Wednesday, August 17, 2005
The European League that matters!
I love to see how Charlton are doing compared to other clubs in Europe, and those clever guys at Eurofootsie have devised a way of doing this via a computer-generated ranking of Europe's best (and not so good) football clubs. It is based on each club's performance over its past 50 games (domestic and European - just domestic in Charlton's case!), but does get influenced by wins, draws, and losses each week.
I've been checking this website out for a couple of years now, and Charlton have floated between 34th (I think this was their highest ever position, around Xmas 2003) down to 120th or so. Currently, Charlton lie in 81st position, mainly due to their end-of-season slump. Hopefully The Addicks will start to move up a little due to having a good 2005-6 season, fingers crossed! Updates to the site seem to happen each Wednesday lunchtime.
So nearly all you other footie supporters (sadly, it only covers the top division in each country) can check out where your team is in this unofficial European league by clicking here, then clicking on "Ranking of All Teams" that's over on the left hand side of the page. Then just scroll down to see where you boys are, unless you are a Chelsea or Barcelona supporter, then you don't need to scroll as you are likely to be very near the top all season!
The website claims to be "Covering 643 teams in 54 countries on a database of 70773 games"! No mean feat... Spanish teams tend to be placed quite high I think, possibly due to the fact that they tend to beat each other more regularly than Premiership teams do versus Chelsea, Arsenal, and Man Utd.
So next time your club is trying to sign Johnny Foreigner from a club you've never heard of, and he says "no thanks" (or even "yes please"!), you can check out where they rank in Eurofootsie and understand a little better why he does or doesn't want to play for your heroes.
I've been checking this website out for a couple of years now, and Charlton have floated between 34th (I think this was their highest ever position, around Xmas 2003) down to 120th or so. Currently, Charlton lie in 81st position, mainly due to their end-of-season slump. Hopefully The Addicks will start to move up a little due to having a good 2005-6 season, fingers crossed! Updates to the site seem to happen each Wednesday lunchtime.
So nearly all you other footie supporters (sadly, it only covers the top division in each country) can check out where your team is in this unofficial European league by clicking here, then clicking on "Ranking of All Teams" that's over on the left hand side of the page. Then just scroll down to see where you boys are, unless you are a Chelsea or Barcelona supporter, then you don't need to scroll as you are likely to be very near the top all season!
The website claims to be "Covering 643 teams in 54 countries on a database of 70773 games"! No mean feat... Spanish teams tend to be placed quite high I think, possibly due to the fact that they tend to beat each other more regularly than Premiership teams do versus Chelsea, Arsenal, and Man Utd.
So next time your club is trying to sign Johnny Foreigner from a club you've never heard of, and he says "no thanks" (or even "yes please"!), you can check out where they rank in Eurofootsie and understand a little better why he does or doesn't want to play for your heroes.
