I feel like the gap between Belgium/Portugal/Netherlands isn’t really that big. Portugal and Netherlands have a stronger 'big 3", but Belgium has the stronger league on average with more teams capable of competing in Europe.
That, and Belgium has historically always been a top 10 ( even top 5 at times ) league.
I don’t really know what it means tbh. The 6th biggest league in Europe is probably 2. Bundesliga or English Championship, looking at clubs’ facilities, signings, revenues. Of course those teams don’t compete in Europe, but that’s the system in Europe, not the league. The highest revenue top-flight competition after France was Russia, now it’s probably not so it’s Turkey. In terms of sport results and famous clubs, the big one in Europe is Portugal, but Dutch clubs had some good results in UEFA competitions in recent years.
There are also several non-European leagues that are smaller in revenue than France but bigger than any other European top-flight - actually six of them by most recent data - so hard to say which two would be in the “7”.
All in all I don’t know what people mean saying “top 7”, but seeing the publication is German I assume Western European ones.
![[kicker/Squawka] Granit Xhaka has registered 129 successful passes into the final third - more than any other player in Europe‘s Top-7 leagues.](https://alien.top/pictrs/image/8ec95e49-bd65-450d-81f1-bb39193a2694.webp){kind=link}
Good to see that “the Top 7 leagues” establishes itself as measurement for stats
Can we expand it to top 13,895 leagues so I can quote my unimpressive soccer 5s stats?
Yes.
u/farqueue2 is dead last in shooting accuracy in the top 13,895 leagues according to Opta.
According to Opta u/farqueue2 ranks last in percentage of passes completed in the top 13,895 leagues.
Honestly…Should be top 8 leagues, imo.
I feel like the gap between Belgium/Portugal/Netherlands isn’t really that big. Portugal and Netherlands have a stronger 'big 3", but Belgium has the stronger league on average with more teams capable of competing in Europe.
That, and Belgium has historically always been a top 10 ( even top 5 at times ) league.
Belgium in 8th place crying.
I don’t really know what it means tbh. The 6th biggest league in Europe is probably 2. Bundesliga or English Championship, looking at clubs’ facilities, signings, revenues. Of course those teams don’t compete in Europe, but that’s the system in Europe, not the league. The highest revenue top-flight competition after France was Russia, now it’s probably not so it’s Turkey. In terms of sport results and famous clubs, the big one in Europe is Portugal, but Dutch clubs had some good results in UEFA competitions in recent years.
There are also several non-European leagues that are smaller in revenue than France but bigger than any other European top-flight - actually six of them by most recent data - so hard to say which two would be in the “7”.
All in all I don’t know what people mean saying “top 7”, but seeing the publication is German I assume Western European ones.
At least they have chocolate