly, you can't judge by a number. But if you don't quantify it with some above-the-table method, you'd be accused of picking favorites without any grounding in objective criteria.

There's always the votes from the panel of wankers (e.g., the AP Poll in U.S. collegiate athletics), but that too has its flaws.

 

[Daddi]

Serie A is the best, no doubt. At last, damn EPL and LaLiga persons! in your face

 

[Azzurri7]

Serie A, EPL what? La Liga what? Serie A

 

[/usr/bin]

Forza Serie A!

Finally, it's where it belongs !

 

[Azzurri7]

yea baby

 

[Desmond]

It judges the elagues on competitiveness and I don't think you could doubt that Serie A is more competitive than most of the leagues mentioned if not all.

Whether it is the best league is another matter entirely.

 

[Maher]

EPL more than LIga??

Mexico more than germany??
this is stupid

 

[Bjerknes]

Well it's hard to judge a league by numbers, however the methods this organization uses have some sense behind them. If anything La Liga has just sliped behind the EPL and Serie A this year, and the two latters are on par with each other.

 

[Zlatan]

Germany behind Columbia??? Oh, how the mighty have fallen

 

[sallyinzaghi]

Its not just the numbers - this is based on the leagues' competitiveness and if you compared the past seasons, Serie A is in fact the most competitive.

 

[Fred]

++ [ originally posted by Andy ] ++
Well it's hard to judge a league by numbers, however the methods this organization uses have some sense behind them. If anything La Liga has just sliped behind the EPL and Serie A this year, and the two latters are on par with each other .

andy is that you?

 

[Bjerknes]

++ [ originally posted by fred weasley ] ++
andy is that you?

Yes, but Serie A is still by far the best league in the world and always will be. :cheesy:

 

[Maher]

Serie A is the best with la liga followed by the epl

 

[Dr-Juve]

++ [ originally posted by m_elayyan ] ++
Serie A is the best with la liga followed by the epl

Agree

 

[Dragon]

What are Colombia and Chile doing there?

They could have Panama and USA as well

 

[swag]

Columbia clubs have done well in the Copa Libertadores lately, which I am sure has helped skew the ratings for them. Once Caldas, for example, played Porto in last year's Toyota Cup and narrowly lost on PKs in what was essentially a snow bowl.

 

[Dragon]

++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++
Columbia clubs have done well in the Copa Libertadores lately, which I am sure has helped skew the ratings for them. Once Caldas, for example, played Porto in last year's Toyota Cup and narrowly lost on PKs in what was essentially a snow bowl.

Yeah I thought about that. Once Caldas also won the Copa Libertadores last year

but thats it