Football statistics: league tables from 31 countries across 62 divisions

Football statistics by division and level

Home advantage shows most in Austria, where the home side wins 67% of the time. The largest competition listed is Argentina with 30 clubs.

Each country is broken out by division: the top flight, the second tier, the third and, where one exists, the fourth. Divisions within a country link to each other, so it is possible to work down from the top flight to the lower leagues without leaving the same table logic.

Overall, home and away: three cuts of one table

Three cuts of one table answer different questions. The overall table says who has taken most across the season. The home table shows who uses their ground, the away table who can take points on the road. A club sitting mid-table overall can be first at home and last away, and the position alone will never show it.

Goal difference is in the table for a reason beyond tie-breaking: over a full season it is steadier than recent results. A side with a positive difference and a modest position usually climbs; one with a negative difference and a high position usually falls back.

Head-to-head records come from the same results grid the home and away tables are computed from, so a score between two clubs and the positions of both are always consistent with each other. They are the same matches, arranged differently.

How deep the coverage runs

Depth of coverage differs by country and it shows immediately: one professional division in some places, four levels with groups inside the lower ones elsewhere. That difference says more about how football is organised in a country than the strength of its best club, and it is only visible when every level sits in one place.

Archive: final tables from past seasons

Alongside the current seasons there is an archive of final tables from earlier years, by division and by zone. For Russia it reaches back through the 1990s and early 2000s, when the second and third tiers were split into territorial zones whose final tables are collected in few other places.

The archive is a layer of its own. A current table answers where a club stands now; a final table from a past season answers how it ended. The second is more useful for direction: one season describes a year, several in a row show where a competition is heading.

For divisions that split into territorial zones there are several final tables per season — one per zone, each with its own winner. Those tables are collected together almost nowhere else, and they are what makes the archive useful beyond the top flights.

Clubs, and one set of columns

The club lists work the same way: a team appears in the division it currently plays in and moves with promotion or relegation. Names recur across countries, so clubs sharing one carry their city in brackets — Arsenal (London) and Arsenal (Tula) are different clubs in different competitions.

Taken together this gives the same set of columns for a top flight and a fourth tier, for the current season and for one twenty years old. That uniformity is what makes comparison possible — not between individual results, but between competitions, and between a competition and its own past.