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1 year agoGood post OP. I thought it would be interesting to see what the map would look like if the honours were weighted by significance. I think it’s only right that a league title should be given greater importance than a league cup.
It wasn’t easy, but these are the weights I settled on (and I think we all can agree that these are fair) :
- League Title = 6 points
- FA Cup = 2 points
- League Cup = 1 points
- Champions League/European Cup = 25 points
- Europa League/UEFA Cup/Inter-Cities Fairs Cup = 4 points
- Cup Winner’s Cup = 4 points
- Europa Conference League = 2 points
- FIFA Club World Cup = 1 point
Here’s the updated map!
I wouldn’t possibly let my bias influence this!
Besides, English teams between them have won the CL/European Cup 15 times between them. And the teams who have won it at least once (Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Manchester City) have 62 league titles between them.
62/15 = 4.1
That’s empirical evidence that the European Cup is at least 4 times harder to win than the league, therefore 4 times more significant! (And it doesn’t even include the teams who have tried but never succeeding in winning it)