In the world of football, there are many different leagues that attract the attention of fans from all over the world. We will compare several popular football leagues. We will look at both the level of competition and the history of these leagues to better understand how they differ and what their characteristic features are.
League comparison, as the name suggests, compares the statistics of the best football leagues. Thanks to the statistical comparison of leagues, you can check in which league the highest percentage of draws occur, and where fans watch the most goals. You can also find information about clean sheets in the given leagues.
It is a very useful tool for a bettor who, although there are no imposed betting suggestions, can draw conclusions from the statistics themselves. All of this helps players analyze the choice of a specific event in the match they are interested in and assess its probability.
The best leagues in the world offer unforgettable emotions and spectacle for fans. Thanks to comparing leagues in the context of match winners, you can check the number and percentage of matches won by the home team and the away team in a given league. You can also find the number of draws that have occurred in the given competitions and their percentage share in all played matches.
Of course, it is not surprising that clubs record the highest percentage of wins in front of their own fans. What may be surprising, however, is that the percentage of draws in most leagues is very close to the percentage of wins by the away team. The specific percentage data regarding home wins are obviously different for each league, but they are everywhere close to around 50%.
Thanks to comparing leagues for the number of goals, we can find out in which leagues the most goals are scored, and in which the fewest. In addition, we can see how goals scored in the season are distributed between home and away teams.
Among the TOP 5 leagues, England and Germany have consistently seen the most goals for years, and these two leagues are closely followed by Italian Serie A. Just a few years ago, the Spanish league was one of the most "over" leagues in Europe. Unfortunately, in recent seasons, the trend in Spanish football has reversed, and on La Liga pitches we now watch significantly fewer goals than before.
In the clean sheets statistics tab, we can see how often home and away teams did not concede a single goal in a match. Next to it is the percentage share of clean sheets in all played matches of that league. We also see the number of goalless draws and their percentage ratio to the rest of the matches.
The clean sheets statistic is indirectly related to the league comparison in the context of the number of goals. Naturally, the more goals are scored in a given league, the fewer clean sheets we see in those competitions. For this reason, leagues with the highest average number of goals per match have slightly fewer clean sheets per match than less goal-heavy leagues.
This statistic is once again related to the average number of goals scored in a given league. Competitions with the highest average goals per match have the highest percentage of matches with over 2.5 goals. Conversely, the most "under" leagues have the most matches with under 2.5 goals.
Among the TOP 5 leagues, the highest percentage of matches with +2.5 goals has belonged to the English Premier League for years. This is greatly influenced by clubs such as Manchester City, Liverpool, and Arsenal, as these teams score a huge number of goals and inflate this statistic for their league.
For many years, exotic leagues have dominated the cards-per-match statistics. The most yellow cards can be observed in South America. A record average of 7.4 cards per match is shown by the referee in the Bolivian league. The TOP 5 leagues with the highest average cards are rounded off by the Chilean Primera with an average of 5.75 cards per match.
Among the top European leagues, Chelsea recorded the most yellow cards last season. Right behind them were Las Palmas, Getafe, and Deportivo Alavés – clubs playing in the Spanish competitions. Pogoń Szczecin ranked high in eleventh place with 75 cards.
It has long been known that the biggest money in European football is earned by clubs in the Premier League. In the ranking of the 20 teams with the highest revenues, as many as 10 come from England, and recent years have only widened the gap between the leagues. Interestingly and almost absurdly, a club relegated from the Premier League receives more money than the winner of the Champions League. This does not mean, however, that the prize for the Champions League winner is modest. Winners of the most important European cups can count on the following rewards:
Prize money for clubs is closely tied to television rights prices. This is precisely why the English league clearly outpaces the other competitions in payments to clubs. The next leagues with the highest prize money for clubs are the Spanish league. However, La Liga’s advantage over Serie A and the Bundesliga is not as large as the gap between the Premier League and the other competitions.
