American Reacts to European Soccer in Four Simple Steps: A Guide for Americans
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- Hello! I'm an American on a quest to learn more about history, geography and the universe in general. In this video I've taken up your suggestions to watch a simplified version of how European football is structured. The relegation system surprised me - I might like it better than the way the U.S. does their sports. Looking forward to learning more before (and during) my live stream tomorrow of England vs. Scotland! If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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Euro 2020 is a tournament between countries, held every 4 years.
TheUEFA Champions League is a competition between clubs, held every year.
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The games are supposed to be in 2020, but have been delayed.
@@googleaccount4471 CHELSEA!!!!!!!
Well after 56 years I finally understand the difference.🥳
@@oscarsusan3834 You're welcome :)
The Euros are for national teams, the Champions League is for club teams
And the world cup is for the entire globe.
@@NL-tq1yr but still national teams.
@@steruss9481 There is also a FIFA *Club* World Cup
@@fostena And the Olympics
One thing to add to that would be that players in national teams have to have the same nationality as their team. Club teams can have players from any nationality.
teams finishing on same points goes to goal difference
And if that is same, usually they go by the results between the two teams.
It used to be goal average before the mid 1970s- but that system favoured defensive sides and by mid 70s altered to the system used today - goal difference!
It depends on the tournament what comes next.
In the Premier League, it goes Points, Goal Difference, Goals Scored.
In the FIFA World Cup, it goes Points, Goal Difference, Yellow Cards, Goals Scored.
Other tournaments may have something different, I just can’t name them in complete confidence.
@@strawbryjamz1213 Yep. 1989 the English Champions were Arsenal with Liverpool in second place with the same points and goal difference. Arsenal got it on goals scored. Both sides knew what they needed which made it fair, especially as that last game of the season was coincidentally against each other. And I say that as a Liverpool fan.
At least that is better than on the old way of deciding European knockout ties in the cup competitions before penalties were introduced. Before the hated penalty shootouts they simply tossed a coin!
@@Dunk1970 the first game of football I remember . Total Classic .
Its called the pyramid system, every team no matter how small, is given hope that one day they can eventually be in the top league..
Which will never happen, no way some tiny club in Preston is going to overcomr Liverpool and co
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Preston has a long and famous history, the club of Tom Finley, if Bournemouth, Wigan, Barnsley, Brentford etc can make the PL then no reason why Preston can... success comes in many forms Salford FC, Wimbledon second coming, Sutton United, its not always about the super rich clubs..
@@davidhoward5392 and how long did those clubs stay? How many leauge titles or champions league titles did those clubs win?
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Wigan won the FA Cup, every season you can only win 3 domestic trophies, yes the bigger and richer clubs have an advantage but occasionally there is a Leicester, Forest, twice and Aston Villa have both won the European cup, Liverpool have won only 1 Premier League in the 30 plus years its being going. I am Newcastle fan we have not won a domestic trophy since 1955, our last trophy was in 69, the Inter City Fairs Cup , 52,000 still turn up to them under perform, its that belief that this will be our season. All fans are have the same belief at the start of each season before reality bites.
@@davidhoward5392 52,000 fans.is.nothing compared to the millions of fans man utd, Liverpool have.
Most of those trophies were won when most of the fans werent even born yet, and lol fa cup, no one cares about that, finishing 20th in epl get clubs more money than winning the fa cup, Portsmouth won the fa cup, look where they are now.
There are over 700 clubs in england, there is no need for so many tiny clubs wasting the fa money
When teams finish level on points, then goal difference is taken into account.
Counting goal difference is a way and is the main way. However, some leagues like Spain's La Liga and serie A of Italy, tie-breaker is decided by the results of the two games that the two teams involved playing each other in the season. Since it can also be a tie easily because of counting two games only, goal difference is used for La Liga and Serie A when the two games results is tied in a tie-breaker.
there are other ways too. In Brazil, first "untie" criteria is number of victories (a team can have same number of points, but less victories and more ties).
@@rogeriopenna9014 most leagues have a similar rule, its goal difference, then matches won and if they match in every stat a one off match to decide the winner
Hello, regarding this video, here are some points:
1. Regarding how good the teams promoted teams are versus relegated teams. In the English league, I would estimate that 2 out of the 3 teams promoted every year mange to survive, with 1 often getting immediately relegated again. Of the teams that go down, many find it difficult to get promoted again immediately. Again, perhaps 1 of the the 3 will manage it. However, you do get what are called yo-yo clubs who go up and down quite a bit.
2. In Europe, we consider the American system to be anathema. It is the antithesis of sport. Just a few months ago, some of the top teams from Europe wanted to form an American-style closed league and the reaction was overwhelming condemnation and they were forced to abandon to the idea and apologise. You have to have a system that lets every team have a chance (no matter how small in reality) of achieving the dream of going all the way. that is what it is all about.
3. Again, the Euros is national teams. He is talking about club soccer.
You now need to watch something about tactics! Good luck!
And the handball rule, which nobody understands anymore!
@Mickey Finn What you referring to?
Seeing this comment, I have to say that there are two differences here in the US that make our leagues different from the proposed Super League (which I also was hoping wouldn't happen):
1) We have a country that's large enough to basically have a domestic league that's bigger than some confederations' Champions' Leagues. So our equivalent of the Champions' League _is_ our domestic top flight, at least in mainly-American sports such as American football, basketball, and baseball, both because of the wide-ranging American geography and because of the lack of serious competition from clubs in other countries. Minor League Baseball teams are often owned by major league franchises (think Dortmund II or Jong Ajax) that use them for the identification and development of talent. One could say that some domestic European leagues are kind of similar to the American system because teams like Dortmund II or Jong Ajax--the closest equivalents to American minor league teams--cannot get promoted to their respective top flights.
2) We have a franchise system, which means that relegation would probably be illegal within our ownership structure: American sports teams' owners pay their leagues for the right to have a team in them, in the same way that the owner of a McDonald's restaurant pays McDonald's for the right to use their branding, products, etc., and as long as the franchisee hasn't violated the terms of the franchise agreement, his franchise can't be revoked since he paid for it. As I said before, many minor league baseball teams are owned by these major-league teams.
3) In most American sports, speed, strength, and skill are prized over endurance, meaning that players hit their peaks at a slightly older age. This means that they aren't missing out on valuable peak years if they pursue higher education before signing for a professional club, and also makes the college system a valuable farm system (particularly in basketball and Am. football). Because of this, as well as the loyalty many college-educated Americans feel to their alma mater's sports teams, college football and basketball are very popular in the US.
@@philipmcniel4908 Excatly. You have a franchise system. Not a sports system :) It's not about the sports at all, at the core. It is about business.
@@bjrntorkeldahl7938 Historically, it's been kinda both, depending on which team and which era. I think our system originally developed around the realities of starting a professional baseball league in a large country in the 19th century (remember, the National League--now part of MLB--was started in 1876, making it the oldest currently-contested professional sports league anywhere in the world).
The Euros and the UEFA Champions leage are 2 different things.
They have the same structure, but the UEFA Champions League is played every year and is a club competition.
The Euros, on the other hand, are played once every 4 years and is a national competition, where national teams compete.
And is happening right now.
It’s once every 2 years not 4
@@andrecaddle8662 Nope, the Euros, and the World cup, are played every 4 years, unless the idiots at FIFA change it, like they want to.
Just to confuse you, the English football leagues has 11 tiers in its official structure and clubs can in theory rise through the tiers by promotion. A notable example is AFC Wimbledon, formed in 2002 playing in the 9th tier and now due to successive promotions are playing in the 3rd Tier.
Better example in Germany. RB Leipzig formed in 2009 and now won the DFB Cup and are second champions.
Champions League is a Club competition, so New England Patriots or Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL.
The EURO 2020 should have been last year, relegated to this year due to Covid.
The EURO is a National Teams competition, so like The USA against Russia in Ice Hockey (or more precise Austria vs Netherlands like) today
About Relegation: While normally the teams that go down a tier are normally one of the stronger teams its not always the case because of the transfers of players (same with teams going up a tier transfers can help them in the next tier).
Some football/soccer players have a bit of ego & will demand to be sold because they see playing in tier 2 as an insult e.g. Team A gets relegated to tier 2, they might have to sell their 3 best players to teams in tier 1 at a discount price (around 50% less then what they could of got if they stayed in tier 1) & 9/10 have trouble replacing them with the same level of quailty player.
That's what's so scary about relegation it has the potential to cripple your team and if your recruitment sucks you could end up being stuck in tier 2 for a while like Leeds Utd, went down to tier 2 in 2004 I think and it took them 16 years to return to tier 1 because of poor decisions.
The Champions League is for club football, which this year was won by Chelsea, as you know. The Euros and World Cup are completely different - these are for national teams, such as England, Scotland and Wales.
yeah the World Cup is a compition between nations where as the Baseball World Series has noting to do with the World as only US clubs(Maybe the odd Canadian club) are able to partake.
And, as far as the world cup goes, the USA. They beat the UK in Brazil in 1950.
@@keithfrost1190 No they did not. The is no team called the UK, they beat England. There are 4 international teams in the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
@@paulwalsh598 You are right and I am sorry for such a stupid mistake on my part. I am not a fan of football but did know it was England that the USA beat. Btw where did the other UK teams come in the world cup 1950?
@@keithfrost1190 I have no idea Keith. I do know that Northern Ireland did not qualify as 1982 was the first time they reached a World cup finals. In 1950s Scotland would have been the 2nd best of the UK national teams, but recently Wales would be more successful than Scotland.
England by virture of having the largest population by far of those 4 countries would be the only one to be regularly competitive with the tops international teams but would still be behind the level of Germany, Italy, France and Spain.
I’m glad you was straight into another video to try and understand the game. Huge respect
Although we often use a 24 hour clock (military time), we'd never say "ninteen hundred o'clock", we'd just say Seven. Also great reaction, the guy does a pretty decent job as summarising it and you asked some very good questions. And yes the idea is that the relegated teams have not performed as well as the top three of the second tier, so they are promoted
sorry but i do use 24 hour and call 1900 Nineteen Hundred hours so the Use of 'Never' is not acturate but admitily i am in the minorty on this
True, true. The 24-hour format is mostly just for the writing. We see 19:00 but read it as "seven o'clock".
@@lordomacron3719 Very much so. to the point where you are the first person i've ever encountered who uses 24 hour clock phonetically, if that's the case
@@lordomacron3719 There are at least two of us.
@@RifqiMainGitar Here in Germany, you could say 'seven o'clock' or 'nineteen o'clock', but in German obviously ;)
The 3 teams that get relegated and the 3 teams that replace them are usually of a similar standard and it’s common for teams to get relegated at the end of the season they got promoted. There are a lot of “yo-yo” teams such as Norwich and Watford in England
Yes. As for the question: "Are the top three teams from lower division better than bottom three from top division" - well, we don't really know, but it's always fun to find out!
Football is split into two types of games, Club football, this is where you see clubs Like Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich etc, these play in their national league, cups and Champions Leaguer. The other type of football is National Football, this is where countries play each other, players can only play for the country they are a citizern of, so you can have players who play in multiple different countries leagues who all play for the same country. The countries play the World Cup, and a Continental Competition for Europe ths is the Euros.
Players play for clubs, they can play in any country, for whoever is willing to pay them the wages they want and they will sign a contract. The best players from each nation can be chosen to play for their country (this is a massive honour and the players get paid a relatively tiny amount to play for the nation, which in most cases is usually donated to a charity)
Champions league is club teams, euros is national teams.
The champions league is separate from the premier league. The league below the premier league is called The Championship, not the champions league.
Yes. England soccer leagues have strange naming. It is so confused. Tier 1 is the premier league and Tier 2 is the championship league.
@@catchnkill And the one they call Division One is actually Division Three!
Good luck for your first ever livestream tomorrow Sogal! I hope your buildup and preparations go well and I’m confident you’ll make a spectacular debut.👍
If Scarlett misbehaves show her a red card!😜😆
Really enjoy your videos, keep them coming
Extatic to be getting loads of content recently!
The EURO is a competition between every countries from europe every 4 years and the champions league is between the best city clubs every year.
Both are really really exiting!!
Hello yet again SoGal and Roger. This was better.
So many videos, just need Roger doing live concert of 4'33" next.
Good luck with live stream football.
Actually, in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th tiers in England, we do have playoffs between 4 teams (3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th) the winner of the playoff final get promoted along with the teams who finished 1st and 2nd in the league. Basically the top 2 teams in the league get promoted without playing any playoffs.
And in Germany the playoff is between 3rd place in the 2nd league and 3rd bottom in the 1st league only.
The playeroffs games are for making more money.
@@catchnkill don't worry mate, Arsenal will be relegated to the championship next season. Then if they win the playoffs, I'll just say "The Playoffs are only for making more money" 😂
@@spacefox1016 It won't happen soon. Arsenal still has some buffer. Not quite bad enough. In the past season, we have beaten Man U, Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Leicester City.
@@catchnkill did you beat Liverpool and Man City? No! We did though. Arsenal didn't even get Europa League 😂
Funny, I subscribed this channel because of the football videos and it's great that are history videos too! :D
I'd like to suggest this video called World Cup explained in less than 2 minutes.
Once you've understand the relevance of the team leagues around the world, you can imagine a cup where you take the best players of the world and just scramble them into teams. It's really nice to see rivals playing together, their different strategies, some times a lack of rapport, that kind of stuff..
I hope you keep going!
In fact, the most important competition is not between clubs but national teams. The World Cup is played every four years in one location chose and the best national teams plays in a structure similar to explained here for the UEFA Champions League. Also, every continent has its own National team competition played again every four years.
to answer your question in regards to the total points thing:
it's more than possible to have teams tied on points at the end of a season, in the event this happens the stat that dictate league positioning is the 'goal difference' (goals scored minus goals conceded), and the team with the best goal difference (highest), in descending order finishes the furthest up the league table etc, in the somewhat unlikely event that teams have both the same points total, and the same goal difference, the next stat that decides standings is the 'goals for' stat, so lets say for ease of explaining that 2 teams finished the season on 70 points, and both had a positive goal difference of 40, the team given the higher standing placement in the table is the team that scored the most goals of the two here, so say for instance one team scored a total of 60 goals and conceded 20 (+40 goal difference), but the other team scored 55 goals and conceded 15 (same +40 goal difference) it's the 60 goals scored that puts them highest in the table standings.
I always thought, that after goal difference, the next stat that counts is number of won matches.
as a bayern munich fan im glad the producer of the video took the 2012/2013-season as an example. xD
Once again, you're spoiling us with all these new videos, thanks! As I said on the other football video, I think an issue Americans have trouble with understanding football is that in football one has both club competitions and national tournaments. That doesn't really arise in the US because nobody else plays your sports so you don't have international competitions much :p In football there's local clubs which can buy players from anywhere, and then there's national teams which must be composed from people from that country (rule bending aside) - because it's the same players involved, people can end up playing against their usual teammates.
"Are the bottom 3 teams in the top league not better than the top 3 teams of the lower divisions ?" That's the beauty of it, a good team can be relegated after a bad season, and bounce back, a bad team can have a really good season, get promoted, and knocked straight back down - or just about anything else can happen.
International competitions like the World Cup or the current European Championships (postponed due to Covid) are played during the summer close season, with no club competitions to interrupt.
You are certainly taking your learning about football seriously! Well done!
If two teams are on the same points, then the team with the better goal difference wins (basically who has scored more and conceded less)
Next I suggest you learn about rugby as the British Lions start their tour of South Africa very soon
I am really looking forward to this - one thing I would ask, could you do a "time check" with us (say at kickoff) so that we can watch in sync as there will be delays over youtube etc. TIA.
9:20 The English League structure is
1. Premier League (20 teams): The bottom three teams are relegated.
2. English Football League Championship (24 teams): Top two automatically promoted; next four compete in the play-offs, with the winner gaining the third promotion spot. The bottom three are relegated.
3.English Football League One (24 teams): Top two are automatically promoted; next four compete in play-offs, with the winner gaining the third promotion spot. The bottom four are relegated.
4.English Football League Two (24 teams): Top three teams are automatically promoted; next four compete in play-offs, with the winner gaining the fourth promotion spot. The bottom two are relegated.
5.National League (level 5, 24 teams): The champions are promoted; next six compete in play-offs, with the winner gaining the second promotion spot. The bottom four are relegated to either North or South division as appropriate.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_league_system
Most European countries have the SAME system, maybe with less teams.
Scotland has its OWN league called the Scottish Professional Football League.
The top Scottish league is called the
1.Scottish Premiership.
Below them are the
2.Scottish Championship
3.Scottish League One
4.Scottish League Two
Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_football_league_system
As others have already pointed out, the Champions League is a Club level competition which occurs every year. This tournament features all the best of the individual league clubs across Europe which have won their respective league competition. Or, who have finished in the top two to four spots of their respective leagues in the prior year. The actual number of teams who qualify directly from each league depends on a given league's UEFA ranking. For example, in England and Spain the teams that finish in it's top four places qualify directly to the tournament.
In those leagues who only have one or two teams (or none) that qualify directly to the champions league. There is a preliminary round, which consist of three qualifying stages and a play-off round, all played over two legs. The six surviving teams enter the group stage, joining the 26 teams that have already qualified in advance. The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four teams and play each other in a double round-robin system. The eight group winners and eight runners-up proceed to the knockout phase that culminates with the final match in late May or early June.
It should also be noted in the latter stages of the tournament. I think beginning with the round of 16, a team's opponent is determined by a draw. So teams never knows actually who their next opponent is going to be. Further, at this stage of the competition an away goal is given a higher weight. That is to say, if a given team (B) draws it's away game, let's say, one to one. And also ties its home game zero to zero. That home team (B) will win this particular stage of the competition because it was able to score an away goal. Even though the away goal ended up in a game that was tie.
It's possible to have the same amount of points. This happens very often, when this happens there is some critterias to determine the better team, these are normally number of wins, number of goal balance, number of losses etc...
Hi there
i'll try to answer the questions you've made on this one
1 - What if two teams end up tied up in points by the end of the League?
That's VEEEEEERY unlikely, but, just in case it does, there are some criteria to set them apart. It varies according to each league, but most of the time it's like this: If two teams are tied, the team with the most wins is the champion. If they're also tied in number of wins, then comes goal difference (goals scored minus goals conceded). If again there's another tie, the team that scored more goals is the winner. The same criterea is used to determine other positions like when there are two teams tied in the 4th and 5th positions.
2 - Aren't the bottom three teams in the better league still better than the top three in the lesser league?
It depends. Football is actually a very levelled sport. Many times matches are decided in the very small margins so even when a team is better than the other, the worse team still have a decent chance of winning. The same goes for tournaments: sometimes the very best teams aren't having that good of a season and some underdogs actually can surprise everyone. Check out Leicester City 15/16 campaign on the Premiere League. They were in no way, shape or form favorites, but they ended up winning the league that season. But many times, yeah. A team is promoted in one season just to be relegated in the next.
3 - Is it the Euros?
Nope. The Euros is a National Squads competition. Every country - the USA included - has a national team formed by the best players of that nationality. So in the Euros you'll see matches like Germany vs England or France vs Spain. The Champions League is a club tournament, teams that play in their national leagues are the ones playing this. Those teams are from European countries, but they're not national selections, they're formed by both local and foreign players. In the Champions League you will watch matches like Bayern Munich vs Manchester City or Paris Saint German vs Barcelona. It's club tournament, not a Nations tournament. The UCL happens every year, the Euros only take place once every four years. The last one was in 2016. This one is in 2021 but just because of COVID, that's why it's being played in 2021, it was postponed. The next one will be played in 2024.
For teams on the same number of points, the tiebreaker depends on the league, although it's mostly one of 2 options:
1) Goal difference: this is the number of goals a team scores minus the number of goals a team concedes in a season. If this is tied, (at this point it is already rare for 2 teams to be on the same points and goal difference), it can come down to the number of goals scored (eg. If a team scored 1 goal and conceded none, and a team scored 2 and conceded 1, both would have +1 goal difference but the second team would be ahead because they scored more overall). If teams are still tied, it usually comes down to number of wins (eg a team who won 1 game and lost 2 would be on the same points as a team who drew 3 games, but team 1 would be ahead because they won more games). There are a few other criteria they can apply as well after this. The tiebreaker after the goal difference can vary from league to league.
2) Head to head record: only the results between any teams on tied points are considered, and then ordered with the most points in those games, then goal difference and goals for etc.
Normally, if 2 teams are still tied after applying all of 1 or 2 (depending on what their league has agreed to), they use the other of the methods. If teams are still tied at that point, normally a league will just declare them level in the table, unless their positions straddle important places in the table (eg 1 place would relegate a team and the other place would not), in which case a league would most likely hold a playoff game between the 2 teams, although since you've applied so many criteria to get to that point in the first place, it's ridiculously rare and I don't think I've ever heard of it happening. The only time it might happen is in small leagues of 4 teams (such as in the Champions League), where the reduced number of games leads to an increased likelihood of ties taking place on all counts, and since there's no space in the calendar to have an extra playoff game, they would put through the team with the least discipline points (gained by getting yellow or red cards), and if still tied literally just do a random draw to determine which teams qualify
The world's first association football league, named simply The Football League, was created in 1888 by Aston Villa club director William McGregor. It was dominated by those clubs who had supported professionalism. The twelve founding members were six from Lancashire (Accrington, Blackburn Rovers, Burnley, Bolton Wanderers, Everton and Preston North End) and six from the Midlands (Aston Villa, Derby County, Notts County, Stoke, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers).
Just to show how results can go the 2013 FA Cup Final was the 132nd final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest football cup competition. The match, contested by Manchester City and Wigan Athletic, took place on 11 May 2013 at Wembley Stadium in London, and kicked off at 5:15 p.m. It was Wigan's first FA Cup final and Manchester City's 10th. Wigan pulled off a shock victory against favourites City, winning in circumstances reminiscent of the 1988 FA Cup Final when Wimbledon overcame Liverpool. Ben Watson's stoppage-time headed goal produced the "greatest FA Cup Final upset for a quarter of a century". In the United Kingdom, the match was televised by ITV and ESPN.
On 20 May, Wigan had an open-top bus tour of the town to celebrate the FA Cup victory. Manchester City sacked manager Roberto Mancini two days later, confirming rumours of the manager's fate before the match. Wigan failed to avoid relegation from the Premier League, becoming the first team to win the Cup and succumb to relegation in the same season.
Wigan Athletic manager, Roberto Martínez a Spaniard, is now the manager of the Belgium National Football team. They are ranked the #1 team in the FIFA World rankings.
Founded in 1904 to provide unity among national soccer associations, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) boasts 209 members, rivalling that of the United Nations, and is arguably the most prestigious sports organization in the world.
This tournament taking place at the moment is held by UEFA, The Union of European Football Associations. UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, planned UEFA Europa Conference League, and UEFA Super Cup, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions.
As of today the FIFA World rankings are:
# 1 Belgium
# 2 France
# 3 Brazil
# 4 England
# 5 Portugal
# 6 Spain
# 7 Italy
# 8 Argentina
# 9 Uruguay
# 10 Denmark
# 17 Wales
# 20 USA
# 44 Scotland
# 47 Republic of Ireland
# 48 Northern Ireland
2:45 Very good question!!! It does happen teams ending up with the same amount of points in the League! Then it becomes a process of elimination like, the team that has the most goals, the team that suffered less goals... The criteria changes to those values. It becomes about the performance rather than the points basically. There's always a difference...
Understandable that you didn't know because it's almost like an underground rule. Even some people here don't know exactly how that works
For the 1st and 2nd place with the same points at the end of the season question.
There's an order of things that determine who wins.
Mainly its goal difference that settles it (you get a + or - goal difference every match to equal the + or - goals you scored compared to the opposing team)
There's a bunch of things that settles it if the previous one is still equal.
The last thing is alphabetical order.
He mentioned it: "club soccer". The EURO is a quadrennial, continent-wide tournament. Like any other continental association that hold those tournaments every four years; for example the African Cup or Copa América.
The Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844 was both the first official international cricket match and the first official international game of any sport. The match between the two national teams was billed as 'United States of America versus the British Empire's Canadian Province’. The match took place between 24 and 26 September 1844 at the St George's Cricket Club's ground at what is now 30th Street and Broadway (then Bloomingdales) in Manhattan.
Canada won by 23 runs. On the first day, there were from 5,000 to 20,000 spectators and an estimated $100,000 to $120,000 worth of bets were placed on the match.
Answering your question in 2:50. Yes it is possible and more common than everybody espected. When that happens, there are a series of criteria for untied and to declare which team is going to be the champion, the criteria is previusly accorded by all the teams in each league in every country, so is not always the same and can change as many times the teams agrees prior the begining of each season.
The most common way, is the direct scoring balance between the two teams involved (remember this teams faces twice times per season). Other common way is with the total scoring account, so in case of a tie at the end of the season, the final winner would be the team that scored more goals.
In italian Serie A, in the case of two or more teams having the same amount of points, "classifica avulsa" comes into play: things like points earned in head-to-head games, goal difference in h2h, amount of goals scored in h2h etc are used to determine which team comes first in the standings.
3:38 - Yes, the top league is always better in quality and resources, so that is why a team that promotes to a higher tier is mainly fighting for surviving there for the first years. Then they can build up their club and try to eventually develop into a top contender. It also is common for some teams to become "elevator teams" that are too good to 2nd league but not good enough for the 1st one and they end up going up and down all the time.
Or thay finish 9-13 Place get half thair team Sold And get rellegatet in thair 2. Season
In case of equal number of points between two or even more teams there is a series of tiebreakers which hold the same way for teams contesting the championship, teams going (or not) to a european competition or deciding on who is relegated (or promoted for lower leagues) or stays up (or stays down for lower leagues)
There are playoffs in Football in the English Premier League the Championship winner and runner up are promoted automatically, the 3rd promotion spot is taken by the playoff winner which is a 2 leg semi final where the match is played at home then away and the scores are added after both games ended which is called aggregate score and contested between the 3rd - 6th position clubs with the final at Wembley
When there is a points tie, different leagues break it in different ways. Goals difference is the more common one. The number of goals a team conceded is deducted from the number of goals they scored, the team with the biggest difference wins.
Some use head to head. The two teams must've played each other at some point, the team that got the most points in those 2 games win.
To answer your 1st question it’s rare after an 10 month season in club football for teams to end level on points but it has happened before so generally each league had numerous tie breakers (although the order off them can vary sometimes) generally they fall into one off two camps ……
English system… tie breakers order if finish level on points at end off season/ league
1. Best overall goal difference (goals scored- goals conceded = your goal difference)
2. Most overall goals scored
3. Most points but among tied teams game’s only … other games points are dropped for this tie breaker(s)
4. Best g.d among tied teams games only
5 most goals a..t.t.g only.
6. By this stage it’s super unlikely to still be tied for a whole season but it happens more often for World Cup mini group stages which also run on a league system (except teams playing single round robin at the final tournament normally in a single/neutral nation) but if still the case you can go to either a one game playoff (if 2 teams tied) at a neutral venue … or do what fifa World Cup does as it doesn’t have the time/space for such a playoff before it’s knockout stage and as it’s league(s) stage is 3 games/ or far fewer games ties are far more likely fifa tends to go towards fewest cards (yellow and red) /rankings points / penalty shootout but only if two teams are tied and teams did play each other in the final group league game and/or just drawing off lots /picking you name out off a bag but if it’s got to this stage their is literally nothing between two teams so hence the soccer version off paper,scissor stones!
The other most likely tie breakers order is what I call the Spanish system which is virtually the same as the English but they put head to head results as the 1st tie breakers before then only going onto “overall “ records if still tied … the European nations championship and champions league also follow more the Spanish system … while personally I prefer the English system ( because for me otherwise why not just play knockout football?) … 1. I may be a bit biased as an Englishman and 2. The Spanish version does make more sense to leagues which only have two strong teams ( which is Spain is 2 out off every 3 years at least ) or ironically Scotland who have the English/British system but as it’s always Glasgow two teams Celtic and rangers winning the league every year since the early 80s … so I could see the Spanish tie break order being better there but whatever order you go it’s all in the black and white off the competition rules before a ball is kicked…!and you go from there it’s kinda like baseball until this year half the league went with designated hitter half not … with soccer half go overall records 1st tie breakers then if still tied then go to the H2h record = English style rules
And half go Spanish styles rules
H2h 1st tie breaker records 1st then if still tied overall record tie breakers after.
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When 2 teams have the same amount of points, the position will be determined by the goal difference (goals shot minus goals against)
The cup system, besides the changes of a lower ranking knocking out a higher ranking team. It gives a few advantages, 1 the lower team can get quite some money from a sold out stadium, lets a semi pro team, draws a team from the 2nd best league, the number fans etc. that comes will make a difference. Or lets say a top 8 team from the best league faces some a 2nd best league, they often test the players that are close to making the team, but are perhaps not quite there.
The difference between the relegated teams and the others in the 2nd best league are often significant but the money they earn from TV, player ambitions etc. often means that it can be difficult to keep the same team if you are relegated, so you often (not all ways) selling your stars. Other times the Club being relegated are given 1 year or so by sponsors etc. to get promoted to the best league, before their budget is lowered.
The Euros is an international tournament, which occurs every 4 years (although the 2020 tournament has been delayed until 2021).
It's contested by national teams rather than clubs. Each country picks its best players regardless of what clubs they play for.
Basically it's like the World Cup, but only features European teams.
If at the end of the season 2 teams have the same number of points, generally the one with the best "goal difference" (goals scored minus goals conceded) wins. It depends on the country. Sometimes it can be the direct results between both teams will determine which won is ranked higher.
Relegation in football gave birth to the term "yo-yo club", referring to clubs who constantly move between the upper and lower division.
A little fun fact about the Cup, which is held in the middle of the week...
In 1993, the cup finale was Hannover 96 (team from the highest league in Germany, the Bundesliga) against Hertha BSC II (the amateur team of second league team Hertha Berlin). I think the amateur team was in the 4th league at that time. So it's not impossible for smaller teams to win. On a good day, every team can beat everyone.
its possible to tie points, but we have ways to untie based on stats wich change for each league. some start by counting goals scored - goals received, others go with goals scored away in direct matches between the two teams tied
For leagues and tie breakers for teams finishing on same points In the English Premiere league. (some are slightly different and take head to head results over goal difference i.e italy.)
If equal on points go to goal difference
If equal on goal difference then it goes to goals scored.
If this is equal then it will go to head to head points between teams involved. (note these only apply if the position is to decide champions, European spots or relegation otherwise teams can tie.)
If this is equal then it will go away goal between the teams concerned.
Then after all that a playoff would be held.
Note that goal difference or goals scored are normally enough and the other tie breakers have not been needed.
The US does have a tournament that allows amateur teams to potentially play professional teams. It’s called the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. It has been in existence for nearly 110yrs. 2020 is the only year that it has been canceled (they played through both world wars). The 2021 competition is currently delayed. College teams are not eligible since they’re governed by the NCAA and not the USSF (US Soccer Federation).
There are many more professional teams here in the states than most people are aware of. There are 3 professional divisions in the US pyramid - MLS, USL-Championship, and USL-League One. The fourth division is for semi-professional leagues, and then you get to the amateur level (which is un-official to preserve the players amateur status for collegiate qualification). The semi-professional level can be a quagmire, it consists or regional and state adult leagues that can be confusing to keep straight, and many play short seasons in the spring and fall to allow collegiate players to participate on the amateur level when their college leagues are out of season.
Other than MLS (and possibly the USL-C, depending on location), the lower divisions of the US soccer pyramid are largely ignored and forgotten. But, the sport IS slowly growing in this country. And more people are becoming aware.
In Football, you have 2 kind of competitions "Club Football" and "Nations Football". The FIFA sets an International Calendar each year so both types can co-exist. So between Leagues/Cups/Champions League, you have sometimes a period of international games. The EURO 2020 is a nations tournament, initially to be held in 2020 before, you know what. The Euro is played every 4 years, like the FIFA World Cup (but not at the same time obv) and there are friendly intenrational games and qualifying games at continental level for those competitions in the two years before.
The Champions League is the Pinnacle of Club Football. This competion is run yearly, from September to May/June like in this format. This is the top-tier European Cup for clubs and 2 others are existing for teams who were not good enough to qualify for the Champions.
A professional football player is eligible to play for both kinds of football. Prior to each international games period, the National Team Head Coach is calling-on a list of greatest players of the nation. So during this 8/9-months season the biggest who are on the greatest teams plays more than 60 matches, mostly twice a week.
We also have in the FA Cup what's known as "Giant Killers" Where a high-ranked team comes up against a low-rank team (who never read the script) and beat them. Case in point in 2015: Chelsea lost 2-4 to Bradford City. Sadly it didn't help them much as they were knocked out in the quarter-finals (i think). The club was relegated to League Two in April 2019.
Club teams have players from all over the world, basically depends on how much money the club has and buys the best players they can. Those teams play in the leagues desceibed
Euros and world cup are national teams, those teams have players with the country's nationality that are selected by the manager from whatever club team they usually play at during seasons. These national teams are usually the best players from the club teams they're from and that makes for some very fun matches. Also sometimes players belong to rival club teams in their leagues but have to work together in the national teams if they're from the same country and selected to play
Euros and Champions League are both European Cup Championship
But Euros are Championship for Countries such as England, Spain and others. There are usually 24 countries that qualify.
While Championship League are Club competitions for Clubs across Europe such as Manchester united, Barcelona, Chelsea and other Clubs that Qualify. There are usually 32 Clubs across Europe that qualify. Finally Euros is held every 4 years, while Championship League is every year.
When two or more teams tie in points gathered, there are other ways to untie these squads. The criteria depends on each league and federation etc, but usually goes like this: points, then direct confrontation (how did the tied teams do against each other), and if that is still a draw contest, goal difference, if the tie remains goals scored, if even then it's still a tie, some leagues might use the disciplinary aspect of competition to decide the best campaign: who has the fewer yellow cards, then red cards, then fouls etc.
WHAT IF BY ANY CHANCE NOTHING CAN SEPARATE TIED TEAMS? Then an extra match is held between the tied teams.
Fun fact: until recently Italian league had NO CRITERIA to determine the best of two tied teams, so if any teams ended the season tied up in points an extra game was the only way to change this. That is no longer a problem in serie A though.
Some countries have seasons that don't run in the "traditional" Aug-May sense - usually these are countries such as Norway and Sweden where the winters are too cold and dark to play, and they have summer seasons (something like March to October...)
Also, some leagues have a slightly different format - in Scotland, for example, the top division has 12 teams, so each team plays each other team three times, then the league splits in two - the top six then play each other once more, and the bottom six do the same... meaning that sometomes the seventh-placed team can finish with more points than the sixth place team, by getting more in that last part of the season...
If two teams have the same points, you must take care of the goal average of each one of them. And no, the Uefa Champions League and the Euro Cup are not the same. The first is a competition of clubs around Europe (Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Bayern Munich...) ; the second is a competition of National Teams of nations around Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands...)
Relegation can be different:
Direct, three descend , three ascend.
Or with a promotion championship.
Normally, the last one descend and champion ascend directly, but anothers four teams plays play-offs to decide who win the right to first division.
1) there are rules to break a tie, and in extreme cases, a tie-break match will be played;
2) the top 3 teams in the 2nd division can be better of worse that the ones relegated - there's no rule. Sometimes a team manages to be promoted in 1st div and the next season manages not to be relegated back - and that's an achievement usually - sometimes traditionally strong teams have a very bad season and may be relegated, and then they go dominate the 2nd div the following season for a quick comeback in 1st. There's usually some kind of overlap, because as they say in the video, 2nd div teams are completely independent from 1st div ones, so - in theory - they can get as good players as the top teams if they can afford them; of course that's rarely the case due to the difference in money among the division;
3) the one going on now is a competition among countries - the Champion League is about club teams. The video is about club soccer. For national teams there's the Word Championship every 4 years, and a Europen Championship also every 4 years (2 years apart from the World one). There is no relationship between the Euro and the World Championships. EURO 2020 is the Europen Championship that should have happened in 2020.
The calendar is organized so that a club that is active in both cup and champions league can support all matches. around Sunday the national league matches and around Thursday the cup matches (national or international). The clubs qualified for the international cups can count on very high television revenues, audiences and sponsors and, usually, they also have "long" benches to make up for any absences due to injury or fatigue.
In England we have many historic clubs in the lower divisions. A lot of top players in the Premier League played in the football league first. When your club is promoted to the Premier League you get a huge increase in revenues, so you can invest in a much improved squad for the new season.
Enjoyed your reaction :) I did explain in the comments yesterday that these are CLUB or individual team events like The Oakland Raiders or Chicago Bulls NOT the 2 major NATIONAL TEAM trophies which are THe World Cup held in 2006,2010,2014,2018 etc and THe EUROS held in 2008,2012,2016 and normally 2020 (covid stopped this and this is what Englabd v Scotland is part of in your live streaming. ). In CLUB Football there is a $240,000,000 difference NOT $40,000,000 between playing in The Premiership and Championship (Nothing to do with "Champions League " ). Once the Top 3 in England are Promoted typically 1 or even 2 might get relegated back as some teams "Yo Yo" because they are too good for The Second Tier but there is a Gulf between the Top 2 Divisions in class. Normally one team surprises everyone (Leeds finished 9th and were exceptional while the other 2 promoted teams got relegated ). This 3 up, 3 down applies to all 4 major English Divisions comprising 92 Professional teams.
In England there is ALSO the Carabao League Cup for those 92 Professional teams only and again played in the 8 months of the season so the TOP Teams are simultaneously competing in FOUR events. 1/ Premier League 2/F A Cup (they enter in Round 3 ) 3/ Carabao League Cup 4/ CHAMPOINS League (usually the Top 4 English teams will play in this while the teams finishing 5th/6th/7th will enter the secondary European CLUB tournament:The UEFA Europa Cup. All this in 8 months !!!
When a team is promoted they are given a share of The TV money and buy better players to have a better chance of doing well.
Some teams have had 2 or 3 successive relegations and 3 of The Premiership's Top 2- teams of 2020 were in the FOURTH TIER in the last 25 years.
Baseball is only 6 months (Apri/October). THERE YOU ARE :)
ps: In the old days Scotland used to bring 80,000 to the Away game in London but Covid will seriously restrict the crowd maximum permitted tonight but still , despote being told NOT to come there will be 20,000+ Scots in London for the game :) They used to take over London when they played an Annual match up to 20 years ago :)
4:06 the way we think about is that some teams are the best and are usually champions like real madrid from spain man city and liverpool from england bayern Munich from Germany some teams wich are good enough to stay most of the years in the first division like levante or Villarreal in spain (sorry I dont know more examples) and teams that go from first to second division
If 2 teams have the same points at the end of season. Normally its
1. Goal difference (goal scored - goal admitted) if thats the same Normally
(2. Points Head to Head ->)
3. Most goal scored If that also the same ->
4. Most wins.
2 Points head to head normally in World Cups, European Cups, (Normally only used in Country vs Country Leagues).
Basicly when teams only meat once.
In national local league it actually ignored for the most part.
Euro 2020 was suspended and its play this year.
Euro is a National Teams tournament (France vs Germany)
Champions League its Club (Madrid vs Manchester)
In between the various national seasons, the national cups, and the continental competitions for clubs, every national federation plays international matches against other national federations. This is what the Euros and the World Cup are all about: every national federation picks its best 23 players and plays against other federations, so you have, i.e., Italy against Germany. The players of Team Italy do not necessarily play for Italian clubs (and sometimes not even in a top national league, although this is rare), and the players of Team Germany do not necessarily play for German clubs.
The Euros are open for a selected number of federations, which used to be 16 (but now are 24 for Euro 2020 - which was supposed to be played in that year). The 16 (or 24) teams playing the Euros are selected via - you guessed it! - a tournament for national federations: the 55 European (UEFA) federations play in a cup tournament, divided into groups, and the top two or three teams winning their group are admitted to the Euros.
The same goes for the World Cup, but in this case, it's all world federations battling for the 36 spots in the final tournament.
The Euros and the World Cup are played every 4 years, much like the Olympics, and are scheduled so any of these two major international tournaments is played every 2 years. So we've had a World Cup in year 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, and the next one is in 2022; and we've had a Euro Cup in year 2000, 2004, 2008, 2020 (which is being played now due to the pandemic), and the next one will be in 2024.
1) If at the end of the season two teams have the same amount of points the position is defined by the "goal difference" (the goals they made to all of the other teams - the goals they received from the other teams = goal difference) the team with a better goal difference gets a better position. Goal difference might define the champion on a league.
2) No, the last 3 teams "goes down" because they don't deserve to continue on first division and the 3 top teams of second division "goes up" because they've earned the promotion and this is important because this happens at all levels, from the top to the bottom, there is allways a chance to go up to the next level which encourage the teams from the lower divisions to perform as best as they can and there is allways a chance to go down which also encourage all teams to perform as best as they can. It is assumed that the 3 first positions on a lower division are at least better than the last 3 of the next level, they deserve to go up!, so yes you get the logic behind it right.
3) There are 2 European competitions: The Champions League played every year by the winning teams from each particular league of each country and the Eurocup played every 4 years by the national selection or national team of each country and that is what is going on righ now, the Euro 2021
In the unusual case of equal points at the end of season they will use either head to head results or goal difference depending on country
1. Points being eq2ual, other factors come into the equation to rank teams: Goals scored vs goals against. In South Africa the exception is on winning the league, you can't win it on additional factors, so you have to play it out if points are the same. The other factors only help in Ranking.
2. In SA, last team up gets summarily relegated and the 1st team down gets promoted. 2nd and last team up plays play off against 2nd and 3rd team down. who ever gets most points is promoted. I guess this in a way mitigates against the issue of up teams being better anyways.
3. In South Africa, out experience is the new promotions tend to do well, it gets better with the injected amount in upper leagues. Also, lower leagues are constantly tested against upper leagues, for some reason lower leagues tend to do well enough and sometimes winning the cups. These teams tend to eventually go to the upper league.
2:53 yeah it is possible to have two teams with the same amount of points... in that kind of situation they usually calculate the total number of goals scored by both teams and the total number of goals both teams conceded and they take the difference into account and the team with higher difference wins
In case teams finish with the same points, there's a sequence of tie breaking statistics. The 1st is usually the results between those teams, then goals scored, goal difference, etc.
When two teams finish the league on the same number of points the winner is decided by something we call “goal difference”.
Goal difference is a very simple equation:
Total Goals Scored - Total Goals Conceded
The team with the higher goal difference goes top.
@SoGal I think you should watch the video called a clueless American's Guide to Euro 2020, its posted a week ago and is pretty in depth about the Euro 2020 in general terms.
The Euro 2020 finals going on now is a national not club tournament. So it's played between the best national teams in Europe. There is a qualifying tournament where teams are seeded and then drawn into groups. Each team plays each other home and away, with the winners and runners up of these groups qualifing for the finals tournament. The qualifying games take place over an 18 month period, and the finals take place once every 4 years.
If your level on points at the end of the season you it comes down to Goal difference which is the amount of goals you concede minus the goals scored. There are other factors too
I think a good way to compare the amount and feeling for a team is if you think of a highschool team.
Every town has one and bigger ones multiple with plenty of regional pride associated with it.
The lower leagues at some point (4th highest league in germany) branch in a way that they are split on location and multiple leagues are on the same tier.
Now if a Highschool team in america would win its division it then has to go to regionals and so forth until they may be state champion. In football instead of going to the regional playoffs, they would be promoted to the regional league, where they then play the year after that. If they win their league then they will reach a league that spans even a bigger area until they reach a league that is nationwide where the branching stops.
The crossover between amateurs and professionals is more fluid in european football, even at the "amateur" level there are players hired for just normal wages (not millions) in small towns.
The leagues are also in this way that the lower it is the less money the player makes until the lowest leagues are considered amateur in an american way, where players aren't payed (eventhough others on the team may be payed), for those its recreational, playing competitive football with your friends defending the honor of your club, like playing for your highschool eventhough you graduated years ago.
The FA cup is the oldest cup competition in the World, it was first played in the 1871-72 season. Most clubs in the UK were started from pubs (Bars). And the first woman’s team were Railway workers (Preston AFC) source BBC Sports.
In the UK we have the following leagues in order:
Premier
Division One
Division Two
Division Three
Then there are other leagues but these are at County (State) level.
All cups are played pretty much simultaneously, and in other continents it is the same thing: national by points, national by elimination, continent-wide by elimination. The thing is that the continental cup is played by teams that have qualified in the national cups (either by placing as the best in the national by points - each country sends a different number of teams, depending on the size of the country and the number of teams, and the N best go the the continental cup - or the national elimination tournament - the top four go, for example). If a team qualifies in both the by point and elimination round competitions, it takes up one spot and another team of the same country advances and gets the "second" spot.
Teams finishing in a league on the same points total are ordered by goal difference (goals scored - goals conceded)
The video is referring to how professional leagues work for european clubs (ie: MLS etc) is held every year
The Euro 2020 tournement is a national team tournement (postponed by a year due to the pandemic) is held every 4 years,
2 years before and after each World Cup
USA, Canada, Mexico etc would be North American equivalent teams
On the amount of teams in European football, lemme give you an example: Portugal.
A bit over 10 million people in a country the size of Maine, with one of the best national teams in the world, the structure of Portuguese football is as follows:
1. Primeira Liga (i.e., Premier League) - 18 teams
2. Segunda Liga (i.e., Second League) - 18 teams; may include B sides of some premier league clubs
(next season there will also be a third league, but let's keep this as was until this season that just ended)
3. Campeonato de Portugal (i.e., Portugal Championship) - 96 teams, divided into 8 12-team series; there's a final round, divided in two series (north and south), to determine promotions and who'll be in the final for league champion; may include B sides of the clubs in top leagues
4. District championships - 20 distinct leagues, organized on a district/region level with local teams. Depending on the number of teams competing in each, and on local specificities (especially in the Azores, where competitions at the bottom tend to be island-specific), some will only have a first division, some will go down to a 4th division (in Lisbon and Oporto, naturally - more people, more teams). Overall, the number of teams competing in these is typically over 700, although it varies from year to year. B sides also compete here.
Then there's the cup, of course, and specific competitions for young players, district and regional cups, women's football, the whole shebang. It is big.
And I'm not a fan.
In Germany leagues 1-3 are considered to be professional. They also include teams from all of Germany. Starting with league 4 it gets semi-professional and also regional. There are 2 "league 4" in Germany one North and one South and teams get placed according to where they're from. It's quite difficult to progress from league 4 to league 3 and become truly professional. Further down it gets even more fractured and I think bottom line is the state league, one for each of Germany's 16 states.
In order to get into the german cup tournament as a small lower league team, you usually have to win your state cup in the preceding season. All major professional teams of leagues 1 and 2 are obliged to participate.
And yeah, in the first round you always get some really cool David vs Goliath matches and every so often the underdog team of amateurs actually manages to beat a professional team and kick them out. It's national news whenever that happenes! 😅
I don't think an amateur team has ever actually won the cup in the end though...
2:56 - So Criteria here to get a winner is points then if tied there you move on to goal differential/Head to Head clashes/goals scored
National teams and continental national teams competition: Yeah, that's also a thing. Some times of the year, all national championships stops for a round or two so the national teams convene and play a round of matches of the continent tournaments. Sometimes everything stops and there is a honest to goodness CUP, like the World Cup, but for the continent.
Leagues will have winter breaks of varying length.
Leagues in a colder climate will usually have longer winter breaks.
A quick check suggests the breaks are from 2-6+ weeks, so that kinda shortens the seasons a bit.
When the top two teams are tied in points the winner is decided by goal difference which is the goals scored minus the goals against. In futbol scoring many goals matters as much as winning
There are many futbol tournaments around the world and some happens at the same time. Every continent has a tournament which has all their national teams play one another to define a winner. Currently we have two tournaments happening, The Euros 2020(Europe which was postponed cause of COVID ) and The Copa America (South America). There’s a Confederations Cup that happens the year before the World Cup (every 4 years) which puts the winner of each continental tournament against one another and it is held in the nation hosting the World Cup. It’s small compared to other tournaments, normally consisting of 8 teams. And then the grandest tournament in the world is the World Cup. It is an international tournament and it is truly a spectacle to watch. It comes around every 4 years, so the next one will be in Qatar 2022. Tournament consists of 32 teams divided into 8 groups. Then it lead to round of sixteen-quarterfinals-semi-final. In America they like to have multiple matches to define a winner but that isn’t the case in futbol. Here the winners are decided after one game.
You should check out some World Cup match highlights to have you prepared for next year such as
Portugal v Spain 2018
Argentina v France 2018
Uruguay vs Netherlands 2010
Mexico v Brazil 2014
Germany v Uruguay 2010
Brazil v Germany 2014
France v Croatia 2018
Italy v France 2006
Belgium v Japan 2018
Spain v Netherlands 2010, 2014
There is a tiebreaker system. Usually, it's goal differential, head to head, away goals, then a complex "fair play" system based on the number of yellow cards and red cards received.
Euro 2020 is a competition for National Teams (teams formed by the best players born in every country face each other) and it's held every 4 years.
The Champions League is a CLUB competition. The best CLUB teams of every country face each other. It's held EVERY year.
If two teams eventually finish in the first place with the same points, usually (but not always) the winner will be the one who has better performance in the games between the two in that tournament (just that league, not historically or adding other hipothetically games for the Super Cup, the National Cup, or the League Cup, between both teams in that same season). If they keep tied, the older or classic form of chosing, was goals scored as away team in both games between them two, for example a team who has lost 3 to 1 away, but has won their home game against the other one by 2 to 0, wins. If this still doesn't work, they use the overall (in that league tournament) difference in goals, and if they keep tied, the team who has scored more, wins. This method of choice is used as primary method in some countries, not the direct confrontations between tied teams, that by the way sometimes are more than only two, and in these cases, it's created a sort of mini-league of games between the tied teams in that season league.
In some countries relegation system is slightly more complex. For example, two two teams from 2nd division replace two worst from the 1st division (let's say 17th and 18th) but 3rd and 4th teams from second division play relegation matches against 15th and 16th from the 1st division. Teams from lower division often win so it shows that this system is overall a fair one.
In the event that two teams are tied on points, goal difference is taken into account. A team's goal difference is, as the name would suggest, all the goals scored by a team minus all the goals conceded by a team. There are ways to determine a tie break beyond this point but usually it does not come to that
Euro 2020 was scheduled for last year but covid. Its a tournament between 24 European countries that have qualified. Each continent has their own. Asia Cup, euros, gold Cup (na and ca), copa america (sa), African Cup of nations and one of Oceania i don't know the name of. These are generally held every 4 years. You then have the World Cup which is the biggest single sport event in the world where 32 qualified nations from all continents play in the same, group of 4, format before the knock out stages happen over 1 leg. The next one of these is next year in winter for the first time due to be held in qatar, then probably in america, Canada and mexico in the june/july of 2026.
When a team finishes on the same points then it all depends on which teams scored the most goals. If somehow thats the same then i believe there is a playoff but its usually unlikely :)
Rather than taking into account only the"goals scored", the "goal average" is used, which is the difference between the goals scored and those received....
If they are still tied, then the "direct match" results are taken into account...
@@vms77 Not an average, like you initially said, but a difference like you stated second. For clarification purposes
Don't know if it has changed, but when I used to play at school, the the table was determined by number of points, goal differential (i.e. who has scored more goals in favour, and least against), and the final criteria was 1 v 1 record (who won their last encounter.)
@@sonofeast11 In Spain its named this way: "golaverage" (all together in a same word)...
So the competition playing at the moment is the International version of the club league. All the best players from the top league, are chosen to represent the relevant country they come from. Just like the World Cup but a European version instead. You also have it in the States this is called the Americas Cup.
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