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Using top division average attendances (from European Football Statistics website for 2015-16 / 2015 season) and 1st July 2015 population estimates (from Wikipedia list) the average attendance in each league at each top division game expressed as a percentage of population is as follows... 0.853% - ...

If this is correct, then that would be : CL Title holder - 1 team EL Title holder - 1 team Italy / Spain / England / Germany - 4 teams each = Total of 16 teams France / Portugal - 2 teams each = Total of 4 teams Russia / Belgium / Ukraine / Netherlands - 1 team each = Total of 4 teams That would ma...

I'm correct that analysing the photos on p21 these are the changes, using the current country ranking: Spain, England, Germany current - 3 groupstage, 1 runners-up qualifying future - 4 groupstage = increased Italy currently - 2 groupstage, 1 runners-up qualifying future - 4 groupstage = increased F...

Clubs from Gibraltar have done well since they joined UEFA... In their first season Lincoln managed a draw against Torshavn, and Europa kept things respectable against Vaduz. Last season Lincoln drew with and beat Santa Coloma then kept things respectable against Midtyjlland - although Europa got ha...

It's usual practice in football nowadays to give at least 2 clear days between games so I do not see why that can't be the case for U19 internationals. They could play Wednesday, Saturday, Tuesday without any problem and it wouldn't even affect their ability to play for their clubs on the weekends. ...

We won it last year, actually, and qualified to the Four Nations (which I suppose is a sort of rugby league equivalent of the Confederations Cup). Indeed our rugby league national team is about our only national team - certainly among fieldsports - who are much good!! Football haven't qualified sinc...

I have previously been in favour of a 'UEFA Shield' type of competition, which would be a knockout competition for clubs eliminated in the qualifying stages of CL & EL. However this idea sounds rather different and I don't really understand how either option would work... I would be very surpris...

MSC has identified the main Scottish examples since the 1940s and 1950s in his post above. Rangers were liquidated in 2012 but a 'NewCo' was performed and they restarted with a new company. Airdrieonians were liquidated in 2002 but after attempts to establish a new Airdrie United failed, they bought...

It's Greenock Morton vs St. Mirren tonight - the so-called Renfrewshire derby. I don't understand why it gets called that since Greenock is in Inverclyde , but anyway, probably some historical thing. The two teams might not be the best in footballing terms, but there's always a feistiness to the fi...

I believe a few leagues also use "Numbers of Wins" at some point in the various levels of tie-breakers. How does Head-to-Head work in leagues where the clubs do not play 2 or 4 times, such as 12 team leagues playing 33 games, or leagues which split like Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Cyprus or...

I prefer GD > GF > head-to-head, then playoff.

spoonman wrote:UEFA isn't responsible for the fact that Gibraltar are not recognised by FIFA.

UEFA should be looking after all 54 members and their interests, though.

Plus UEFA devised the qualifying format, the 'Week of Football' arrangements and the centralised friendlies, not FIFA.

UEFA should have required the Group H/I countries to play Gibraltar once. They have required them to play France twice and Russia twice, after all. How are they going to improve if they can only properly play 2yrs out of every 4? They will be able to get the odd friendly here and there, and enter th...

How will they decide which team plays Russia if there are two groups of 5? If both groups have the same schedule it is not so hard to arrange it so that all teams play Russia once and Gibraltar once This is what they should have done - although admittedly common sense would have meant no Ukraine-Ru...

In European football terms the Germans have full continuity, as does Russia (for CIS and USSR), Serbia (for Serbia & Montenegro and Yugoslavia) and the Czech Republic (for Czeckoslovakia). East Germany and Saarland have both ceased to exist. Of course Saarland & West Germany met in WC 1954 q...