Sunday 11 June 2023

The 2022-23 season

 The EFCL table at the end of the 2022-23 season

01 - 154+112 - Bayern München

02 - 150+80 - Real Madrid

03 - 137+56 - FC Barcelona

04 - 127+55 - Liverpool FC

05 - 123+35 - Arsenal London

06 - 120+57 - Paris Saint-Germain

07 - 115+36 - Manchester United

08 - 113+31 - Juventus Torino

09 - 113+18 - Internazionale Milano

10 - 109+21 - Valencia CF

11 - 108+35 - Manchester City

12 - 107+19 - Borussia Dortmund

13 - 106+16 - Olympique Lyonnais

14 - 102+5 - FC Porto 

15 - 101+12 - Atlético Madrid

16 - 99+18 - AC Milan

17 - 97+13 - Chelsea London

18 - 95-10 - AS Roma

19 - 89-5 - Benfica Lisboa

20 - 88+6 - Ajax Amsterdam

21 - 85-21 - Bayer Leverkusen

22 - 81-22 - CSKA Moskva

23 - 77-18 - AS Monaco

24 - 74-21 - PSV Eindhoven

25 - 70-27 - Shakhtar Donetsk

26 - 68-33 - Olympique Marseille

27 - 68-47 - Anderlecht Bruxelles

28 - 67-32 - Glasgow Rangers

29 - 67-50 - Spartak Moskva

30 - 66-37 - Olympiacos Pirea

31 - 64-36 - Sparta Praha

32 - 64-41 - Panathinaikos Athens

33 - 63-54 - Galatasaray Istanbul

34 - 61-50 - Dynamo Kyiv

35 - 60-41 - Rosenborg Trondheim

36 - 51-70 - Celtic Glasgow

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Elite 18

01 - 72+29 - Real Madrid

02 - 67+44 - Bayern München

03 - 59+20 - Manchester City

04 - 56+18 - Liverpool FC

05 - 56+9 - FC Barcelona

06 - 51+8 - Paris Saint-Germain

07 - 51+0 - Arsenal London

08 - 50+1 - Manchester United

09 - 48-1 - Internazionale Milano

10 - 39-4 - Ajax Amsterdam

11 - 39-12 - Borussia Dortmund

12 - 38-15 - Olympique Lyonnais

13 - 37-12 - Chelsea London

14 - 37-13 - Benfica Lisboa

15 - 36-15 - Juventus Torino

16 - 33-15 - AC Milan

17 - 33-25 - FC Porto

18 - 31-17 - Atlético Madrid

Wednesday 15 June 2022

The 2021-22 season

01 153+111 GER Bayern München

02 148+74 SPA Real Madrid

03 144+70 SPA FC Barcelona

04 134+60 ENG Liverpool FC

05 124+44 ITA Juventus Torino

06 122+54 FRA Paris Saint-Germain

07 115+30 ENG Arsenal London

08 115+22 ITA Internazionale Milano

09 110+20 FRA Olympique Lyonnais

10 107+18 SPA Valencia CF

11 107+16 SPA Atlético Madrid

12 104+25 ENG Manchester City

13 103+17 ENG Manchester United

14 102+23 ITA AC Milan

15 101+13 GER Borussia Dortmund

16 99+19 ENG Chelsea London

17 99+00 POR FC Porto

18 92-08 GER Bayer Leverkusen

19 90-09 NET Ajax Amsterdam

20 87-18 ITA AS Roma

21 83-13 POR Benfica Lisboa

22 81-22 RUS CSKA Moskva

23 79-19 FRA AS Monaco

24 74-24 NET PSV Eindhoven

25 70-41 UKR Shakhtar Donetsk

26 68-47 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles

27 67-25 SCO Glasgow Rangers

28 67-50 RUS Spartak Moskva

29 65-40 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai

30 64-36 CZE Sparta Praha

31 64-38 GRE Olympiacos Pirea

32 63-54 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul

33 62-47 UKR Dynamo Kyiv

34 60-41 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim

35 59-38 FRA Olympique Marseille

36 53-64 SCO Celtic Glasgow

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Elite 18

01 69+33 ENG Liverpool FC

02 68+21 SPA Real Madrid

03 65+42 GER Bayern München

04 61+19 SPA FC Barcelona

05 55+10 ENG Manchester City

06 50+05 FRA Paris Saint-Germain

07 48+01 ITA Internazionale Milano

08 44+04 ITA Juventus Torino

09 44+07 ENG Arsenal London

10 39-02 NET Ajax Amsterdam

11 39-06 ENG Chelsea London

12 38-18 ENG Manchester United

13 37-12 SPA Atlético Madrid

14 36-13 GER Borussia Dortmund

15 36-16 FRA Olympique Lyonnais

16 36-22 POR FC Porto

17 33-18 POR Benfica Lisboa

18 32-13 ITA AC Milan


Thursday 11 March 2021

The 2020-21 season

End of 2020-2021 season (1 June 2021)


(For more information about how this works, click on "About the EFCL", on the right-hand side)

Monday 14 September 2020

The 2019-20 EFCL Season


01 GER 96+65 Bayern Munich

02 ESP 93+42 FC Barcelona

03 ESP 86+31 Real Madrid

04 ITA 84+27 Juventus Turin

05 FRA 73+18 Paris Saint-Germain

06 ESP 69+13 Atlético Madrid

07 ENG 68+09 Manchester United

08 ENG 67+08 Liverpool FC

09 ENG 67+07 Arsenal London

10 GER 66+04 Borussia Dortmund

11 ESP 66+00 Valencia CF

12 ITA 64+04 Internazionale Milan

13 ENG 61+08 Manchester City

14 ENG 61-01 Chelsea London

15 NET 60+03 Ajax Amsterdam

16 FRA 59-07 Olympique Lyonnais

17 ITA 57-18 AS Roma

18 ITA 56-05 AC Milan

19 POR 46-18 Benfica Lisbon

20 POR 44-29 FC Porto

21 GRE 41-33 Olympiacos Pireus

22 UKR 40-43 Shakhtar Donetsk

23 NET 36-33 PSV Eindhoven

24 UKR 24-52 Dynamo Kiev 

Monday 17 June 2019

The 2018-2019 EFCL season

After missing out last season, the EFCL returns with a revamped system: we still take into consideration only the last two competitive matches played between all the teams in the league, but the selection has been limited to 24 clubs, and they have been hand-picked by yours truly, using a mixture of number of overall champions league appearances since 1992 and current importance and performance of the clubs in question. This means that although Manchester City, Atlético Madrid and Shakhtar Donetsk are not among the 24 clubs with the most Champions League appearances, they have been included in the EFCL, to the detriment of Anderlecht, Leverkusen and Galatasaray, who have been dropped. Also missing are Tottenham Hotspur, whose European pedigree is still much lower than those of the other teams included, even if they have had a great season last time around. This is the final 2018-2019 EFCL table:

   W  D  L  F  A    P+GD
01 30 10 06 94 36 100+58 SPA FC Barcelona
02 26 10 10 84 53  88+31 SPA Real Madrid
03 24 12 10 65 39  84+26 ITA Juventus Turin
04 24 11 11 85 58  83+47 GER Bayern Munich
05 20 12 14 76 58  72+18 ENG Liverpool FC
06 18 16 12 72 57  70+15 FRA Paris Saint-Germain
07 16 21 09 64 37  69+27 ENG Manchester City
08 18 14 14 55 49  68+06 GER Borussia Dortmund
09 17 16 13 52 44  67+08 SPA Atlético Madrid
10 16 18 12 52 51  66+01 ITA Internazionale Milan
11 18 11 17 56 50  65+06 ENG Manchester United
12 15 20 11 55 52  65+03 SPA Valencia CF
13 17 11 18 66 65  62+01 ENG Arsenal London
14 13 13 15 60 60  59+00 NET Ajax Amsterdam
15 14 17 15 57 64  59-07 FRA Olympique Lyonnais
16 16 10 20 51 65  58-14 ITA AS Roma
17 12 21 13 50 54  57-04 ENG Chelsea London
18 11 20 15 53 60  53-07 ITA AC Milan
19 13 12 21 48 64  51-16 POR Benfica Lisbon
20 11 08 27 49 79  41-30 POR FC Porto
21 09 14 23 36 75  41-39 GRE Olympiacos Piraeus
22 06 20 20 30 61  38-31 NET PSV Eindhoven
23 04 22 20 33 82  34-49 UKR Shakhtar Donetsk
24 04 14 28 33 83  26-50 UKR Dynamo Kyiv

Some match-ups have never been played, and in that case a double 0-0 draw has been introduced as a current result. This is the case in Atlético v Man City, Lyon, Shakhtar and Dynamo (one match missing only, after they faced each other at the 1986 Cup Winners' Cup final), Valencia v Milan, Dortmund and Benfica, Man City v Inter, Benfica, PSV and Olympiacos, Chelsea v Dortmund, Lyon, Ajax and PSV, Liverpool v Shakhtar, Juventus v PSV, Milan v Dynamo, Inter v PSG and Olympiacos, Roma v PSG, Dortmund v Lyon, PSG v PSV, Shakhtar v Ajax and PSV and Olympiacos v PSV.

Barcelona top it with a considerable 12-point margin over Real Madrid. Barça have the biggest goal difference, are the top scorers and they also have the meanest defence. Were it not for that 4-0 defeat at Liverpool in the 2019 Champions League semifinal, they'd probably be European Champions too, with an even bigger EFCL margin. The bottom five are the teams from Ukraine, Greece and Portugal. Liverpool are the best English team in 5th, and Chelsea are a lowly 17th, with Milan, the 7-time European champions, at 18th.

Tuesday 16 October 2018

World Rugby League

I started this blog as a way to publish a few thoughts and home-brewed statistics about football, but I think that one of the ideas I put forward could work for rugby too, so here it is: a very simple league table made in the most traditional way there is: by compiling the last two games played by the participating sides against each other, in this case the world's top 14 rugby teams. Since draws are quite rare in rugby, I haven't bothered with number of points for a win or bonus points for types of victory. A win is a win is a win. The result doesn't look too different from the official world rankings, but at least this one has a consistent, fair, easy-to-understand basis. As of 7 February 2023:



I'm not a rugby expert at all, but thirteen games seems to be a fairly doable number for each of these international sides to play every twelve months, so why not play each other once a year? The Northern Hemisphere already has a yearly tournament in the Six Nations and the Southern in the four-team Rugby Championship, so why not add four more teams (Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and Japan), and play it as a single global round-robin tournament? You wouldn't even have to scrap the Six Nations or the Rugby Championship: they could still be played inside this global tournament, in the same way that the Calcutta Cup, for example, is contested as part of the Six Nations. After tallying all the results up, you can still give awards for the best team in each Hemisphere and proclaim a Six Nations champion, a Rugby Championship winner, a wooden-spooner, etc. Also, you could introduce promotion and relegation, so that the 14th team changes every year. As the table stands, that's bad news to Tonga, but hey, maybe you could soften the blow by having the bottom team play off against the best from anywhere else in the world for the right to compete among the top nations the following year. Meanwhile, the remaining 13 teams could be using that play-off international date to play one team each outside of the Top 14. If rugby really is serious about developing other nations, nothing does more for the cause than inviting the best in the world to play against those other countries just bubbling under the surface. The kids attending those games one day will be answering questions in the future saying that they really got their desire to play rugby on that day when New Zealand, or England, or South Africa, came to play my nation and I became... hooked.

So, does rugby have 14-15 dates a year to play internationals? That's for them to decide. If not, maybe the top division could be trimmed to 12, but that would mean losing a couple of deserving teams every season.

As for logistics, especially travelling and venues, that's for someone else to decide. Maybe small groups of three or four so that over 12-14 days they play one another at one of the participant countries? For example, England, Italy, Japan and Australia playing each other in Japan, while Scotland, France, Argentina and South Africa play in South Africa, while Ireland, Wales, Fiji and New Zealand play in Ireland? Something like that. I know that matches involving the smaller Pacific teams (Tonga, Fiji and Samoa) are difficult to organise due to a variety of issues, both economic and otherwise, but if there is a will there will be a way. The Six Nations and the Rugby Championship have got big because they have been doggedly playing every year, and the World Cup has captured everybody's imagination in a very short time of existence. If this idea is implemented with vigour and insisting on it every year, it will become great and memorable very quickly.


World League of Nations

After the European Nations League started in 2018, I thought that the tournament should be expanded to include the best teams from all over the world. However, this probably means, in strict terms, Western Europe and South America. To get the ball rolling, I have compiled the last two matches of the top 11 football international teams, and here is the resulting table.

Why eleven? Well, because it's hard to see who else, right now, would be able to get sustained results against all these eleven. Uruguay? Maybe a few years ago. Anyone else from Europe? Switzerland or Poland is maybe the best of the rest right now. Mexico? Not really. And no-one from the rest of the world is at this level. I hand-picked the teams according to a mixture of footballing tradition, current standing and staying power for generations. So, other international teams who come and go, like the Bulgaria or Romania of 1994, unless they prove themselves to be a team who consistently deliver for many years, will remain aside for now. According to FIFA, Norway were once number 2 in the world. In three separate months. The same applies to all the other teams in the world: when you beat Brazil, Germany, Italy or Argentina on a regular basis, we'll see about inclusion.

This is the current table, up to 19 December 2022, the day after the World Cup final. Matches that go to penalty shoot-outs count as a draw for both teams, regardless of who won it.

All teams are on Games Played: 20

W  D  L  F  A  P  GD
12 03 05 34 30 39+04 - 01 France
09 06 05 32 16 33+16 - 02 Netherlands
09 05 06 42 24 32+18 - 03 Spain
09 05 06 35 29 32+06 - 04 Argentina
08 05 04 28 22 32+06 - 05 Brazil
08 06 06 25 25 30+00 - 06 England
07 06 07 41 36 27+05 - 07 Germany
05 06 09 19 33 21-14 - 08 Croatia
04 08 08 20 32 20-12 - 09 Italy
04 07 09 15 25 19-10 - 10 Portugal
04 02 14 13 32 14-19 - 11 Belgium

France are clearly on top, six points ahead, with five other teams closely bunched up behind them. It is remarkable how low Italy are. Their European title win in 2021 masks many things indeed, among them how much they owe to draws, almost half of their games: they have only got four current wins in this table, two of them against Belgium. Spain, reputed to find it hard to score, have the most goals for and a massive +18 goal difference, courtesy mainly of two huge wins against Argentina (6-1) and Germany (6-0). Belgium, though, at the tail end of their golden generation, look in risk of falling way behind and of being removed from this simulation soon. Can anyone find another team in the world who would come last in this table?

So, this is what a World League, group A1 could look like. I will update this regularly.

Tuesday 26 June 2018

Every penalty shoot-out in full internationals

This is a list of every penalty shoot-out in full, senior, male internationals in major competitions since this rule was introduced in the 1970s. The major competitions included (and their qualifying stages) are the World Cup (WC), the Confederations Cup (CC) and the regional tournaments for each football confederation: the European Championship (EC), the different confederations' Nations League (NL) the Africa Cup of Nations (AN), the Copa América (CA), the CONCACAF Gold Cup (GC), the Asian Cup (AC) and the Oceania Football Cup (OC). No Olympic teams or smaller regional competitions have been included. After the list and the summary, you can find a brief analysis of the results.

Competition - Stage - Date - Result after 120 minutes - Shoot-out result - Winner - Loser

EC Fn 1976-06-20 (2-2) 5-3 Czechoslovakia - West Germany
AN SF 1980-03-19 (2-2) 4-2 Algeria - Egypt
EC 3P 1980-06-21 (1-1) 9-8 Czechoslovakia - Italy
AN Fn 1982-03-19 (1-1) 7-6 Ghana - Libya
WC SF 1982-07-08 (3-3) 5-4 West Germany - France
AN SF 1984-03-14 (2-2) 8-7 Nigeria - Egypt
AN SF 1984-03-14 (0-0) 5-4 Cameroon - Algeria
EC SF 1984-06-24 (1-1) 5-4 Spain - Denmark
AC SF 1984-12-13 (1-1) 5-4 Saudi Arabia - Iran
AC 3P 1984-12-16 (1-1) 5-3 Kuwait - Iran
AN Fn 1986-03-21 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Cameroon
WC QF 1986-06-21 (1-1) 4-3 France - Brazil
WC QF 1986-06-21 (0-0) 4-1 West Germany - Mexico
WC QF 1986-06-22 (1-1) 5-4 Belgium - Spain
AN SF 1988-03-23 (1-1) 9-8 Nigeria - Algeria
AN 3P 1988-03-26 (1-1) 4-3 Algeria - Morocco
AC 3P 1988-12-17 (0-0) 3-0 Iran - China
AC Fn 1988-12-18 (0-0) 4-3 Saudi Arabia - South Korea
WC 8F 1990-06-25 (0-0) 5-4 Ireland - Romania
WC QF 1990-06-30 (0-0) 3-2 Argentina - Yugoslavia
WC SF 1990-07-03 (1-1) 4-3 Argentina - Italy
WC SF 1990-07-04 (1-1) 4-3 West Germany - England
GC Fn 1991-07-07 (0-0) 4-3 USA - Honduras
AN SF 1992-01-23 (0-0) 3-1 Ivory Coast - Cameroon
AN Fn 1992-01-26 (0-0)11-10Ivory Coast - Ghana
EC SF 1992-06-22 (2-2) 5-4 Denmark - Netherlands
AC 3P 1992-11-08 (1-1) 4-3 China - UA Emirates
CA QF 1993-06-26 (1-1) 5-3 Colombia - Uruguay
CA QF 1993-06-27 (1-1) 6-5 Argentina - Brazil
CA SF 1993-07-01 (0-0) 6-5 Argentina - Colombia
AN SF 1994-04-06 (2-2) 4-2 Nigeria - Ivory Coast
WC 8F 1994-07-05 (1-1) 3-1 Bulgaria - Mexico
WC QF 1994-07-10 (2-2) 5-4 Suecia - Romania
WC Fn 1994-07-17 (0-0) 3-2 Brazil - Italy
CC 3P 1995-01-13 (1-1) 5-4 Mexico - Nigeria
CA QF 1995-07-16 (1-1) 5-4 Colombia - Paraguay
CA QF 1995-07-17 (0-0) 4-1 USA - Mexico
CA QF 1995-07-17 (2-2) 4-2 Brazil - Argentina
CA Fn 1995-07-23 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Brazil
AN QF 1996-01-28 (1-1) 4-1 Tunisia - Gabon
EC QF 1996-06-22 (0-0) 4-2 England - Spain
EC QF 1996-06-22 (0-0) 5-4 France - Netherlands
EC SF 1996-06-26 (0-0) 6-5 Czech Republic - France
EC SF 1996-06-26 (1-1) 6-5 Germany - England
AC SF 1996-12-18 (0-0) 4-3 Saudi Arabia - Iran
AC 3P 1996-12-21 (1-1) 3-2 Iran - Kuwait
AC Fn 1996-12-21 (0-0) 4-2 Saudi Arabia - UA Emirates
CA QF 1997-06-22 (1-1) 4-3 Mexico - Ecuador
AN QF 1998-02-21 (1-1) 8-7 Burkina Faso - Tunisia
AN QF 1998-02-21 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Ivory Coast
AN 3P 1998-02-27 (4-4) 4-1 DR Congo - Burkina Faso
WC 8F 1998-06-30 (2-2) 4-3 Argentina - England
WC QF 1998-07-03 (0-0) 4-3 France - Italy
WC SF 1998-07-07 (1-1) 4-2 Brazil - Netherlands
CA QF 1999-07-10 (3-3) 4-2 Mexico - Peru
CA QF 1999-07-10 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Paraguay
CA SF 1999-07-13 (1-1) 5-3 Uruguay - Chile
AN 3P 2000-02-12 (2-2) 4-3 South Africa - Tunisia
AN Fn 2000-02-13 (2-2) 4-3 Cameroon - Nigeria
GC QF 2000-02-19 (2-2) 2-1 Colombia - USA
EC SF 2000-06-29 (0-0) 3-1 Italy - Netherlands
CA 3P 2001-07-28 (2-2) 5-4 Honduras - Uruguay
GC QF 2002-01-26 (1-1) 6-5 Canada - Martinique
GC QF 2002-01-27 (0-0) 4-2 South Korea - Mexico
GC SF 2002-01-30 (0-0) 4-2 USA - Canada
AN Fn 2002-02-10 (0-0) 3-2 Cameroon - Senegal
WC 8F 2002-06-16 (1-1) 3-2 Spain - Ireland
WC QF 2002-06-22 (0-0) 5-3 South Korea - Spain
AN SF 2004-02-11 (1-1) 5-3 Tunisia - Nigeria
EC QF 2004-06-24 (2-2) 6-5 Portugal - England
EC QF 2004-06-26 (0-0) 5-4 Netherlands - Sweden
CA SF 2004-07-21 (1-1) 5-3 Brazil - Uruguay
CA Fn 2004-07-25 (2-2) 4-2 Brazil - Argentina
AC QF 2004-07-30 (2-2) 4-3 Bahrain - Uzbekistan
AC QF 2004-07-31 (1-1) 4-3 Japan - Jordan
AC SF 2004-08-03 (1-1) 4-3 China - Iran
CC SF 2005-06-26 (1-1) 6-5 Argentina - Mexico
GC QF 2005-07-17 (1-1) 5-3 Panama - South Africa
GC Fn 2005-07-24 (0-0) 3-1 USA - Panama
AN QF 2006-02-04 (1-1)12-11Ivory Coast - Cameroon
AN QF 2006-02-04 (1-1) 6-5 Nigeria - Tunisia
AN Fn 2006-02-10 (0-0) 4-2 Egypt - Ivory Coast
WC 8F 2006-06-26 (0-0) 3-0 Ukraine - Switzerland
WC QF 2006-06-30 (1-1) 4-2 Germany - Argentina
WC QF 2006-07-01 (0-0) 3-1 Portugal - England
WC Fn 2006-07-09 (1-1) 5-3 Italy - France
CA SF 2007-07-10 (2-2) 5-4 Brazil - Uruguay
AC QF 2007-07-21 (1-1) 4-3 Japan - Australia
AC QF 2007-07-22 (0-0) 4-2 South Korea - Iran
AC SF 2007-07-25 (0-0) 4-3 Iraq - South Korea
AC 3P 2007-07-28 (0-0) 6-5 South Korea - Japan
EC QF 2008-06-20 (1-1) 3-1 Turkey - Croatia
EC QF 2008-06-22 (0-0) 4-2 Spain - Italy
GC SF 2009-07-23 (1-1) 5-3 Mexico - Costa Rica
AN QF 2010-01-25 (0-0) 5-4 Nigeria - Zambia
WC 8F 2010-06-29 (0-0) 5-3 Paraguay - Japan
WC QF 2010-07-02 (1-1) 4-2 Uruguay - Ghana
AC SF 2011-01-25 (2-2) 3-0 Japan - South Korea
GC QF 2011-06-18 (1-1) 4-2 Honduras - Costa Rica
GC QF 2011-06-19 (1-1) 5-3 Panama - El Salvador
CA QF 2011-07-16 (1-1) 5-4 Uruguay - Argentina
CA QF 2011-07-17 (0-0) 2-0 Paraguay - Brazil
CA SF 2011-07-20 (0-0) 5-3 Paraguay - Venezuela
AN QF 2012-02-05 (1-1) 5-4 Mali - Gabon
AN Fn 2012-02-12 (0-0) 8-7 Zambia - Ivory Coast
EC QF 2012-06-24 (0-0) 4-2 Italy - England
EC SF 2012-06-27 (0-0) 4-2 Spain - Portugal
AN QF 2013-02-02 (1-1) 3-1 Mali - South Africa
AN SF 2013-02-06 (1-1) 3-2 Burkina Faso - Ghana
CC SF 2013-06-27 (0-0) 7-6 Spain - Italy
CC 3P 2013-06-30 (2-2) 3-2 Italy - Uruguay
WC 8F 2014-06-28 (1-1) 3-2 Brazil - Chile
WC 8F 2014-06-29 (1-1) 5-3 Costa Rica - Greece
WC QF 2014-07-05 (0-0) 4-3 Netherlands - Costa Rica
WC SF 2014-07-09 (0-0) 4-2 Argentina - Netherlands
AC QF 2015-01-23 (3-3) 7-6 Iraq - Iran
AC QF 2015-01-23 (1-1) 5-4 UA Emirates - Japan
AN 3P 2015-02-07 (0-0) 4-2 DR Congo - Equatorial Guinea
AN Fn 2015-02-08 (0-0) 9-8 Ivory Coast - Ghana
CA QF 2015-06-26 (0-0) 5-4 Argentina - Colombia
CA QF 2015-06-27 (1-1) 4-3 Paraguay - Brazil
CA Fn 2015-07-04 (0-0) 4-1 Chile - Argentina
GC QF 2015-07-19 (1-1) 6-5 Panama - Trinidad and Tobago
GC 3P 2015-07-25 (1-1) 3-2 Panama - USA
OC Fn 2016-06-11 (0-0) 4-2 New Zealand - Papua New Guinea
CA QF 2016-06-17 (0-0) 4-2 Colombia - Peru
EC 8F 2016-06-25 (1-1) 5-4 Poland - Switzerland
CA Fn 2016-06-26 (0-0) 4-2 Chile - Argentina
EC QF 2016-06-30 (1-1) 5-3 Portugal - Poland
EC QF 2016-07-02 (1-1) 6-5 Germany - Italy
AN QF 2017-01-28 (0-0) 5-4 Cameroon - Senegal
AN QF 2017-02-01 (1-1) 4-3 Egypt - Burkina Faso
CC SF 2017-06-28 (0-0) 3-0 Chile - Portugal
WC 8F 2018-07-01 (1-1) 4-2 Russia - Spain
WC 8F 2018-07-01 (1-1) 3-2 Croatia - Denmark
WC 8F 2018-07-03 (1-1) 4-3 England - Colombia
WC QF 2018-07-07 (2-2) Croatia - Russia
AN 8F 2019-01-20 (1-1) 4-2 Vietnam - Jordan
AN 8F 2019-01-21 (0-0) 4-2 Australia - Uzbekistan
NL 3P 2019-06-09 (0-0) 6-5 England - Switzerland
CA QF 2019-06-27 (0-0) 4-3 Brazil - Paraguay
CA QF 2019-06-28 (0-0) 5-4 Chile - Colombia
CA QF 2019-06-29 (0-0) 5-4 Peru - Uruguay
GC QF 2019-06-29 (1-1) 5-4 Mexico - Costa Rica
AN 8F 2019-07-05 (1-1) 4-1 Benin - Morocco
AN 8F 2019-07-07 (2-2) 4-2 Madagascar - DR Congo
AN 8F 2019-07-08 (1-1) 5-4 Tunisia - Ghana
AN QF 2019-07-11 (1-1) 4-3 Algeria - Ivory Coast
EC PO 2020-10-08 (0-0) 4-2 Slovakia - Ireland
EC PO 2020-10-08 (0-0) 5-3 Scotland - Israel
EC PO 2020-10-08 (1-1) 4-3 Northern Ireland - Bosnia
EC PO 2020-11-12 (1-1) 5-4 Scotland - Serbia
EC 8F 2021-06-28 (3-3) 5-4 Switzerland - France
EC QF 2021-07-02 (1-1) 3-1 Spain - Switzerland
CA QF 2021-07-03 (0-0) 4-2 Colombia - Uruguay
EC SF 2021-07-06 (1-1) 4-2 Italy - Spain
EC SF 2021-07-06 (1-1) 3-2 Argentina - Colombia 
EC Fn 2021-07-11 (1-1) 3-2 Italy - England
AN 8F 2022-01-23 (1-1) 7-6 Burkina Faso - Gabon
AN 8F 2022-01-26 (0-0) 5-4 Egypt - Ivory Coast 
AN 8F 2022-01-26 (0-0) 6-5 Equatorial Guinea - Mali
AN SF 2022-02-05 (0-0) 3-1 Egypt - Cameroon
AN 3P 2022-02-05 (3-3) 5-3 Cameroon - Burkina Faso
AN Fn 2022-02-06 (0-0) 4-2 Senegal - Egypt
WC QP 2022-03-29 (1-1) 3-1 Senegal - Egypt
WC QP 2022-06-13 (0-0) 5-4 Australia - Peru
WC 8F 2022-12-05 (1-1) 3-1 Croatia - Japan
WC 8F 2022-12-06 (0-0) 2-0 Morocco - Spain
WC QF 2022-12-09 (1-1) 4-2 Croatia - Brazil
WC QF 2022-12-09 (2-2) 4-3 Argentina - Netherlands
WC Fn 2022-12-18 (3-3) 4-2 Argentina - France
GC qt 2023-06-16 (1-1) 3-2 Saint Kitts and Nevis - Curacao
GC qt 2023-06-17 (1-1) 5-3 Guyana - Grenada
GC qt 2023-06-17 (0-0) 4-3 Puerto Rico - Suriname
NL Fn 2023-06-18 (0-0) 5-4 Spain - Croatia
GC qt 2023-06-20 (1-1) 4-2 Saint Kitts and Nevis - French Guiana
GC QF 2023-07-10 (2-2) 3-2 USA - Canada
GC SF 2023-07-12 (1-1) 5-4 Panama - USA
AC 8F 2024-01-28 (1-1) 5-3 Tajikistan - United Arab Emirates
AN 8F 2024-01-28 (1-1) 8-7 DR Congo - Egypt
AN 8F 2024-01-29 (1-1) 5-4 Ivory Coast - Senegal
AC 8F 2024-01-30 (1-1) 4-2 South Korea - Saudi Arabia
AC 8F 2024-01-31 (1-1) 5-3 Iran - Syria
AC QF 2024-02-03 (1-1) 3-2 Qatar - Uzbekistan
AN QF 2024-02-03 (0-0) 2-1 South Africa - Cape Verde
AN SF 2024-02-07 (1-1) 4-2 Nigeria - South Africa
AN 3P 2024-02-10 (0-0) 6-5 South Africa - DR Congo
EC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 4-2 Georgia - Greece
GC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 4-2 British Virgin Islands - US Virgin Islands
EC QF 2024-03-26 (0-0) 5-4 Poland - Wales
GC QF 2024-03-26 (1-1) 4-3 Anguilla - Turks And Caicos

Results by country, in alphabetical order: won - lost - differential - country

3 2 +1 Algeria
1 0 +1 Anguilla
11 6 +5 Argentina (most played, most won)
2 1 +1 Australia
1 0 +1 Bahrain
1 0 +1 Belgium
1 0 +1 Benin
0 1 -1 Bosnia
8 6 +2 Brazil
1 0 +1 British Virgin Islands
1 0 +1 Bulgaria
3 3  0 Burkina Faso
5 4 +1 Cameroon
1 2 -1 Canada
0 1 -1 Cape Verde
4 2 +2 Chile
2 1 +1 China
5 5  0 Colombia
1 4 -3 Costa Rica
4 2 +2 Croatia
0 1 -1 Curacao
3 0 +3 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic
3 2 +1 DR Congo
1 2 -1 Denmark
0 1 -1 Ecuador
6 5 +1 Egypt
0 1 -1 El Salvador
3 7 -4 England (joint most lost, joint worst balance)
1 1  0 Equatorial Guinea
3 5 -2 France
0 1 -1 French Guiana
0 3 -3 Gabon
1 5 -4 Ghana (joint worst balance)
1 0 +1 Georgia
6 1 +5 Germany / West Germany (best balance)
0 2 -2 Greece
0 1 -1 Grenada
1 0 +1 Guyana
2 1 +1 Honduras
3 6 -3 Iran
2 0 +2 Iraq
1 2 -1 Ireland
0 1 -1 Israel
6 7 -1 Italy (joint most lost)
5 6 -1 Ivory Coast
3 4 -1 Japan
0 2 -2 Jordan
1 1  0 Kuwait
0 1 -1 Libya
1 0 +1 Madagascar
2 1 +1 Mali
5 5  0 Mexico
1 2 -1 Morocco
0 1 -1 Martinique
2 6 -4 Netherlands (joint worst balance)
6 3 +3 Nigeria
1 0 +1 New Zealand
1 0 +1 Northern Ireland
5 1 +4 Panama
4 3 +1 Paraguay
1 3 -2 Peru
0 1 -1 Papua New Guinea
2 1 +1 Poland
3 2 +1 Portugal
1 0 +1 Puerto Rico
1 0 +1 Qatar
0 2 -2 Romania
1 1  0 Russia
2 0 +2 Saint Kitts and Nevis
4 1 +3 Saudi Arabia
2 0 +2 Scotland
2 3  -1 Senegal
0 1 -1 Serbia
1 0 +1 Slovakia
3 3  0 South Africa
5 3 +2 South Korea
7 6 +1 Spain
0 1 -1 Suriname
1 1  0 Sweden
1 4 -3 Switzerland
0 1 -1 Syria
1 0 +1 Tajikistan
0 1 -1 Trinidad and Tobago
3 3  0 Tunisia
1 0 +1 Turkey
0 1 -1 Turks And Caicos
1 3 -2 United Arab Emirates
1 0 +1 Ukraine
5 7 -2 Uruguay (joint most lost)
5 3 +2 USA
0 1 -1 US Virgin Islands
0 3 -3 Uzbekistan
0 1 -1 Venezuela
1 0 +1 Vietnam
0 1 -1 Wales
0 1 -1 Yugoslavia
1 1  0 Zambia

Penalty shoot-outs have sometimes been described as coin-flips, and these compiled results mostly bear that out, with a few outliers. The more times you flip a coin, the more likely it is that you'll get a 50-50 result between heads and tails, and the same seems to happen with penalty shoot-outs. For example, if you hear that Argentina has lost as many as six penalty shoot-outs in their history, that sounds bad, but on the other hand they have won eleven, which shows the other side of the story (or the coin).

Argentina are, in fact, the team that has played and has won the most penalty shoot-outs ever so far, and at the same time are third in the "most lost" category : their tally is P17 W11 L6. Uruguay have played 11 and their record is 5-7, and this result is as close to 50-50 as it can be without being exactly half and half after being involved twelve times. Mexico and Colombia have played 10, with a result of won 5 lost 5 for both of them. Spain are the European nation that has been involved in the most shoot-outs, 13, and they are 7-6. This shows that the more you take part in penalty shoot-outs, the more the outcomes balance themselves out. However, it is true that there are a few outliers, as you can see below.

In order to put this into context, the most useful indicator is how many more shoot-outs a team has won that they have lost or vice-versa, and that's reflected on the list with a +2, -1, 0, etc. Of the 85 national teams ever involved in a penalty shoot-out in major competitions (male, senior teams only), only 14 present a differential of +3, -3 or wider:

+5 Argentina, West Germany / Germany
+4 Panama
+3 Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia
-3 Costa Rica, Gabon, Iran, Switzerland, Uzbekistan
-4 England, Ghana, Netherlands

South America has got three of the top four nations most involved in penalty shoot-outs, and four of the top six. This is largely due to the frequency with which they play their regional tournament, the Copa América, every two years, and the evenness of the playing field in their confederation, which leads to a lot of drawn matches. Saudi Arabia boasted an impressive 4-0 until 2024, when they lost to South Korea, with the Czechs 3-0 up, including two of those by Czechoslovakia (Slovakia as independent country is 0-1 down). No-one has lost more penalty shoot-outs than Italy (7), including their first four, although once they won a World Cup final this way, in 2006 (and lost another one, in 1994), and the Euros in 2021. Uruguay and England joined them on 7 lost in 2021. The Netherlands were 0-4 down until 2004, while Switzerland were 0-3 until they beat France in 2021, but then they lost to Spain in their very next game to remain on -3. Germany lost their first ever shoot-out (and anyone's first ever), but then they have won the next six on the trot. Conversely, Ghana won their first ever, back in 1982, but have lost all five subsequent ones. Gabon and Uzbekistan have lost all three they have played. England propped the differential table on 1 won and 6 lost (-5, the worst differential ever reached by anyone) until they beat Colombia in 2018 and Switzerland in 2019. In 2022 Egypt went to four penalty shoot-outs in less than two months, three at the Africa Cup of Nations in February and one at a World Cup qualifier in March. They won the first two and lost the other two, both against Senegal, who, by winning them, became African champions and qualified for the Qatar World Cup. Then Senegal lost their next shoot-out while defending their African title in 2024. France have lost two World Cup finals on penalties, to Italy in 2006 and to Argentina in 2022.

Most played:
17 Argentina
13 Brazil, Italy, Spain
12 Uruguay
11 Egypt, Ivory Coast
10 Colombia, England, Mexico
9 Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria
8 France, South Korea, USA

Most won:
11 Argentina
8 Brazil
7 Spain
6 Egypt, West Germany / Germany, Nigeria, Italy
5 Cameroon, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Panama, South Korea, Uruguay, USA
4 Paraguay, Saudi Arabia

Most lost:
7 England, Italy, Uruguay
6 Argentina, Iran, Ivory Coast, Spain
5 Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ghana, Mexico, Netherlands
4 Cameroon, Costa Rica, Switzerland

Thursday 8 December 2016

The World Cup and the Champions League should go for 64 teams

(This is an idea first posted here in 2016)

Over the last few months there has been some debate about possible modifications to the number of entrants in the World Cup and the Champions League. My opinion about this is simple: if you are going to increase the number beyond 32, for example 48, then you're better off running both competitions with 64 participating teams. Here are my reasons:

1) With 64, twice the number of current teams will be involved. This seems obvious enough, but this is also the number one reason why it should be done. Every time these two tournaments are held, there are some prestigious teams that are left out just because there are not enough places for them. Doubling the number of participants would help more of these teams to qualify more often. This also means many more fans in many more countries would be included and would enjoy these tournaments. And when you include more teams, you generate increased interest across the whole country where that team is from. Ask any Polish or Scottish fans, for example, whether their interest is the same in a World Cup or Champions League group stage when they have a team present or when they don't.

2) The overall duration of the competitions would not be altered significantly. Just one more matchday would be needed in the World Cup (to accommodate an extra elimination round after the group stage), and two extra days in the Champions League, as compared to now. This would mean 8 matches instead of the current 7 in the World Cup, and 15 in the Champions League instead of 13. Given that the current Champions League quarter-finals are played over eight different days instead of the minimum four (four Tuesdays and four Wednesdays in February and March), the dates needed are already available on the international calendar. And also, let's remember that during four seasons at the turn of the century there was a SECOND 6-game group stage after the first, taking a total of 17 matches for the competition to be completed. This was later trimmed back to the current 13 games, but 15 over 9 months is feasible, and it is a very small sacrifice in order to double the number of teams participating. Besides, in the case of the World Cup, the 48-team enlargement now approved by FIFA also would need an 8-match schedule anyway, because of the new 32-team second round, so if you're going to block off an 8-game chunk of the international calendar for the World Cup, at least make that length of time count, and use it to its maximum effect. I think that using an extra week of the international calendar every FOUR years is not that big a sacrifice for the price of DOUBLE the nations to be included.

3) Worrying about "diluting the quality" is a non-issue. Anyone who watches football knows that you simply don't know how "good" the next match you watch is going to be, whatever the "quality" of the teams involved is, and you don't know either where the next thoroughly enjoying crowd-pleaser is going to come from. We've all seen a disappointing Real Madrid v Barcelona, an underwhelming Liverpool v Manchester United or a boring Italy v Germany. And we've also seen an entertaining Swansea v Crystal Palace, or an eventful Portugal v Hungary, games which maybe wouldn't be billed as "of the highest quality" before the fact. Having fewer matches does not mean they are going to be better games, and conversely, more matches do not mean they are all going to be worse. Every fan of each team is going to find their own games interesting, whatever the "quality" of the play, and then they will judge how interesting the rest of the matches are to them, according to their own time and inclination.

4) "Bloated" is the word you might have blurted out already. Yes, it would be difficult to watch every match in an enlarged World Cup like this (and I have watched EVERY World Cup match on TV since I was 10), but no-one is asking you to. As an everyday fan, do you watch every match in the current Champions League, or in your current domestic club competitions? No, and nobody will say you're a poor football fan if you don't. I know that it is a great experience being able to watch every single match of the World Cup, which is just about doable with the current number of games, but with double the number of matches to deal with, you can just concentrate on the ones you're interested in (or just actually able to watch), and then catch up with the remainder through recorded viewing or highlights packages... which is what you're doing now with the Champions league anyway, and with your local national leagues and cups. Not to mention the Olympic Games, where interest in specific sports varies a lot depending on where you come from, and therefore your watching experience. 

5) 48 is not a good number to organise a knock-out competition. Reducing 48 to 32 relies on some third-placed teams from groups of four qualifying, and this has been shown already as being unfair to teams playing first. With groups of three teams and two going through, it would be even worse, with huge risks of collusion on the final match day [apparently this possibility has been abandoned now]. And, if you're going to have a round of 32, then just have a 64-team group stage with the top two in each group going through. At the 2022 World Cup FIFA president Gianni Infantino said that the 4-team, 2-go-through format could be very thrilling, and this time it was, but it will not be the same if half of the third-placed teams make it through. The 64-team format would give everyone more of what they enjoy from a football competition: being able to take part in it more often as a player or a fan, for a start, and also many more dramatic elimination matches. The enlarged World Cup would have an extra 16-game last-32 round, and the Champions League would also have an extra 16 two-legged last-32 round. In fact, this expansion would make the Champions League elimination rounds as big (in terms of number of clubs participating in them) as the old European Cup seasons until 1992. You would be able to recapture the magic of those 32-team competitions of pure home-and-away football, after the 64-team group stage.

6) The enlarged number of participants would mean that big teams miss out less often (remember England, the Netherlands, France, Milan or Chelsea in previous years), while mid-ranking nations and clubs would qualify more frequently, rather than just once every three or four tournaments, and lower-ranked teams would also be able to take part more often than until now. This would even improve the chances of new Cinderella stories like those of Iceland, Jamaica, Anorthosis or Ludogorets in recent times. Depending on who you support, you know how hard it is when you don't qualify, and you also know that it is not the same when you have to watch the competition from the outside. Inclusion endeavours are a big thing in today's society, and rightly so. Let's make it happen.

7) Stadia and organisation wouldn't be a problem in the Champions League: Europe already has a second competition running, the Europa League, which shows that the whole continent is able to run many mid-week matches across many countries simultaneously without problems. Now, imagine many of those games (like this season's Manchester United v Barcelona) being played in the Champions League instead of the Europa League. It just isn't the same, and don't the players and fans know it!

As for the World Cup, I think that too much is being made of the hosting problems. The enlarged 64-team World Cup would mean 127 football matches over 6 weeks. That's fewer than the number of matches being played, for example, in England's domestic top three divisions (136 games) over just four weekends. And over those four weekends there are many more football matches being played in lower divisions at the same time, and this happens all throughout the season, often twice a week, for nine months, while the rest of the footballing countries do the same, at the same time. That's thousands of football games every few days, and it works. So don't tell me that hosting 127 matches, never more than 6 a day, over less than a month and a half is too hard. I have never been involved in the organisation of a big sporting tournament, so I do reckon there will be difficulties to deal with regarding travelling fans, rooms to stay the night, fan zones, transport, policing and all that, but those shouldn't be insurmountable, especially when you see what the Olympic Games manage to cram in just two weeks over dozens of sports in and around a single city. The answer to this would be: for the first few newly-enlarged tournaments at least, choose dependable hosts with ready-made stadia and good tourism infrastructure already in place. The USA, Spain, England, Japan, Mexico, would all be able to do it, and if not, then co-host sensibly. I heard often that the 2002 Japan-South Korea World Cup was "like hosting two different World Cups at the same time". Well, then you're doing it wrong. Europe hosted it continent-wide for their own competition in 2021. But for a 64-team tournament, maybe Italy could host 4 of the 16 groups, Spain another 4, England 4 more and Portugal the remaining 4 (I'm just leaving Germany and France out of the example as the two most recent European World Cup hosts, but they could be included too). Then, each of those four host nations would get 4 round-of-32 matches, 2 round-of-16 games, 1 quarter final and then each of them either one semifinal, or the 3rd-place play-off, or the final. Sorted. Besides, this four-country hosting system could also apply to other parts of the world. And I'm sure there are many more solutions to this, including co-hosting between continents too (how about a Mediterranean World Cup across Spain, Italy, Greece, France, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, hosting two groups each, for example, or a CONCACAF-CONMEBOL effort all the way from Canada to Chile). Anyway, my point is that this problem, if it really is one, shouldn't be a deterrent.

Carbon footprint, I hear you say? Just stop moving teams around for every game. Spreading the 2021 Euros around the whole continent was a great idea, but UEFA mangled the execution badly by having teams jet to and fro all the time. For every group, find two stadia which are reasonably close to one another (Gijón and Oviedo, for example, at Spain '82, or Vienna and Budapest in continental terms) and play the whole group phase there only. Teams would be better rested from less travel, fans could plan a whole week-long stay for the duration of the group stages at least, then close un-needed venues gradually to converge on just four or five grounds for the latter stages.

And finally, to give you an example of how all this would look like, here's a list of a "virtual" group stage for each competition.

In the Champions League (Russian teams not included)

From the top 4 UEFA-ranked nations: 6 teams each (24 teams)

 1 SPA Real Madrid
 2 SPA FC Barcelona
 3 SPA Atlético Madrid
 4 SPA Sevilla
 5 SPA Valencia
 6 SPA Villarreal
 7 ENG Manchester United
 8 ENG Arsenal
 9 ENG Chelsea
10 ENG Liverpool
11 ENG Manchester City
12 ENG Tottenham
13 GER Bayern Munich
14 GER Borussia Dortmund
15 GER Bayer Leverkusen
16 GER Leipzig
17 GER Wolfsburg
18 GER Frankfurt
19 ITA AC Milan
20 ITA Juventus
21 ITA Lazio
22 ITA Roma
23 ITA Napoli
24 ITA Inter

Nations ranked 5 and 6: 5 teams each (10 teams)

25 POR FC Porto
26 POR Benfica
27 POR Sporting Lisbon
28 POR Braga
29 POR Guimaraes
30 FRA Lyon
31 FRA Marseille
32 FRA Paris Saint-Germain
33 FRA Monaco
34 FRA Lille

Nations ranked 7 and 8: 4 teams each (8 teams)

35 NET Ajax
36 NET PSV
37 NET Feyenoord
38 NET Twente
39 BEL Club Brugge
40 BEL Union SG
41 BEL Anderlecht
42 BEL Antwerp

Nations ranked 9 and 10: 3 teams each (6 teams)

43 AUT RB Salzburg
44 NET Sturm Graz
45 NET Austria Vienna
46 SCO Celtic
47 SCO Rangers
48 SCO Hearts

Nations ranked 11 and 12: 2 teams each (4 teams)

49 UKR Shakhtar
50 UKR Dynamo Kyiv
51 TUR Galatasaray
52 TUR Fenerbahçe

Rest of nations: 12 places to play for in preliminary rounds, from which these teams could qualify:

53 DEN Midtjylland
54 CYP APOEL
55 SER Partizan Belgrade
56 CZE Sparta Prague
57 CRO Dinamo Zagreb
58 SWI FC Zürich
59 GRE Olympiacos
60 ISR Maccabi Tel-Aviv
61 NOR Rosenborg
62 SWE Malmö FF
63 BUL Ludogorets
64 ROM Steaua Bucharest

Obviously, this distribution can be tinkered with. For example, there could be more nations represented by at least one club and fewer nations with multiple clubs, but that's minutia to be decided later. Example of resulting groups:

01 Bayern - Sevilla - APOEL - Shakhtar
02 Man City - Valencia - Austria Vienna - Rangers
03 Liverpool - Villarreal - Sturm Graz - Dynamo Kyiv
04 Chelsea - Salzburg - Hearts - Galatasaray
05 Real Madrid - Tottenham - Antwerp - Malmö
06 PSG - Leverkusen - Anderlecht - Fenerbahçe
07 Man United - Leipzig - Union SG - Midtjylland
08 Barcelona - Wolfsburg - Celtic - Steaua
09 Juventus - Frankfurt - Brugge - Partizan
10 Dortmund - Lazio - Twente - Sparta Prague
11 Inter - Sporting - Feyenoord - Dinamo Zagreb
12 Roma - Braga - PSV - Zürich
13 Atlético - Napoli - Lille - Olympiacos
14 Porto - Lyon - Ajax - Maccabi Tel-Aviv
15 Milan - Benfica - Marseille - Rosenborg
16 Arsenal - Guimaraes - Monaco - Ludogorets

Not bad, I think.

Now for an example of a 64-team World Cup. To start with, I believe that in international competition terms (or at the very least for World Cup purposes), football should be divided into just four regions: Europe, Africa, the Americas (North, Central, South and Caribbean) and Oceania/Asia. Each of those regions would have roughly the same number of teams (around 50-60), so qualification rounds would last more or less the same amount of time. Each region could have 14 guaranteed places (56 total), and the last 8 would come from inter-continental play-offs, which would be the fairest way to see which region deserves more. Another way would be to do it by the FIFA rankings, which would yield, as of October 2022, 32 places for Europe, 11 for Africa, 15 for the Americas and just 6 to OceAsia. I would be OK with that, but there should be more games between teams from different continents to refine the rankings.

Going by FIFA Rankings (Oct 2022):

Europe (32): 2 Belgium, 4 France, 5 England, 6 Italy, 7 Spain, 8 Netherlands, 9 Portugal, 10 Denmark, 11 Germany, 12 Croatia, 15 Switzerland, 19 Wales, 21 Serbia, 25 Sweden, 26 Poland, 27 Ukraine, 33 Russia, 34 Austria, 35 Czech Republic, 36 Hungary, 40 Scotland, 42 Norway, 45 Turkey, 49 Ireland, 52 Greece, 53 Romania, 55 Slovakia, 56 Finland, 58 Bosnia, 59 Northern Ireland, 62 Iceland, 63 Slovenia

Africa (11): 18 Senegal, 22 Morocco, 30 Tunisia, 32 Nigeria, 37 Algeria, 39 Egypt, 43 Cameroon, 46 Mali, 48 Ivory Coast, 54 Burkina Faso, 61 Ghana

Americas (15): 1 Brazil, 3 Argentina, 13 Mexico, 14 Uruguay, 16 USA, 17 Colombia, 23 Peru, 29 Chile, 31 Costa Rica, 41 Canada, 44 Ecuador, 47 Paraguay, 57 Venezuela 60 Panama, 64 Jamaica

OceAsia (6): 20 Iran, 24 Japan, 28 South Korea, 38 Australia, 50 Qatar, 51 Saudi Arabia

Notably out this time: South Africa (67), Bulgaria (72), China (79), New Zealand (105).

Again, the distribution could be debated, depending on how many places you want to leave open for inter-confederation play-offs, but here's how the groups could look like:

1 Brazil - 27 Ukraine - 34 Austria - 50 Qatar
2 Belgium - 17 Colombia - 35 Czech Republic - 51 Saudi Arabia
3 Argentina - 19 Wales - 36 Hungary - 37 Algeria
4 France - 20 Iran - 49 Ireland - 64 Jamaica
5 England - 22 Morocco - 38 Australia - 52 Greece
6 Italy - 23 Peru - 39 Egypt - 53 Romania
7 Spain - 24 Japan - 40 Scotland - 54 Burkina Faso
8 Netherlands - 28 South Korea - 41 Canada - 55 Slovakia
9 Portugal - 18 Senegal - 42 Norway - 57 Venezuela
10 Denmark - 29 Chile - 43 Cameroon - 56 Finland
11 Germany - 30 Tunisia - 44 Ecuador - 58 Bosnia
12 Croatia - 21 Costa Rica - 45 Turkey - 61 Ghana
13 Mexico - 21 Serbia - 46 Mali - 59 Northern Ireland
14 Uruguay - 25 Sweden - 47 Paraguay - 63 Slovenia
15 Switzerland - 32 Nigeria - 33 Russia - 60 Panama
16 USA - 26 Poland - 48 Ivory Coast - 62 Iceland

If anyone has any comments, you can leave them in the section below. If any new talking points come up, I will add them to the post. Thanks for reading.

Saturday 1 October 2016

The 2016-17 EFCL season

This is a list of all the match results compiled in the EFCL league table. They are the last two competitive matches (no friendlies) played between all the teams included in the league. If anyone spots a mistake, let me know in the comments section. I'm also missing some goalscorers from older matches. This entry will be updated whenever new matches are played.

Last updated : 03.06.2017

MANCHESTER UNITED
Man 2 Che 0 2017-04-16 NLe (Marcus Rashford, Ander Herrera)
Che 1 Man 0 2017-03-13 NCu (Ngolo Kanté)
Man 1 Liv 1 2017 01 15 NLe (Zlatan Ibrahimovic; James Milner)
Liv 0 Man 0 2016-10-17 NLe
Ars 2 Man 0 2017-05-07 NLe (Granit Xhaka, Danny Welbeck)
Man 1 Ars 1 2016-11-19 NLe (Juan Mata; Olivier Giroud)
Man 2 Int 0 2009-03-11 C8F (Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo)
Int 0 Man 0 2009-02-24 C8F
Man 4 Mil 0 2010-03-10 C8F (Wayne Rooney 2, Ji-sung Park, Darren Fletcher)
Mil 2 Man 3 2010-02-16 C8F (Ronaldinho, Clarence Seedorf; Paul Scholes, Wayne Rooney 2)
Juv 0 Man 3 2003-02-25 CG2 (Ryan Giggs 2, Ruud Van Nistelrooy)
Man 2 Juv 1 2003-02-19 CG2 (Wes Brown, Ruud Van Nistelrooy; Pavel Nedved)
Man 1 Rom 0 2008-04-09 CQF (Carlos Tévez)
Rom 0 Man 2 2008-04-01 CQF (Cristiano Ronaldo; Wayne Rooney)
Man 1 Rea 2 2013-03-05 C8F (Sergio Ramos og; Luka Modric, Cristiano Ronaldo)
Rea 1 Man 1 2013-02-13 C8F (Cristiano Ronaldo; Danny Welbeck)
Bar 3 Man 1 2011-05-28 CFi (Pedro Rodríguez, Lionel Messi, David Villa; Wayne Rooney)
Bar 2 Man 0 2009-05-21 CFi (Samuel Eto'o, Lionel Messi)
Man 1 Val 1 2010-12-07 CGS (Anderson; Pablo Hernández)
Val 0 Man 1 2010-09-30 CGS (Pablo Hernández)
Bay 3 Man 1 2014-04-10 CQF (Mario Mandzukic, Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben; Patrice Evra)
Man 1 Bay 1 2014-04-01 CQF (Nemanja Vidic; Bastian Schweinsteiger)
Man 0 Bor 1 1997-04-23 CSF (Lars Ricken)
Bor 1 Man 0 1997-04-09 CSF (René Tretschok)
Lev 0 Man 5 2013-11-27 CGS (Luis Antonio Valencia, Emir Spahic og, Jonny Evans, Chris Smalling, Nani)
Man 4 Lev 2 2013-09-17 CGS (Wayne Rooney 2, Robin van Persie, Luis Antonio Valencia; Siomn Rolfes, Ömer Toprak)
Por 0 Man 1 2009-04-15 CQF (Cristiano Ronaldo)
Man 2 Por 2 2009-04-07 CQF (Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tévez; Rodríguez, Lucho González)
Man 2 Ben 2 2011-11-22 CGS (Dimitar Berbatov, Darren Fletcher; Phil Jones og, Pablo Aimar)
Ben 1 Man 1 2011-09-14 CGS (Óscar Cardozo; Ryan Giggs)
Man 1 Lyo 0 2008-03-04 C2R (Cristiano Ronaldo)
Lyo 1 Man 1 2008-02-20 C2R (Karim Benzema; Carlos Tévez)
Man 2 OMa 1 2011-03-15 C8F (Javier Hernández 2; Wes Brown og)
OMa 0 Man 0 2011-02-23 C8F
Man - PSG
PSG - Man
Man 0 PSV 0 2015-11-25 CGS
PSV 2 Man 1 2015-09-15 CGS (Héctor Moreno, Luciano Narsingh; Memphis Depay)
Man 2 Aja 0 2017-05-14 ELF (Paul Pogba, Henrik Mkhitaryan)
Man 1 Aja 2 2012-02-23 E16 (Javier Hernández; Aras Ozbiliz, Toby Alderweireld)
Man 4 Dyn 0 2007-11-07 CGS (Gerard Piqué, Carlos Tévez, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo)
Dyn 2 Man 4 2007-10-23 CGS (Rincón, Bangoura; Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo 2)
Man 3 Oly 0 2014-03-19 C8F (Robin van Persie 3)
Oly 2 Man 0 2014-02-25 C8F (Alejandro Domínguez, Joel Campbell)
Pan 0 Man 1 2003-11-26 CGS (Diego Forlán)
Man 5 Pan 0 2003-09-16 CGS (Mickaël Silvestre, Quinton Fortune, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Nicky Butt, Éric Djemba-Djemba)
Gal 1 Man 0 2012-11-20 CGS (Burak Yilmaz)
Man 1 Gal 0 2012-09-19 CGS (Michael Carrick)
Man - Ros -
Man - Ros -
Man 2 And 1 2017-04-20 EQF (Henrik Mkhitaryan, Marcus Rashford; Sofiane Hanni)
And 1 Man 1 2017-04-13 EQF (Leander Dendoncker; Henrik Mkhitaryan)
CHELSEA LONDON
Liv 1 Che 1 2017-01-20 NLe (Georginio Wijnaldum; David Luiz)
Che 1 Liv 2 2016-09-16 NLe (Diego Costa; Dejan Lovren, Jordan Henderson)
Che 3 Ars 1 2017-02-04 NLe (Marcos Alonso, Eden Hazard, Francesc Fàbregas; Olivier Giroud)
Ars 3 Che 0 2016-09-24 NLe (Alexis Sánchez, Theo Walcott, Mesut Özil)
Che 0 Int 1 2010-03-16 C2R (Samuel Eto'o)
Int 2 Che 1 2010-02-24 C2R (Diego Milito, Esteban Cambiasso; Salomon Kalou)
Mil 1 Che 1 2000-10-26 CGS (Dennis Wise; Oliver Bierhoff)
Che 0 Mil 0 2000-09-15 CGS
Juv 3 Che 0 2012-11-20 CGS (Fabio Quagliarella, Arturo Vidal, Sebastian Giovinco)
Che 2 Juv 2 2012-09-19 CGS (Oscar 2; Arturo Vidal, Fabio Quagliarella)
Rom 3 Che 1 2008-11-04 CGS (Christian Panucci, Mirko Vucinic 2; John Terry)
Che 1 Rom 0 2008-10-22 CGS (John Terry)
Che 1 Rea 0 1998-08-28 ESC (Gustavo Poyet)
Che 2 Rea 1 1971-05-21 CWC (Peter Osgood, John Dempsey; Sebastián Fleitas)
Bar 2 Che 2 2012-04-24 CSF (Sergio Busquets, Andrés Iniesta; Ramires, Fernando Torres)
Che 1 Bar 0 2012-04-18 CSF (Didier Drogba)
Che 3 Val 0 2011-12-06 CGS (Didier Drogba 2, Ramires)
Val 1 Che 1 2011-09-28 CGS (Roberto Soldado; Frank Lampard)
Bay 2 Che 2 2013-08-30 ESC (Franck Ribéry, Javi Martínez; Fernando Torres, Eden Hazard)
Che 1 Bay 1 2012-05-19 CFi (Didier Drogba; Thomas Müller)
Che - Bor
Che - Bor
Lev 2 Che 1 2011-11-23 CGS (Eren Derdiyok, Manuel Friedrich; Didier Drogba)
Che 2 Lev 0 2011-09-13 CGS (David Luiz, Juan Mata)
Che 2 Por 0 2015-12-09 CGS (Iván Marcano og, Willian)
Por 2 Che 1 2015-09-29 CGS (André André, Maicon; Willian)
Che 2 Ben 1 2013-05-15 ELF (Fernando Torres, Branislav Ivanovic; Óscar Cardozo)
Che 2 Ben 1 2012-04-04 CQF (Frank Lampard, Raúl Meireles; Javi García)
Che – Lyo
Che – Lyo
OMa 1 Che 0 2010-12-08 CGS (Marlon Brandao)
Che 2 OMa 0 2010-09-28 CGS (John Terry, Nicolas Anelka)
Che 1 PSG 2 2016-03-09 C8F
PSG 2 Che 1 2016-02-16 C8F
Che – PSV
Che – PSV
Che - Aja
Che - Aja
Che 2 Dyn 1 2015-11-04 (Alexander Dragovic og, Willian; Alexander Dragovic)
Dyn 0 Che 0 2015-10-20
Che 3 Oly 0 2008-03-05 C2R (Michael Ballack, Frank Lampard, Salomon Kalou)
Oly 0 Che 0 2008-02-19 C2R
Che - Pan -
Pan - Che -
Che 2 Gal 0 2014-03-18 C8F (Samuel Eto'o, Gary Cahill)
Gal 1 Che 1 2014-02-26 C8F (Aurelien Chedjou; Fernando Torres)
Ros 0 Che 4 2007-11-28 CGS (Didier Drogba 2, Alex, Joe Cole)
Che 1 Ros 1 2007-09-18 CGS (Andriy Shevchenko; Miika Koppinen)
And 0 Che 2 2005-11-24 CGS (Hernán Crespo, Ricardo Carvalho)
Che 1 And 0 2005-09-13 CGS (Frank Lampard)
LIVERPOOL FC
Liv 3 Ars 1 2017-03-04 NLe (Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mané, Georginio Wijnaldum; Danny Welbeck)
Ars 3 Liv 4 2016-08-14 NLe (Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Calum Chambers; Philippe Coutinho 2, Adam Lallana, Sadio Mané)
Int 0 Liv 1 2008-03-11 C2R (Fernando Torres)
Liv 2 Int 0 2008-02-19 C2R (Dirk Kuyt, Steven Gerrard)
Mil 2 Liv 1 2007-05-23 CFi (Filippo Inzaghi 2, Dirk Kuyt)
Liv 3 Mil 3 2005-05-25 CFi (Paolo Maldini, Hernán Crespo 2; Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer, Xabier Alonso)
Juv 0 Liv 0 2005-04-30 CQF
Liv 2 Juv 1 2005-04-05 CQF (Sami Hyypia, Luis García; Fabio Cannavaro)
Liv 2 Rom 0 2002-03-19 C2G (Jari Litmanen, Emile Heskey)
Rom 0 Liv 0 2002-12-05 C2G
Rea 1 Liv 0 2014-11-04 CGS (Karim Benzema)
Liv 0 Rea 3 2014-10-22 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema 2)
Liv 0 Bar 1 2007-03-06 C2R (Eidur Gudjohnsen)
Bar 1 Liv 2 2007-02-21 C2R (Deco; Craig Bellamy, John Arne Riise)
Liv 0 Val 1 2002-10-30 CGS (Francisco Rufete)
Val 2 Liv 0 2002-09-17 CGS (Pablo Aimar, Rubén Baraja)
Liv 3 Bay 2 2001-08-24 ESC (John Arne Riise, Emile Heskey, Michael Owen; Hasan Salihamidzic, Carsten Jancker)
Liv 1 Bay 1 1981-04-22 CSF
Liv 4 Bor 3 2016-04-14 EQF (Divock Origi, Philippe Coutinho, Mamadou Sakho, Dejan Lovren; Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marco Reus)
Bor 1 Liv 1 2016-04-07 EQF (Mats Hummels; Divock Origi)
Lev 1 Liv 3 2005-03-09 C8F (Jacek Krzynówek; Luis García 2, Milan Baros)
Liv 3 Lev 1 2005-02-22 C8F (Luis García, John Arne Riise, Dietmar Hamann; França)
Liv 4 Por 1 2007-11-28 CGS (Fernando Torres 2, Steven Gerrard, Peter Crouch; Lisandro López)
Por 1 Liv 1 2007-09-18 CGS (Lucho González; Dirk Kuyt)
Liv 4 Ben 1 2010-04-08 ELQ (Dirk Kuijt, Lucas Leiva, Fernando Torres 2; Óscar Cardozo)
Ben 2 Liv 1 2010-04-01 ELQ (Óscar Cardozo 2; Daniel Agger)
Liv 1 Lyo 1 2009-11-04 CGS (Lisandro López; Ryan Babel)
Liv 1 Lyo 2 2009-10-20 CGS (Yossi Benayoun; Maxime Gonalons, César Delgado)
Liv 1 OMa 0 2008-11-26 CGS (Steven Gerrard)
OMa 1 Liv 2 2008-09-16 CGS (Lorik Cana; Steven Gerrard 2)
Liv 2 PSG 0 1997-04-24 RSF
PSG 3 Liv 0 1997-04-10 RSF
PSV 1 Liv 3 2008-12-09 CGS (Danko Lazovic; Ryan Babel, Albert Riera, David Ngog)
Liv 3 PSV 1 2008-10-01 CGS (Dirk Kuyt, Robbie Keane, Steven Gerrard; Danny Koevermans)
Liv 2 Aja 2 1966-12-14 C8F (Roger Hunt 2, Johan Cruyff 2)
Aja 5 Liv 1 1966-12-07 C8F (Cornelis de Wolf, Johan Cruyff, Klaas Nuninga 2, Hendrik Groot; Chris Lawler)
Dyn 1 Liv 2 2001-10-16 CGS (Tiberiu Ghioane; Danny Murphy, Steven Gerrard)
Liv 1 Dyn 0 2001-09-26 CGS (Jari Litmanen)
Liv 3 Oly 1 2004-12-08 CGS (Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Neil Mellor, Steven Gerrard; Rivaldo)
Oly 1 Liv 0 2004-09-28 CGS (Ieroklis Stoltidis)
Pan 0 Liv 1 1985-04-24 CSF (Mark Lawrenson)
Liv 4 Pan 0 1985-04-10 CSF (John Wark, Ian Rush 2, Jim Beglin)
Gal 3 Liv 2 2006-12-05 CGS (Necati Ates, Okan Buruk, Sasa Ilic; Robbie Fowler 2)
Liv 3 Gal 2 2006-09-27 CGS (Peter Crouch 2, Luis García; Ümit Karan 2)
Liv - Ros -
Liv - Ros -
Liv 3 And 0 2005-10-31 CGS (Fernando Morientes, Luis García, Djibril Cissé)
And 0 Liv 1 2005-10-19 CGS (Djibril Cissé)
ARSENAL LONDON
Int 1 Ars 5 2003-11-25 CGS (Christian Vieri; Thierry Henry 2, Freddie Ljungberg, Edu, Robert Pires)
Ars 0 Int 3 2003-09-17 CGS (Julio Cruz, Andy van der Meyde, Obafemi Martins)
Ars 3 Mil 0 2012-03-06 C2R (Laurent Koscielny, Tomas Rosicky, Robin van Persie)
Mil 4 Ars 0 2012-02-15 C2R (Kevin-Prince Boateng, Robinho 2, Zlatan Ibrahimovic)
Juv 0 Ars 0 2006-04-05 CQF
Ars 2 Juv 0 2006-03-28 CQF (Francesc Fàbregas, Thierry Henry)
Rom 1 Ars 0 2009-03-11 CQF (Juan)
Ars 1 Rom 0 2009-02-24 CQF (Robin van Persie)
Ars 0 Rea 0 2006-03-08 C8F
Rea 0 Ars 1 2006-02-21 C8F (Thierry Henry)
Bar 3 Ars 1 2016-03-16 C8F (Neymar, Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi; Mohamed Elneny)
Ars 0 Bar 2 2016-02-23 C8F (Lionel Messi 2)
Val 2 Ars 1 2003-03-19 CG2 (John Carew 2; Thierry Henry)
Ars 0 Val 0 2002-12-10 CG2
Ars 1 Bay 5 2017-03-07 C8F (Theo Walcott; Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben, Douglas Costa, Arturo Vidal 2)
Bay 5 Ars 1 2017-02-15 C8F (Arjen Robben, Robert Lewandowski, Thiago Alcántara 2, Thomas Müller; Alexis Sánchez)
Bor 2 Ars 0 2014-09-16 CGS (Henrik Mkhitaryan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang)
Bor 0 Ars 1 2013-11-06 CGS (Aaron Ramsey)
Ars 4 Lev 1 2002-02-27 C2G (Robert Pires, Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp; Zoltan Sebescen)
Lev 1 Ars 1 2002-02-19 C2G (Ulf Kirsten; Robert Pires)
Ars 5 Por 0 2010-03-09 C2R (Niklas Bendtner 3, Sami Nasri, Emmanuel Eboué)
Por 2 Ars 1 2010-02-17 C2R (Silvestre Varela, Radamel Falçao; Sol Campbell)
Ars 1 Ben 3 1991-11-06 C2R (Pates; Isaías 2, Kulkov)
Ben 1 Ars 1 1991-10-23 C2R (Isaías; Sol Campbell)
Lyo 0 Ars 1 2001-02-14 C2G (Thierry Henry)
Ars 1 Lyo 1 2001-02-22 C2G (Dennis Bergkamp; Edmilson)
Ars 2 Mar 0 2013-11-27 CGS (Jack Wilshere 2)
OMa 1 Ars 2 2013-09-18 CGS (Jordan Ayew; Theo Walcott, Aaron Ramsey)
Ars 2 PSG 2 2016-11-23 CGS (Olivier Giroud, Marco Verrati og; Edinson Cavani, Alex Iwobi og)
PSG 1 Ars 1 2016-09-13 CGS (Edinson Cavani; Alexis Sánchez)
Ars 1 PSV 1 2007-03-07 C2R (Alex og; Alex)
PSV 1 Ars 0 2007-02-20 C2R (Édison Méndez)
Ars 0 Aja 0 2005-12-07 CGS
Aja 1 Ars 2 2005-09-27 CGS (Markus Rosenberg; Freddie Ljungberg, Robert Pirès)
Ars 1 Dyn 0 2008-11-25 CGS (Niklas Bendtner)
Dyn 1 Ars 1 2008-09-17 CGS (Ismael Bangoura; William Gallas)
Oly 0 Ars 3 2015-12-09 CGS (Olivier Giroud 3)
Ars 2 Oly 3 2015-09-29 CGS (Theo Walcott, Alexis Sánchez; Felipe Pardo, David Ospina og, Alfred Finnbogason)
Ars 1 Pan 1 2004-11-02 CGS (Thierry Henry; Pascal Cygan og)
Pan 2 Ars 2 2004-10-19 CGS (Ezequiel González, Emmanuel Olisadebe; Freddie Ljungberg, Thierry Henry)
Gal 1 Ars 4 2014-12-09 CGS (Wesley Sneijder; Lukas Podolski 2, Aaron Ramsey 2)
Ars 4 Gal 1 2014-10-01 CGS (Danny Welbeck 3, Alexis Sánchez; Burak Yilmaz)
Ars 5 Ros 1 2004-12-07 CGS (José Antonio Reyes, Thierry Henry, Francesc Fàbregas, Robert Pires, Robin van Persie; Erik Hoftun)
Ros 1 Ars 1 2004-09-29 CGS (Roar Strand; Freddie Ljungberg)
Ars 3 And 3 2014-11-04 CGS (Mikel Arteta, Alexis Sánchez, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain; Anthony Vanden Borre 2, Aleksandar Mitrovic)
And 1 Ars 2 2014-10-22 CGS (Andy Najar; Kieran Gibbs, Lukas Podolski)
INTERNAZIONALE MILANO
Int 2 Mil 2 2017-04-15 NLe (Antonio Candreva, Mauro Icardi; Leandro Romagnoli, Cristian Zapata)
Mil 2 Int 2 2016-11-20 NLe (Suso 2; Antonio Candreva, Ivan Perisic)
Int 2 Juv 1 2016-09-18 NLe (Mauro Icardi, Ivan Perisic; Stephan Lichtsteiner)
Int 3 Juv 0 2016-03-02 NCu (Marcelo Brozovic 2, Ivan Perisic)
Int 1 Rom 3 2017-02-26 NLe (Mauro Icardi; Radja Nainggolan 2, Diego Perotti)
Rom 2 Int 1 2016-10-02 NLe (Edin Dzeko, Mauro Icardi og; Éver Banega)
Int 3 Rea 1 1998-11-25 CGS (Iván Zamorano, Roberto Baggio 2; Clarence Seedorf)
Rea 2 Int 0 1998-09-16 CGS (Fernando Hierro, Clarence Seedorf)
Bar 1 Int 0 2010-04-28 CSF (Gerard Piqué)
Int 3 Bar 1 2010-04-20 CSF (Wesley Sneijder, Maicon, Diego Milito; Pedro Rodríguez)
Val 0 Int 0 2007-03-06 C8F
Int 2 Val 2 2007-02-21 C8F (Esteban Cambiasso, Maicon; David Villa, David Silva)
Bay 2 Int 3 2011-03-16 C8F (Mario Gómez, Thomas Müller; Samuel Eto'o, Wesley Sneijder, Goran Pandev)
Int 0 Bay 1 2011-02-23 C8F (Mario Gómez)
Int 1 Bor 2 1994-03-17 C4F (Antonio Manicone; Michael Zorc, Lars Ricken)
Bor 1 Int 3 1994-03-01 C4F (Michael Schulz; Wim Jonk 2, Igor Shalimov)
Lev 0 Int 2 2003-03-19 C2G (Obafemi Martins, Emre Belözoglu)
Int 3 Lev 2 2002-12-10 C2G (Luigi di Biagio 2, Hans-Jörg Butt 2; Boris Zivkovic, França)
Int 2 Por 1 2005-11-01 CGS (Julio Cruz 2, Hugo Almeida)
Por 2 Int 0 2005-10-19 CGS (Marco Materazzi og, Benni McCarthy)
Int 4 Ben 3 2004-03-25 U8F (Obafemi Martins 2, Álvaro Recoba, Christian Vieri; Nuno Gomes 2, Tiago Mendes)
Ben 0 Int 0 2004-03-11 U8F
Lyo 3 Int 3 2002-10-22 CGS (Anderson Da Silva 2, Eric Carrière; Claudio Caçapa og, Hernán Crespo 2)
Int 1 Lyo 2 2002-10-02 CGS (Fabio Cannavaro; Sydney Govou, Anderson Da Silva)
Int 2 OMa 1 2012-03-13 C8F (Diego Milito, Giampaolo Pazzini; Marlon Brandao)
OMa 1 Int 0 2012-02-22 CGS (André Ayew)
Int - PSG
PSG - Int
Int 2 PSV 0 2007-10-02 CGS (Zlatan Ibrahimovic 2)
PSV 0 Int 1 2007-12-12 CGS (Julio Cruz)
Int 1 Aja 0 2006-03-14 C8F (Dejan Stankovic)
Aja 2 Int 2 2006-02-22 C8F (Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Mauro Rosales; Dejan Stankovic, Julio Cruz)
Dyn 1 Int 2 2009-11-04 CGS (Andriy Shevchenko; Diego Milito, Wesley Sneijder)
Int 2 Dyn 2 2009-10-20 CGS (Dejan Stankovic, Walter Samuel; Taras Mykhalyk, Lúcio og)
Int - Oly
Int - Oly
Int 0 Pan 1 2008-11-26 CGS (Iker Sarriegi)
Pan 0 Int 2 2008-09-16 CGS (Mancini, Adriano)
Int - Gal
Int - Gal
Int 3 Ros 0 2002-10-30 CGS (Álvaro Recoba, Janne Saarinen og, Hernán Crespo)
Ros 2 Int 2 2002-09-17 CGS (Azar Karadas, Hernán Crespo)
Int 3 And 0 2004-12-07 CGS (Julio Cruz, Obafemi Martins 2)
And 1 Int 3 2004-09-29 CGS (Walter Baseggio; Obafemi Martins, Adriano, Dejan Stankovic)
AC MILAN
Juv 2 Mil 1 2017-03-10 NLe (Mehdi Benatia, Paulo Dybala; Carlos Bacca)
Juv 2 Mil 1 2017-01-25 NCu (Paulo Dybala, Miralem Pjanic; Carlos Bacca)
Mil 1 Rom 4 2017-05-07 NLe (Mario Pasalic; Edin Dzeko 2, Stephan El Shaarawy, Daniele de Rossi)
Rom 1 Mil 0 2016-12-12 NLe (Radja Nainggolan)
Mil 2 Rea 2 2010-11-03 GCS (Filippo Inzaghi 2; Gonzalo Higuaín, Pedro León)
Rea 2 Mil 0 2010-10-19 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo, Mesut Özil)
Bar 3 Mil 1 2013-11-06 CGS (Lionel Messi 2, Sergio Busquets; Gerard Piqué og)
Mil 1 Bar 1 2013-10-22 CGS (Robinho; Lionel Messi)
Mil - Val
Mil – Val
Bay 0 Mil 2 2007-04-11 CQF (Clarence Seedorf, Filippo Inzaghi)
Mil 2 Bay 2 2007-04-03 CQF (Andrea Pirlo, Kaká; Daniel van Buyten 2)
Mil 0 Bor 1 2003-03-18 C2G (Jan Koller)
Bor 0 Mil 1 2002-12-11 C2G (Filippo Inzaghi)
Mil - Lev
Mil - Lev
Mil 1 Por 0 2003-08-29 ESC (Andriy Shevchenko)
Por 1 Mil 1 1997-11-20 CGS (Edmílson, Edgar Davids)
Ben 1 Mil 1 2007-11-28 CGS (Maxi Pereira; Andrea Pirlo)
Mil 2 Ben 1 2007-09-18 CGS (Andrea Pirlo, Filippo Inzaghi; Nuno Gomes)
Lyo 0 Mil 0 2006-03-29 CQF
Mil 3 Lyo 1 2006-04-04 CQF (Filippo Inzaghi 2, Andriy Shevchenko; Mahamadou Diarra)
Mil 1 OMa 1 2009-11-25 CGS (Marco Borriello; Lucho González)
OMa 1 Mil 2 2009-09-15 CGS (Gabriel Heinze; Filippo Inzaghi 2)
PSG 1 Mil 1 2001-02-20 C2G
Mil 1 PSG 1 2001-02-14 C2G
Mil 3 PSV 0 2013-08-28 CPR (Kevin-Prince Boateng 2, Mario Balotelli)
PSV 1 Mil 1 2013-08-21 CPR (Tim Matavz; Stephan El Shaarawy)
Mil 0 Aja 0 2013-12-11 CGS
Aja 1 Mil 1 2013-10-01 CGS (Stefano Denswil; Mario Balotelli)
Mil – Dyn
Mil – Dyn
Mil 3 Oly 1 1959-09-23 CR1
Oly 2 Mil 2 1959-09-13 CR1
Mil - Pan
Mil - Pan
Gal 2 Mil 0 2001-03-07 C2G (Gheorghe Hagi, Mário Jardel)
Mil 2 Gal 2 2000-11-21 C2G (José Mari Romero, Andriy Shevchenko; Mário Jardel, Hasan Sas)
Mil 1 Ros 2 1996-12-04 CGS (Christophe Dugarry; Harald Brattbakk, Vegard Heggem)
Ros 1 Mil 4 1996-09-25 CGS (Trond Egil Soltvedt; Marco Simone 3, George Weah)
And 1 Mil 3 2012-11-21 CGS (Tom de Sutter; Stephan El Shaarawy, Philippe Mexès, Alexandre Pato)
Mil 0 And 0 2012-09-18 CGS
JUVENTUS TORINO
Rom 3 Juv 1 2017-05-14 NLe (Daniele de Rossi, Stephan El Shaarawy, Radja Nainggolan; Mario Lemina)
Juv 1 Rom 0 2016-01-24 NLe (Paulo Dybala)
Rea 4 Juv 1 2017-06-03 CLF (Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Casemiro, Marco Asensio; Mario Mandzukic)
Rea 1 Juv 1 2015-05-13 CSF (Cristiano Ronaldo; Álvaro Morata)
Bar 0 Juv 0 2017-04-19 CQF
Juv 3 Bar 0 2017-04-11 CQF (Paulo Dybala 2, Giorgio Chiellini)
Bar 3 Juv 1 2015-06-06 CLF (Ivan Rakitic, Luis Suárez, Neymar da Silva)
Juv - Val
Juv - Val
Bay 4 Juv 2 2016-03-14 C8F (Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Thiago Alcántara, Kingsley Coman; Paul Pogba, Juan Cuadrado)
Juv 2 Bay 2 2016-02-23 C8F (Paulo Dybala, Stefano Sturaro; Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben)
Bor 0 Juv 3 2015-03-18 C2R (Carlos Tévez 2, Álvaro Morata)
Juv 2 Bor 1 2015-02-24 C2R (Carlos Tévez, Álvaro Morata; Marco Reus)
Lev 3 Juv 1 2002-03-12 C2G (Thomas Brdaric 2, Marko Babic 1; Igor Tudor)
Juv 4 Lev 0 2001-11-29 C2G (David Trezeguet 2, Alessandro del Piero, Igor Tudor)
Juv 1 Por 0 2017-03-14 C8F (Paulo Dybala)
Por 0 Juv 2 2017-02-22 C8F (Marco Pjaca, Daniel Alves)
Juv 0 Ben 0 2014-05-01 ESF
Ben 2 Juv 1 2014-04-24 ESF (Ezequiel Garay, Rodrigo Lima; Carlos Tévez)
Juv 1 Lyo 0 2016-11-02 CGS (Gonzalo Higuaín; Corentin Tolisso)
Lyo 0 Juv 1 2016-10-18 CGS (Juan Cuadrado)
Juv 3 OMa 0 1972-09-27 CR1
OMa 1 Juv 0 1972-09-13 CR1
PSG 0 Juv 1 1993 04 22 USF
Juv 2 PSG 1 1993 04 06 USF
Juv - PSV
Juv - PSV
Juv 0 Aja 0 2010-02-25 E16
Aja 1 Juv 2 2010-02-18 E16 (Hasan Sulejmani; Amauri 2)
Dyn 1 Juv 2 2002-11-13 CGS (Maksim Shatskikh; Marcelo Salas, Marcelo Zalayeta)
Juv 5 Dyn 0 2002-09-24 CGS (Marco di Vaio 2, Alessandro del Piero, Edgar Davids, Pavel Nedved)
Juv 3 Oly 2 2014-11-04 CGS (Andrea Pirlo, Roberto og, Paul Pogba; Alberto Botía, Delvin Ndinga)
Oly 1 Juv 0 2014-10-22 CGS (Pajtim Kasami)
Pan 3 Juv 1 2000-11-08 CGS (Paulo Sousa, Angelos Basinas, Krzysztóf Warzycha; Filippo Inzaghi)
Juv 2 Pan 1 2000-09-19 CGS (Alessio Tacchinardi, David Trezeguet; Nikos Goumas)
Gal 1 Juv 0 2013-12-11 CGS (Wesley Sneijder)
Juv 2 Gal 2 2013-10-02 CGS (Arturo Vidal, Fabio Quagliarella; Didier Drogba, Umut Bulut)
Juv 1 Ros 0 2001-10-17 CGS (David Trezeguet)
Ros 1 Juv 1 2001-09-25 CGS (Alessandro del Piero; Bent Skammelsrud)
And 1 Juv 1 1981-11-04 C8F
Juv 3 And 1 1981-10-21 C8F
AS ROMA
Rea 2 Rom 0 2016-03-08 C8F (Cristiano Ronaldo, James Rodríguez)
Rom 0 Rea 2 2016-02-17 C8F (Cristiano Ronaldo, Jesé Rodríguez)
Bar 6 Rom 1 2015-11-24 CGS (Luis Suárez 2, Lionel Messi 2, Gerard Piqué, Adriano Correia, Edin Dzeko)
Rom 1 Bar 1 2015-09-16 CGS (Alessandro Florenzi; Luis Suárez)
Rom 1 Val 0 2006-12-05 CGS (Christian Panucci)
Val 2 Rom 1 2006-09-27 CGS (Miguel Ángel Angulo, David Villa; Francesco Totti)
Bay 2 Rom 0 2014-11-05 CGS (Franck Ribéry, Mario Götze)
Rom 1 Bay 7 2014-10-21 CGS (Gervinho, Arjen Robben 2, Mario Götze, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Franck Ribéry, Xherdan Shaqiri)
Bor 2 Rom 0 1993-03-18 UQF (Michael Schulz, Lothar Sippel)
Rom 1 Bor 0 1993-03-01 UQF (Sinisa Mihajlovic)
Rom 3 Lev 2 2015-11-04 CGS (Mohamed Salah, Edin Dzeko, Miralem Pjanic; Admir Mehmedi, Javier Hernández)
Lev 4 Rom 4 2015-10-20 CGS (Javier Hernández 2, Kevin Kampl, Admir Mehmedi; Daniele De Rossi 2, Miralem Pjanic, Iago Falqué)
Rom 0 Por 3 2016-08-23 CQR (Felipe, Miguel Layún, Jesús Corona)
Por 1 Rom 1 2016-08-17 CQR (André Silva; Felipe og)
Ben 0 Rom 1 1990-10-03 U32
Rom 1 Ben 0 1990-09-19 U32
Rom 2 Lyo 1 2017-03-16 E8F (Kevin Strootman, Lucas Tousart og; Mouctar Diakhaby)
Lyo 4 Rom 2 2017-03-09 E8F (Mouctar Diakhaby, Corentin Tolisso, Nabil Fekir, Alexandre Lacazette; Mohamed Salah, Federico Fazio)
Rom 0 Lyo 0 2007-02-21 C2R
Rom - OMa -
Rom - OMa -
Rom - PSG
PSG - Rom
PSV 1 Rom 0 1969-11-26 W8F
Rom 1 PSV 0 1969-11-12 W8F
Rom 1 Aja 1 2003-03-19 C2G (Antonio Cassano; Andy van der Meyde)
Aja 2 Rom 1 2002-12-10 C2G (Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Jari Litmanen; Gabriel Batistuta)
Dyn 1 Rom 4 2007-11-27 CGS (Ismael Bangoura; Christian Panucci, Ludovic Giuly, Mirko Vucinic 2)
Rom 2 Dyn 0 2007-09-19 CGS (Marco Perrotta, Francesco Totti)
Rom 1 Oly 1 2006-10-31 CGS (Francesco Totti; Júlio César)
Oly 0 Rom 1 2006-10-18 CGS (Marco Perrotta)
Rom 2 Pan 3 2010-02-25 E16 (John Arne Riise, Daniele de Rossi; Djibril Cissé 2, Sotiris Ninis)
Pan 3 Rom 2 2010-02-18 E16 (Dimitrios Salpingidis, Lazaros Christodopoulos, Djibril Cissé; Mirko Vucinic, David Pizarro)
Rom 1 Gal 1 2002-03-13 C2G (Cafú; Ümit Karan)
Gal 1 Rom 1 2001-11-20 C2G (Sébastien Pérez; Émerson)
Rom - Ros -
Rom - Ros -
Rom 1 And 1 2001-10-30 CGS (Marco Delvecchio; Ivica Mornar)
And 0 Rom 0 2001-09-19 CGS
REAL MADRID
Rea 2 Bar 3 2017-04-23 NLe (Casemiro, James Rodríguez; Lionel Messi 2, Ivan Rakitic)
Bar 1 Rea 1 2016-12-03 NLe (Luis Suárez; Sergio Ramos)
Rea 2 Val 1 2017-04-29 NLe (Cristiano Ronaldo, Marcelo; Daniel Parejo)
Val 2 Rea 1 2017-02-22 NLe (Simone Zaza, Fabián Orellana; Cristiano Ronaldo)
Rea 4 Bay 2 2017-04-18 CQF (Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Marco Asensio; Robert Lewandowski, Sergio Ramos og)
Bay 1 Rea 2 2017-04-12 CQF (Arturo Vidal; Cristiano Ronaldo 2)
Rea 2 Bor 2 2016-12-07 CGS (Karim Benzema 2; Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Marco Reus)
Bor 2 Rea 2 2016-09-27 CGS (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, André Schürrle; Cristiano Ronaldo, Raphael Varane)
Rea 1 Lev 1 2004-11-23 CGS (Raúl González; Dimitar Berbatov)
Lev 3 Rea 0 2004-09-15 CGS (Jacek Krzynówek, França, Dimitar Berbatov)
Rea 1 Por 1 2003-12-09 CGS (Santiago Solari; Derlei)
Por 1 Rea 3 2003-10-01 CGS (Costinha; Iván Helguera, Santiago Solari, Zinédine Zidane)
Rea 2 Ben 1 1965-03-17 CQF
Ben 5 Rea 1 1965-02-24 CQF
Lyo 0 Rea 2 2011-11-02 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo 2)
Rea 4 Lyo 0 2011-10-19 CGS (Karim Benzema 2, Kaká, Sergio Ramos)
OMa 1 Rea 3 2009-12-08 CGS (Lucho González; Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Raúl Albiol)
Rea 3 OMa 0 2009-09-30 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo 2, Kaká)
Rea 1 PSG 0 2015-11-03 CGS
PSG 0 Rea 0 2015-10-21 CGS
Rea 2 PSV 1 1989-03-15 CQF (Hugo Sánchez, Rafael Martín Vázquez; Romário de Souza)
PSV 1 Rea 1 1989-03-01 CQF (Romário de Souza; Emilio Butragueño)
Rea 4 Aja 1 2012-12-04 CGS (Cristiano Ronaldo, José María Callejón 2, Kaká; Derek Boerrigter)
Aja 1 Rea 4 2012-10-03 CGS (Niklas Moisander; Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Karim Benzema)
Dyn 2 Rea 2 2006-12-06 CGS (Maksim Shatskikh 2; Ronaldo Lima 2)
Rea 5 Dyn 1 2006-09-26 CGS (Ruud Van Nistelrooy 2, Raúl González 2, José Antonio Reyes; Artem Milevsky)
Oly 0 Rea 0 2007-11-06 CGS
Rea 4 Oly 2 2007-10-24 CGS (Raúl González, Robinho 2, Javier Balboa; Hugo Galletti, Julio César Santos)
Pan 2 Rea 2 2002-03-20 C2G (Nikos Liberopoulos, Nikos Goumas; Fernando Morientes, Javier Portillo)
Rea 3 Pan 0 2001-12-04 C2G (Iván Helguera, Raúl González 2)
Rea 4 Gal 1 2013-11-27 CGS (Gareth Bale, Álvaro Arbeloa, David Di María, Isco; Umut Bulut)
Gal 1 Rea 6 2013-09-17 CGS (Umut Bulut; Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo 3, Karim Benzema 2)
Ros 0 Rea 2 2005-11-01 CGS (Mikael Dorsin og, Guti)
Rea 4 Ros 1 2005-10-19 CGS (Jonathan Woodgate, Raúl González, Iván Helguera, David Beckham; Roar Strand)
And 0 Rea 2 2001-10-16 CGS (Roberto Carlos, Steve McManaman)
Rea 4 And 1 2001-09-26 CGS (Albert Celades, Raúl González 2, Santiago Solari; Arouna Dindane)
FC BARCELONA
Bar 4 Val 2 2017-03-19 NLe (Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi 2, André Gomes; Eliaquim Mangala, Munir El Haddadi)
Val 2 Bar 3 2016-10-22 NLe (Munir El Hadaui, Rodrigo; Lionel Messi 2, Luis Suárez)
Bar 1 Val 2 2016-04-17 NLe (Lionel Messi; Ivan Rakitic og, Santiago Mina)
Bay 3 Bar 2 2015-05-12 CSF (Mehdi Benatia, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller; Neymar 2)
Bar 3 Bay 0 2015-05-06 CSF (Lionel Messi 2, Neymar)
Bor 1 Bar 1 1998-03-11 ESC (Jörg Heinrich; Giovanni da Silva)
Bar 2 Bor 0 1998-01-08 ESC (Luis Enrique Martínez, Rivaldo)
Lev 1 Bar 1 2015-12-09 CGS (Javier Hernández; Lionel Messi)
Bar 2 Lev 1 2015-09-29 CGS (Sergi Roberto, Luis Suárez, Kyriakos Papadopoulos)
Bar 2 Por 0 2011-08-26 ESC (Lionel Messi, Francesc Fàbregas)
Por 0 Bar 2 2000-03-07 CG2 (Abelardo Fernández, Rivaldo)
Bar 0 Ben 0 2012-12-05 CGS
Ben 0 Bar 2 2012-10-02 CGS (Alexis Sánchez, Francesc Fàbregas)
Bar 5 Lyo 2 2009-03-11 C2R (Thierry Henry 2, Lionel Messi, Samuel Eto'o, Seydou Keita; Jean Makoun, Juninho)
Lyo 1 Bar 1 2009-02-24 C2R (Juninho; Thierry Henry)
Bar - OMa -
Bar - OMa -
Bar 6 PSG 1 2017-03-08 C8F (Luis Suárez, Layvin Kurzawa og, Lionel Messi, Neymar 2 Sergi Roberto; Edinson Cavani)
PSG 4 Bar 0 2017-02-14 C8F (Ángel Di María 2, Julian Draxler, Edinson Cavani)
PSV 2 Bar 2 1997-12-10 CGS (Abelardo Fernández og, Gilles de Bilde; Abelardo Fernández, Giovanni)
Bar 2 PSV 2 1997-10-01 CGS (Luis Enrique Martínez 2, Philip Cocu, Peter Möller)
Aja 0 Bar 2 2014-11-05 CGS (Lionel Messi 2)
Bar 3 Aja 1 2014-10-21 CGS (Neymar, Lionel Messi, Sandro Ramírez; Anwar El-Ghazi)
Dyn 1 Bar 2 2009-12-09 CGS (Artem Milevskiy; Xavi Hernández, Lionel Messi)
Bar 2 Dyn 0 2009-09-29 CGS (Lionel Messi, Pedro Rodríguez)
Bar - Oly
Bar - Oly
Pan 0 Bar 3 2010-11-24 CGS (Pedro Rodríguez 2, Lionel Messi)
Bar 5 Pan 1 2010-09-14 CGS (Lionel Messi, David Villa, Pedro Rodríguez, Daniel Alves; Sydney Govou)
Bar 3 Gal 1 2002-11-13 CGS (Dani García, Gerard López, Geovanni; Cihan Haspolati)
Gal 0 Bar 2 2002-09-24 CGS (Patrick Kluivert; Luis Enrique Martínez)
Bar - Ros -
Bar - Ros -
Bar 2 And 1 1989-11-01 W8F (Julio Salinas, Aitor Begiristain; Marc van der Linden)
And 2 Bar 0 1989-10-18 W8F (Milan Jankovic, Marc Degryse)
VALENCIA CF
Val 1 Bay 1 2012-11-20 CGS (Sofiane Feghouli; Thomas Müller)
Bay 2 Val 1 2012-09-19 CGS (Bastian Schweinsteiger, Toni Kroos; Nelson Haedo Valdez)
Val - Bor
Val - Bor
Val 3 Lev 1 2011-11-01 CGS (Jonas, Roberto Soldado, Adil Rami; Stefan Kiessling)
Lev 2 Val 1 2011-10-19 CGS (André Schürrle, Sydney Sam; Jonas)
Val 2 Por 1 2004-08-27 ESC (Rubén Baraja, Marco di Vaio; Ricardo Quaresma)
Val 3 Por 2 1989-11-01 U2R
Val - Ben
Val - Ben
Val 0 Lyo 2 2015-12-09 CGS (Maxwel Cornet, Alexandre Lacazette)
Lyo 0 Val 1 2015-09-29 CGS (Sofiane Feghouli)
Val 2 OMa 0 2004-05-19 UCF (Vicente Rodríguez, Miguel Ferrer Mista)
Val - OMa -
PSG 1 Val 1 2013 03 06 C8F
Val 1 PSG 2 2013 02 12 C8F
PSV 1 Val 1 2012-03-15 C8F (Ola Toivonen; Sofiane Feghouli)
Val 4 PSV 2 2012-03-08 C8F (Víctor Ruiz, Roberto Soldado 2, Pablo Piatti; Ola Toivonen, Eric Wijnaldum)
Aja 1 Val 1 2003-03-11 C2G (Petri Pasanen; Kily González)
Val 1 Aja 1 2002-11-27 C2G (Miguel Ángel Angulo; Zlatan Ibrahimovic)
Val 0 Dyn 0 2014-02-27 U16
Dyn 0 Val 2 2014-02-20 U16 (Eduardo Vargas, Domagoj Vida og)
Val 2 Oly 0 2006-11-22 CGS (Miguel Ángel Angulo, Fernando Morientes)
Oly 2 Val 4 2006-09-12 CGS (Michalis Konstantinou, Ezequiel Castillo; Fernando Morientes 3, Raúl Albiol)
Val 2 Pan 1 2001-03-13 C2G Juan Sánchez, Jocelyn Angloma; Angelos Basinas)
Pan 0 Val 0 2000-12-06 C2G
Val - Gal
Val - Gal
Ros 0 Val 4 2008-11-06 UGS (Juan Mata, Pablo Hernández, Rubén Baraja, Joaquín Sánchez)
Val 0 Ros 2 2007-11-27 CGS (Steffen Iversen)
And 1 Val 2 2004-11-24 CGS (Christian Wilhelmsson; Bernardo Corradi, Marco di Vaio)
Val 2 And 0 2004-09-14 CGS (Vicente Rodríguez, Rubén Baraja)
BAYERN MÜNCHEN
Bay 2 Bor 3 2017-04-26 NCu (Javi Martínez, Mats Hummels; Marco Reus, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Ousmane Dembelé)
Bay 4 Bor 1 2017-04-08 NLe (Franck Ribéry, Robert Lewandowski 2, Arjen Robben; Rafael Guerreiro)
Lev 0 Bay 0 2017-04-15 NLe
Bay 2 Lev 1 2016-11-26 NLe (Thiago Alcántara, Mats Hummels; Hakan Çalhanoglu)
Bay 6 Por 1 2015-04-21 CQF (Thiago Alcántara, Jerome Boateng, Robert Lewandowski 2, Thomas Müller, Xabi Alonso; Jackson Martínez)
Por 3 Bay 1 2015-04-15 CQF (Ricardo Quaresma 2, Jackson Martínez; Thiago Alcántara)
Ben 2 Bay 2 2016-04-13 CQF (Raúl Jiménez, Anderson Talisca; Arturo Vidal, Thomas Müller)
Bay 1 Ben 0 2016-04-05 CQF (Arturo Vidal)
Lyo 0 Bay 3 2010-04-27 CSF (Ivica Olic 3)
Bay 1 Lyo 0 2010-04-21 CSF (Arjen Robben)
Bay 2 OMa 0 2012-04-03 CQF (Ivica Olic 2)
OMa 0 Bay 2 2012-03-28 CQF (Mario Gómez, Arjen Robben)
Bay 2 PSG 0 2000-10-18 CGS
PSG 1 Bay 0 2000-09-26 CGS
PSV 1 Bay 2 2016-11-01 CGS (Santiago Arias; Robert Lewandoski 2)
Bay 4 PSV 1 2016-10-19 CGS (Thomas Müller, Joshua Kimmich, Robert Lewandowski, Arjen Robben; Luciano Narsingh)
Aja 2 Bay 2 2004-12-08 CGS (Tomas Galasek, Nicolae Mitea; Roy Makaay, Michael Ballack)
Bay 4 Aja 0 2004-28-09 CGS (Roy Makaay 3, Zé Roberto)
Dyn 2 Bay 0 2000-03-22 CG2 (Kakhaber Kaladze, Giorgi Demetradze)
Bay 2 Dyn 1 1999-12-07 CG2 (Carsten Jancker, Paulo Sérgio; Serhiy Rebrov)
Bay 4 Oly 0 2015-11-24 CGS (Douglas Costa, Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Müller, Kingsley Coman)
Oly 0 Bay 3 2015-09-16 CGS (Thomas Müller 2, Mario Götze)
Pan 1 Bay 2 1967-10-18 W16
Bay 5 Pan 0 1967-09-20 W16
Bay 6 Gal 0 1972-09-27 C1R
Gal 1 Bay 1 1972-09-13 C1R
Ros 1 Bay 1 2000-11-08 CGS (Ronnie Johnsen; Jens Jeremies)
Bay 3 Ros 1 2000-09-19 CGS (Carsten Jancker, Giovane Elber, Thomas Linke; Jan Derek Sorensen)
Bay 1 And 2 2008-03-12 U8F (Lúcio; Serhat Akin, Oleksandr Yakovenko)
And 0 Bay 5 2008-03-06 U8F (Hamit Altintop, Luca Toni, Lukas Podolski, Miroslav Klose, Franck Ribéry)
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
Bor 6 Lev 2 2017-03-04 NLe (Ousmane Dembelé, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 2, Christian Pulisic, André Schürrle, Rafael Guerreiro; Kevin Volland, Wendell)
Lev 2 Bor 0 2016-10-01 NLe (Admir Mehmedi, Javier Hernández)
Por 0 Bor 1 2016-02-25 E16 (Iker Casillas og)
Bor 2 Por 0 2016-02-18 E16 (Lukasz Piszczek, Marco Reus)
Dor 4 Ben 0 2017-03-08 C8F (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 3, Christian Pulisic)
Ben 1 Dor 0 2017-02-14 C8F (Konstantinos Mitroglou)
Bor - Lyo
Bor - Lyo
OMa 1 Dor 2 2013-12-11 CGS (Souleymane Diawara; Robert Lewandowski, Kevin Grosskreutz)
Bor 3 OMa 0 2013-10-01 CGS (Robert Lewandowski 2, Marco Reus)
PSG 0 Bor 0 2010-11-04 EGS
Bor 1 PSG 1 2010-10-21 EGS
Bor 1 PSV 1 2002-10-22 CGS (Jan Koller; Arnold Bruggink)
PSV 1 Bor 3 2002-10-02 CGS (Remco van der Schaaf; Jan Koller, Tomas Rosicky, Márcio Amoroso)
Aja 1 Bor 4 2012-11-21 CGS (Danny Hoesen; Marco Reus, Mario Götze, Robert Lewandowski 2)
Bor 1 Aja 0 2012-09-18 CGS (Robert Lewandowski)
Bor 1 Dyn 0 2001-10-24 CGS (Tomas Rosicky)
Dyn 2 Bor 2 2001-09-11 CGS (Olexandr Melashchenko, Lucky Isi Idahor; Jan Koller, Márcio Amoroso)
Bor 1 Oly 0 2011-11-01 CGS (Kevin Grosskreutz)
Oly 3 Bor 1 2011-10-19 CGS (José Holebas, Rafik Djebbour, François Modesto; Robert Lewandowski)
Bor - Pan
Bor - Pan
Bor 4 Gal 1 2014-11-04 CGS ((Marco Reus, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Ciro Immobile, Semih Kaya og; Hakan Balta)
Gal 0 Bor 4 2014-10-22 CGS (Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 2, Marco Reus, Adrián Ramos)
Bor 0 Ros 3 1999-10-19 CGS (Jan-Derek Sorensen 2, Fredrik Winsnes)
Ros 2 Bor 2 1999-09-29 CGS (Jan-Derek Sorensen; John Carew; Sergej Barbarez, Jürgen Kohler)
Bor 1 And 1 2014-12-09 CGS (Ciro Immobile; Aleksandar Mitrovic)
And 0 Bor 3 2014-10-01 CGS (Ciro Immobile, Adrián Ramos 2)
BAYER LEVERKUSEN
Lev - Por
Lev - Por
Ben 0 Lev 0 2014-12-09 CGS
Lev 3 Ben 1 2014-10-01 CGS (Stefan Kiessling, Heung-Min Son, Hakan Calhanoglu; Salvio)
Lev 2 Lyo 4 2001-10-31 CGS (Zoltan Sebescen, Dimitar Berbatov; Eric Carrière 2, Frédéric Née, Sydney Govou)
Lyo 0 Lev 1 2001-09-18 CGS (Ulf Kirsten)
Lev - OMa
Lev - OMa
PSG 2 Lev 1 2014-03-12 CQF
Lev 0 PSG 4 2014-02-14 CQF
PSV 0 Lev 0 1994-09-27 U32
Lev 5 PSV 4 1994-09-13 U32 (Ulf Kirsten 3, Thomas Dooley, Bernd Schuster; Ronaldo da Lima 3, Luc Nilis)
Lev - Aja
Lev - Aja
Lev 3 Dyn 0 2004-12-08 CGS (Juan, Andriy Voronin, Marko Babic)
Dyn 4 Lev 2 2004-09-28 CGS (Diogo Rincón 2, Florin Cernat; Andriy Voronin, Jens Nowotny)
Lev 2 Oly 0 2002-10-29 CGS (Juan, Bernd Schneider)
Oly 6 Lev 2 2002-09-18 CGS (Thomas Kleine og, Stelios Giannakopoulos, Predrag Djordjevic 3, Pär Zetterberg; Bernd Schneider 2)
Lev 1 Pan 2 1993-11-02 W8F (Ulf Kirsten; Dimitris Saravakos, Georgios Georgiadis)
Pan 1 Lev 4 1993-10-20 W8F (Krzysztóf Warzycha; Paulo Sérgio, Andreas Thom, Ulf Kirsten, Pavel Hapal)
Lev 5 Gal 1 2008-02-21 U16 (Sergej Barbarez 2, Stefan Kiessling, Karim Haggui, Bernd Schneider; Ahmed Apimah Barusso)
Gal 0 Lev 0 2008-02-13 U16
Lev 1 Ros 0 2012-12-06 EGS (Julian Riedel)
Ros 0 Lev 1 2012-10-04 EGS (Stefan Kiessling)
Lev - And
Lev - And
FC PORTO
Por 1 Ben 1 2016-11-06 NLe (Diogo Jota; Lisandro López)
Ben 1 Por 2 2016-02-12 NLe (Konstantinos Mitroglou; H Herrera, Vincent Aboubakar)
Lyo 2 Por 2 2004-04-07 CQF (Pegguy Luyindula, Giovane Elber; Maniche 2)
Por 2 Lyo 0 2004-03-23 CQF (Deco, Ricardo Carvalho)
Por 2 OMa 1 2007-11-06 GGS (Tarik Sektioui, Lisandro López; Mahamadou Niang)
OMa 1 Por 1 2007-10-24 CGS (Mahamadou Niang; Lucho González)
PSG 2 Por 1 2012 12 04 CGS
Por 1 PSG 0 2012-10-03 CGS
PSV 0 Por 1 1993-04-07 CGS (José Carlos)
Por 2 PSV 2 1992-11-25 CGS (Jaime Magalhaes, José Carlos; Romário de Souza)
Por 3 Aja 0 1998-12-09 CGS (Zlatko Zahovic 2, Ljubinko Drulovic)
Aja 2 Por 1 1998-09-20 CGS (Andrzej Rudy, Jari Litmanen; Zlatko Zahovic)
Dyn 2 Por 2 2015-09-16 CGS (Oleh Husyev, Vitaliy Buyalskiy; Vincent Aboubakar 2)
Por 0 Dyn 2 2015-11-24 CGS (Andrei Yarmolenko, Derlís González)
Oly 1 Por 0 1999-11-03 CGS (Stelios Giannakopoulos)
Por 2 Oly 0 1999-09-21 CGS (Esquerdinha, Mário Jardel)
Pan 0 Por 2 2003-03-20 UCQ (Derlei 2)
Por 0 Pan 1 2003-03-13 UCQ (Emmanuel Olisadebe)
Por - Gal -
Por - Gal -
Por 1 Ros 0 2001-10-31 CGS (Renivaldo Pena)
Ros 1 Por 2 2001-09-18 CGS (Sigurd Rushfeldt; Renivaldo Pena, Deco)
And 0 Por 0 2000-08-23 CGS
And 1 Por 0 2000-08-09 CGS (Jan Koller)
BENFICA LISBOA
Ben 4 Lyo 3 2010-11-02 GCS (Alan Kardec, Fábio Coentrao 2, Javi García; Yohan Gourcuff, Bafétimbi Gomis, Dejan Lovren)
Lyo 2 Ben 0 2010-10-20 CGS (Jimmy Briand, Lisandro López)
OMa 1 Ben 2 2010-03-18 E8F (Mahamadou Niang; Maxi Pereira, Alan Kardec)
Ben 1 OMa 1 2010-03-11 E8F (Maxi Pereira; Hatem Ben Arfa)
Ben 2 PSG 1 2013-12-10 CGS
PSG 3 Ben 0 2013-10-02 CGS
PSV 2 Ben 2 2011-04-14 EQF (Balasz Dzsudzsak, Jermain Lens; Luisao, Óscar Cardozo)
Ben 4 PSV 1 2011-04-07 EQF (Pablo Aimar, Eduardo Salvio 2, Javier Saviola; Zakaria Labyad)
Ben 0 Aja 0 1972-04-19 CSF
Aja 1 Ben 0 1972-04-05 CSF (Sjaak Swart)
Ben 1 Dyn 0 2016-11-01 CGS (Eduardo Salvio)
Dyn 0 Ben 2 2016-10-19 CGS (Eduardo Salvio, Franco Cervi)
Oly 1 Ben 0 2013-11-05 CGS (Konstantinos Manolas)
Ben 1 Oly 1 2013-10-23 CGS (Óscar Cardozo; Alejandro Domínguez)
Ben - Pan
Ben - Pan
Ben 2 Gal 1 2015-11-04 CGS (Jonas, Luisao; Lukas Podolski)
Gal 2 Ben 1 2015-10-21 CGS (Selcuk Inan, Lukas Podolski; Nicolás Gaitán)
Ros 2 Ben 1 2004-03-03 U16 (Orjan Berg, Azar Karadas; Nuno Gomes)
Ben 1 Ros 0 2004-02-26 U16 (Zlatko Zahovic)
And 2 Ben 3 2013-11-27 CGS (Chancel Mbemba Mangulu, Massimo Bruno; Nemanja Matic, Chancel Mbemba Mangulu og, Rodrigo)
Ben 2 And 0 2013-09-17 CGS (Filip Djuricic, Luisao)
OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS
Mar 2 Lyo 1 2017-01-31 NCu (Rod Fanni, Matheus Doria; Corentin Tolisso)
Lyo 3 Mar 1 2017-01-22 NLe (Mathieu Valbuena, Alexandre Lacazette 2; Matheus Doria)
PSG 2 Lyo 1 2017-03-19 NLe (Adrien Rabiot, Julian Draxler; Alexandre Lacazette)
Lyo 1 PSG 2 2016-11-27 NLe (Mathieu Valbuena; Edinson Cavani 2)
Lyo 4 PSV 0 2006-03-28 C8F (Tiago 2, Sylvain Wiltord, Fred)
PSV 0 Lyo 1 2006-02-21 C2R (Juninho)
Lyo 3 Aja 1 2017-05-11 ESF (Alexandre Lacazette 2, Rachid Ghezzal; Kasper Dolberg)
Aja 4 Lyo 1 2017-05-03 ESF (Bertrand Traoré 2, Kasper Dolberg, Amin Younes; Mathieu Valbuena)
Lyo 1 Dyn 0 2006-11-01 CGS (Karim Benzema)
Dyn 0 Lyo 3 2006-10-17 CGS (Juninho, Kim Källström, Florent Malouda)
Oly 1 Lyo 4 2005-11-01 CGS (Tijani Babangida; Juninho, John Carew 2, Mahamadou Diarra)
Lyo 2 Oly 1 2005-10-19 CGS (Juninho, Sydney Govou; Pantelis Kafes)
Lyo - Pan -
Lyo - Pan -
Lyo - Gal -
Lyo - Gal -
Lyo 2 Ros 1 2005-12-06 CGS (Karim Benzema, Fred; Daniel Braaten)
Ros 0 Lyo 1 2005-09-28 CGS (Cris)
And 1 Lyo 3 2009-08-25 CLQ (Matías Suárez; Lisandro López 3)
Lyo 5 And 1 2009-08-19 CLQ (Miralem Pjanic, Lisandro López, Michel Bastos, Bafétimbi Gomis 2; matías Suárez)
OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE
OMa 1 PSG 5 2017-02-26 NLe (Rod Fanni; Marquinhos, Edinson Cavani, Lucas Moura, Julian Draxler, Blaise Matuidi)
PSG 0 OMa 0
OMa 3 PSV 0 2008-11-04 CGS (Arouna Koné, Mahamadou Niang 2)
PSV 2 OMa 0 2008-10-22 CGS (Danny Koevermans 2)
Aja 2 OMa 2 2009-03-18 U8F (Eyong Enoh, Hasan Sulejmani; Mahamadou Niang, Tyrone Mears)
OMa 2 Aja 1 2009-03-12 U8F (Bruno Cheyrou, Mahamadou Niang; Luis Suárez)
OMa - Dyn
OMa - Dyn
OMa 0 Oly 1 2011-11-23 CGS (Giannis Fetfatzidis)
Oly 0 OMa 1 2011-09-13 CGS (Lucho González)
OMa - Pan -
OMa - Pan -
OMa - Gal -
OMa - Gal -
OMa - Ros -
OMa - Ros -
OMa - And -
OMa - And -
PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN
PSG - PSV
PSV - PSG
PSG 3 Aja 1 2014-11-25 CGS
Aja 1 PSG 1 2014-09-17 CGS
Dyn 0 PSG 2 2012-11-21 CGS
PSG 4 Dyn 1 2012-09-18 CGS
PSG 2 Oly 1 2013 11 27 CGS
Oly 1 PSG 4 2013 09 17 CGS
PSG 4 Pan 0 2006 12 14 EGS
Pan - PSG
PSG 2 Gal 0 2001-03-13 C2G
Gal 1 PSG 0 2000-12-06 C2G
PSG 7 Ros 2 2000-10-24 CGS
Ros 3 PSG 1 2000-09-12 CGS
PSG 1 And 1 2013 11 05 CGS
And 0 PSG 5 2013 10 23 CGS
PSV EINDHOVEN
Aja 1 PSV 1 2016-12-18 NLe (Davy Klaasen, Siem de Jong)
PSV 0 Aja 2 2016-03-20 NLe (Arkadiusz Milik, Anwar El-Ghazi)
Dyn 0 PSV 1 2000-10-24 CGS (André Ooijer)
PSV 2 Dyn 1 2000-09-13 CGS (Theo Lucius, Arnold Bruggink; Maxim Shatskikh)
PSV – Oly
PSV – Oly
Pan 2 PSV 3 2014-11-06 EGS (Abdul Ajagun, Mladen Petric; Memphis Depay, Luuk de Jong, Georginio Wijnaldum)
PSV 1 Pan 1 2014-10-23 EGS (Memphis Depay; Nikos Karelis)
PSV 2 Gal 0 2006-10-31 CGS (Timmy Simons, Arouna Koné)
Gal 1 PSV 2 2006-10-18 CGS (Sasa Ilic; Jan Kromkamp, Arouna Koné)
PSV 1 Ros 0 2004-11-02 CGS (DaMarcus Beasley)
Ros 1 PSV 2 2004-10-20 CGS (Oyvind Storflor; Jefferson Farfán, John de Jong)
PSV 2 And 3 2000-11-08 CGS (Adil Ramzi 2; Bertrand Crasson, Jan Koller, Souleymane Youla)
And 1 PSV 0 2000-09-19 CGS (Didier Dheedene)
AJAX AMSTERDAM
Aja 2 Dyn 1 2010-08-25 C4Q (Luis Suárez, Mounir El Hamdaoui; Andriy Shevchenko)
Dyn 1 Aja 1 2010-08-17 C4Q (Oleh Husyev; Jan Vertonghen)
Aja 2 Oly 0 1998-11-04 CGS (Richard Witschge, Dean Gorre)
Oly 1 Aja 0 1998-10-21 CGS (Alexos Alexandris)
Aja 2 Pan 0 2016-11-24 EGS (Lasse Schöne, Kenny Tete)
Pan 1 Aja 2 2016-09-15 EGS (Marcus Berg; Bertrand Traoré, Jairo Riedewald)
Aja - Gal
Aja - Gal
Aja 1 Ros 1 2002-10-22 CGS (Zlatan Ibrahimovic; Dagfinn Enerly)
Ros 0 Aja 0 2002-10-02 CGS
Aja 2 And 0 2011-02-24 U2R (Hasan Sulejmani 2)
And 0 Aja 3 2011-02-17 U2R (Toby Alderweireld, Christian Eriksen, Mounir El Hamdaoui)
DYNAMO KYIV
Dyn 1 Oly 0 1975-10-01 C16
Dyn 2 Oly 2 1975-09-17 C16
Dyn 2 Pan 1 1998-11-25 CGS (Serhiy Rebrov, Angelos Basinas og; Andreas Lagonikakis)
Pan 2 Dyn 1 1998-09-16 CGS (Erik Mykland, Nikos Liberopoulos; Serhiy Rebrov)
Dyn - Gal -
Dyn - Gal -
Ros 1 Dyn 2 2000-03-08 C2G (Orjan Berg; Serhiy Rebrov 2)
Dyn 2 Ros 1 2000-02-29 C2G (Aliaksandr Khatskevich, Serhiy Rebrov; Jahn-Ivar Jakobsen)
And 4 Dyn 2 2000-10-18 CGS (Vladyslav Vashchuk, Tomasz Radzinski, Alin Stoica; Kakhaber Kaladze, Valentin Belkevich)
Dyn 4 And 0 2000-09-26 CGS (Andriy Husin, Maxim Shatskikh, Georgi Demetradze)
OLYMPIACOS PIREA
Pan 1 Oly 0 2017-03-19 NLe (Marcus Berg)
Oly 3 Pan 0 2016-11-06 NLe (Alberto Botía, Tarik Elyounoussi, Diogo Figueiras)
Gal 1 Oly 0 2008-10-23 UGS (Harry Kewell)
Oly 3 Gal 0 2003-11-05 CGS (Dimitrios Mavrogenidis, Nery Castillo, Giovanni)
Ros 1 Oly 1 2005-11-23 CGS (Thorstein Helstad; Rivaldo)
Oly 1 Ros 3 2005-09-13 CGS (Alejandro Lago; Per Ciljan Skjelberg, Dimitrios Mavrogenidis og, Oyvind Storflor)
Oly 1 And 2 2016-02-25 E16 (Konstantinos Fortounis; Frank Acheampong 2)
And 1 Oly 0 2016-02-18 E16 (Kara Mbodji)
PANATHINAIKOS ATHINAI
Gal 1 Pan 0 2009-12-03 ELG (Mustafa Sarp)
Pan 1 Gal 3 2009-09-17 ELG (Dimitrios Salpingidis; Elano, Milan Baros, Josu Sarriegi og)
Ros 2 Pan 2 2004-11-24 CGS (Thorstein Helstad 2; Michalis Konstantinou, Rudi Skacel)
Pan 2 Ros 1 2004-09-14 CGS (Ezequiel González; Frode Johnsen)
And 2 Pan 0 2003-02-27 U8F (Nenad Jestrovic)
Pan 3 And 0 2003-02-20 U8F (Emmanuel Olisadebe 2, Nikos Liberopoulos)
GALATASARAY ISTANBUL
Gal 3 Ros 0 1998-11-04 CGS (Hakan Sükür 2, Arif Erdem)
Ros 3 Gal 0 1998-10-21 CGS (Sigurd Rushfeldt 3)
And 2 Gal 0 2014-11-26 CGS (Chancel Mbemba 2)
Gal 1 And 1 2014-09-16 CGS (Burak Yilmaz; Dennis Praet)
ROSENBORG TRONDHEIM / ANDERLECHT BRUXELLES
Ros - And -
And - Ros -

Sunday 26 June 2016

The 2015-16 EFCL season

The 2015-16 EFCL classification table

Pos W-D-L Points-Nation-Team

01 (29-11-10) 98 SPA Real Madrid
02 (27-16-07) 97 SPA FC Barcelona
03 (26-14-10) 92 GER Bayern München
04 (25-14-11) 89 ENG Liverpool FC
05 (24-12-14) 84 ITA Internazionale Milano
06 (22-16-12) 82 GER Borussia Dortmund
07 (22-15-13) 81 ENG Manchester United
08 (21-15-14) 78 ITA Juventus Torino
09 (18-24-08) 78 ENG Chelsea London
10 (20-15-15) 75 ENG Arsenal London
11 (17-24-09) 75 ESP Valencia CF
12 (15-20-15) 65 FRA Olympique Lyonnais
13 (13-25-12) 64 ITA AC Milan
14 (15-15-20) 60 POR FC Porto
15 (14-16-20) 58 ITA AS Roma
16 (13-18-19) 57 GER Bayer Leverkusen
17 (11-23-16) 56 NET Ajax Amsterdam
18 (13-17-21) 56 POR Benfica Lisboa
19 (12-18-20) 54 NET PSV Eindhoven
20 (13-13-24) 52 GRE Olympiacos Pirea
21 (09-22-19) 49 TUR Galatasaray Istanbul
22 (10-18-22) 48 GRE Panathinaikos Athinai
23 (11-14-25) 47 BEL Anderlecht Bruxelles
24 (06-24-20) 42 FRA Olympique Marseille
25 (09-14-27) 41 UKR Dynamo Kyiv
26 (06-22-22) 40 NOR Rosenborg Trondheim