Top 5 league's in the world

Dub13

1)England
2)Spain
3)Italy
4)Germany
5)this is a hard one....but I will go for France,with Holland very close

Tellox

1 Spain
2 England
3 Italy
4 Germany
5 France

Dub13

The scottish race for third place is one of the best. There aer about 200 teams in with a shout of being third best in Scotland!!!!!

Dub13

the best way to compare is not to match up the top teams as they are much the same but to match up the mid table teams so.....
Would Tottenham (11th PL) beat Brescia (11th Seriea A) i think they would.

Tellox

Originally posted by Dub13
The scottish race for third place is one of the best. There aer about 200 teams in with a shout of being third best in Scotland!!!!!

Never knew scotland had a 202-team Premier League.
And edit your posts instead of double posting.

NightStrike

Difficult question. Whats it based on? I mean Italy is a very competitive and strong league for example but what about excitement? Not saying Italy is boring (although some people think it is) but I'd much rather watch Argentinian/Brazilian league than Italy.

Big Ears

I was just going to post that either the argentian or the Brazilian league should be in a top 5 leagues yoke . (their leagues are very close in quality and excitment so it would be hard to choose which one . or u could put both in .

The greek league aint bad , its on par with holland and germany at the moment but it dosent have all the international superstars so it aint so popular .

AngelofFire

Serie A
Premiership
La Liga
Ligue 1
Bundesliga

thejollyrodger

la liga... the rest are boring

smemon

premiership is the only league, it has everything.

defense, which la liga doesnt have (ie birmingham, charlton), attack (arsenal, utd, chelsea). and surprise packages (ie villa, charlton) and big flops- liverpool, man city.....

la liga plays the best football in the world but the PL has far more excitement and passion. crowds are better too. they sing rather than scream and blow whistles all the time.

seen as were talking leages here, champions league can be counted.

italy is boring, hardly any shocks, very little excitement.

1. premierleague
2. champions league
3. la liga
4. seria a
5. bundesliga

Dustaz

Originally posted by smemon
premiership is the only league, it has everything.

defense, which la liga doesnt have (ie birmingham, charlton),

lol ?

smemon

yeah, teams that will batter the hell out of you and treat every game as a cup tie. you dont see 2 footed lunges or headbuts in la liga. its a league for wimps that aren't strong enough for the italian or premierleague.

DEmeant0r

Premier League.
La Liga
Serie A
Bundesliga
France (whatever the premierleague of France is called)

jank

attack (arsenal, utd, chelsea)

chelsea attack yea right!?

id go for

la liga,
seria A
premiership
german league
french league
dont but into the sky sports mentallity of english league is the best in the world cause it aint(look at the winners of the previous 10 european trophies and tou will see a clearer picture)

3 european wins(liverpool 2001, utd 1999, arsenal cup winners cup 1994.....) in the last ten years or so not great by anymeans!!

however comeback to me in 2 years it might change

Big Chief

1. Spanish
2. English
3. Italian
4. Scottish
5. German

Dub13

ok so lets take top,mid and bottom.
Arsenal Vs R.Madrid....i go for Madrid 1:0 to Spain


Tottenham Vs Betis ...I go for spurs so thats 1:1


Wolverhampton Vs Murcia I go for wolves so thats 2:1 to us

jank

Originally posted by Dub13
ok so lets take top,mid and bottom.
Arsenal Vs R.Madrid....i go for Madrid 1:0 to Spain


Tottenham Vs Betis ...I go for spurs so thats 1:1


Wolverhampton Vs Murcia I go for wolves so thats 2:1 to us

you cant do it like that!! if it was that easy then there is no point haing this thread

Dustaz

Originally posted by smemon
yeah, teams that will batter the hell out of you and treat every game as a cup tie. you dont see 2 footed lunges or headbuts in la liga. its a league for wimps that aren't strong enough for the italian or premierleague.

What i meant was that i found it funny that you think the premier league is a league that features good displays of defense. The premier league features some of the worst defending in europe. It is very exciting though. The italian league is very defense oriented but can be dull as dishwater.

_blank_

Originally posted by Dub13
... so thats 2:1 to us

Us?...are u English?

bdiddy

Originally posted by smemon
yeah, teams that will batter the hell out of you and treat every game as a cup tie. you dont see 2 footed lunges or headbuts in la liga. its a league for wimps that aren't strong enough for the italian or premierleague.

Dont no if you were being sarcastic but if you werent i agree wit u(if u were i dont). Where would the premiership be today without the Roy Keane/Vinny Jones/Arsenal attitudes? I think its adds life to the games and the players arent pussyfooting around the pitch thinkin of what the FA wud say afterwards. Its a far better attitude than the divin cheatin Itialians or Spanish have.
Example: Gary Nevielle headbutting Steve McMannaman in the derby, fair play to him, he gives a **** about his club and gets as wound up for derbys as the fans do. I dont c players from other leagues getting too hot and bothered about playing a supposidly weaker opposition just because the fans are rivals.

SanFranMan

The top 3 look pretty unanymous (unanimous???) in composing of Eng, Sp, and Italy. Does anyone have anything informative to say about any other league? (aside from Ireland and Scotland as they wouldnt really come close)
Not much to talk about in the US. I know the Australian one is still producing a lot of young talent and some excitement.
The Belgian and Portugese are worth a mention to fill out # 4 and 5, in competition with Germany, Holland, France, Brazil, and Argentina.

_blank_

The Mexican League is quite good too, their teams get to play in the South American Champions League ( Copa Libertadores) even tough they are a CONCACAF team.

The MLS is not a bad league, but the way they have the draft means that no one team will doninate for any length of time.

People seem to have forgotten the Russian League, they have strong teams in Moscow, and some other cities.

woosaysdan

Spanish
English
Italian
German
French / Dutch

cournioni

1. La Liga
2. Premiership
3. Serie A or Bundesliga (can't decide, German teams are very solid)
5. France

AthAnRi

1. The National Hurling League.
2. The National Football League.
3. the Galway division 2b south league
4. The Six Nations
5. The League of extraordinary Gentlemen.

eirebhoy

It really should be called the top 5 leagues in Europe as most of us don't know much about the other leagues. In saying that, the top 5 leagues in the world would most likely be all European as that is were all the best players play and want to play.

Most of us watch the premiership more than any other club and I'm sure most Spanish and Italian's would think their respective league's are the best. It is really hard to seperate the top 3, its just a matter of personal preferance. If we are judging by the players in the league I think the Italian would win. We can say that there is players like Forsell that other leagues wouldn't really hear of but that is the same in their leagues.

Also, most top English teams would only have one well known striker but in Italy most top teams would have 2 or 3. Milan (Shevchenko, JD Tomasson, Inzaghi), Roma (Totti, Carew), Juve (Trezeguet, Del Piero), Inter (Vieri, Martins, Recoba). The Italian goalkeepers are probably the best in the world and the same could probably be said about their defenders. Then you have players like Kaka, Nedved, Emerson and Van der Meyde to name a few.

So judging by the quality of players I'd go with this:

1. Italian
2. Spanish
3. English
4. German
5. French (with 2 teams in the quarter's of the CL they deserve a place)

cournioni

LOL @ AthAnRi.

woosaysdan

Originally posted by AthAnRi
5. The League of extraordinary Gentlemen.

i forgot about that league:)

four*

sounds like top 5 in europe by everyones replys. nobody knows anything about the south american leagues or any other continents leagues really apart from through the world club cup.

eirebhoy

Originally posted by four*
sounds like top 5 in europe by everyones replys. nobody knows anything about the south american leagues or any other continents leagues really apart from through the world club cup.

Here is a list of all the player that got at least 1 vote in the 2003 FIFA world player of the year (voted by every international manager in the world). How many play outside Europe?

Zinedine Zidane
Thierry Henry
Ronaldo
Pavel Nedved
Roberto Carlos
Ruud van Nistelrooy
David Beckham
Raúl
Paolo Maldini
Andrej Shevchenko
Luis Figo
Michael Ballack
Oliver Kahn
Pablo Aimar
Gianluigi Buffon
Filippo Inzaghi
Michael Owen
Alessandro Nesta
Fernando Morientes
Cafu
Dado Prso
Fabio Cannavaro
Henrik Larsson
Paul Freier
Rivaldo
Robert Pires
Ronaldinho
Paul Scholes
Samuel Eto'o
Ahmed Hassan
Alessandro del Piero
Alexandro de Souza
Brad Friedel
Claude Makelele
Esala Masi
Iker Casillas
Javier Saviola
Marcel Desailly
Nelson de Jesus (Dida)
Rafael Marquez
Rafael van der Vaart
Rino Gattuso Roy Makaay
Takamatsu Daiki

four*

doesnt that tell you something. everyone is watching the first world leagues cos money is controling. but can you tell me how many of those players started in europe? were they crap when they played in their home league? just cos we havent heard of a player doesnt mean he's not good. same with the leagues!!

Dub13

ok so does anybody no there South American club football....?if so give us your top 5....I have to say I no next to nothing about them.

eirebhoy

Originally posted by four*
doesnt that tell you something. everyone is watching the first world leagues cos money is controling. but can you tell me how many of those players started in europe? were they crap when they played in their home league? just cos we havent heard of a player doesnt mean he's not good. same with the leagues!!

Of course they didn't start off in Europe, thats my point. As soon as they got the call they were off to Europe. These players were voted for by every single international manager in the world. I'm sure the manager of Brazil or Argentina would know the players in their respective countries but they still voted for the players based in Europe.

Dub13

The cash is in Europe thats why ther best players end up here but does that make Europe the best I am not sure....nobody seems to no much about football outside Europe.

eirebhoy

Originally posted by Dub13
The cash is in Europe thats why ther best players end up here but does that make Europe the best I am not sure....nobody seems to no much about football outside Europe.

it doesn't matter if its the money or the bad weather that attracts them, they still come over.