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Which League has the most parity?

Posted on 8/15/16 at 4:15 pm
Posted by kilo
Member since Oct 2011
27424 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 4:15 pm
Having a discussion with my physical therapist today about this and was wondering what this board's thoughts are? Out of these 5: La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, EPL and Ligue 1.

I admitadley don't watch enough Ligue 1 or Serie A to really rate them.

The others I would rate:

EPL
Bundesliga
La Liga

What are your thoughts and how would you rank them?

This post was edited on 8/15/16 at 4:16 pm
Posted by Mr Personality
Bangkok
Member since Mar 2014
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Posted on 8/15/16 at 4:18 pm to
Parity? Ligue 1 and Serie A?

Does not exist, though at least some Italian clubs could change that. France is a lost cause.
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 8/15/16 at 4:46 pm to
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Posted by John Keating
College Green, Ireland
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 8/15/16 at 4:48 pm to
Parity is largely non existent in most European leagues. It does not help when a club wraps up a league championship with a couple months left in the season. In Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, all but 1-3 clubs in those leagues have no chance of competing for a championship. La Liga and the Premier League have a little more parity.
Posted by Mr Personality
Bangkok
Member since Mar 2014
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Posted on 8/15/16 at 5:11 pm to
quote:

Parity is largely non existent in most European leagues.


Yeah, exactly. For some more extreme examples:

Dinamo Zagreb has won Croatia 11 years in a row

Sheriff Tiraspol in Moldova has won 14 titles in 16 years
This post was edited on 8/15/16 at 5:13 pm
Posted by kilo
Member since Oct 2011
27424 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 5:13 pm to
I do understand that in general. Was just wondering which of these leagues had the most parity in some of your eyes.
Posted by Riseupfromtherubble
You'll Never Walk Alone
Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 8/15/16 at 5:34 pm to
I'd put La Liga as being a little more even than the Bundesliga in the sense that Bayern is recently and historically the clear cut #1 with BvB close, but still more times than not decidedly behind them. At least in La Liga you have RM and Barca that are kind of 1a/1b, and Atletico is pushing really hard to make that a /1C, then Sevilla has a really good club as well.

The premiere league is the undisputed number 1 in this when it comes to the big European leagues. 1-8, while usually predictable, are capable of beating each other up. You don't see Real, Barca, Bayern losing often to mid table sides. On that note, I might even put Serie A over the Bundesliga and even with La Liga. Ligue 1 is a 1 horse race
Posted by cwil177
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2011
28430 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 7:17 pm to
I would say EPL easily. All of those other leagues have 1-2 (but usually one) teams that win it every year. Bayern, Juve, PSG, Barca/Real. Will there be a Leicester-like team in any of those leagues? Probably not.
This post was edited on 8/15/16 at 7:18 pm
Posted by Bench McElroy
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 8/15/16 at 10:13 pm to
Technically, it's Romania's Liga 1. They've had six different champions over the last ten years and Steaua Bucure?ti is the only club to win the league more than twice over that span. There's also been 13 different Romanian clubs that have finished in the top 3 over the last ten years which is a whopping total for a European football league. For comparison's sake, there have been seven football clubs (Leicester City, Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea) that have finished in the top 3 of the English Premier League in the last ten years.
Posted by SlowEasyConfident
Member since Nov 2015
6650 posts
Posted on 8/15/16 at 10:21 pm to
The EPL.. Leicester won the league last year
Posted by RRTiger
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Oct 2005
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Posted on 8/16/16 at 11:52 am to
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