Clubs by country and division across every competition
31 countries
The clubs of each country, split by division, with current position, goal difference and points. The lists are built from the same tables as the competitions themselves.
A country’s club list shows how its football pyramid is built: how many levels, how many teams on each, and how evenly they are spread. Where the pyramid is wide the lower levels split into groups, and the club count there runs well above the top division.
A country’s club count depends less on its size than on how many levels of the pyramid are covered and whether the lower divisions split into groups. Where they do the total rises quickly: a fourth tier can hold more clubs than the first three together.
The lists are built from the league tables rather than maintained separately, so a club appears where it plays this season and leaves its former division when it moves. Its history stays in the archive of that season where a final table exists for it.
A country’s club count is a rough but honest measure of how deep its football is organised. It says nothing about strength: a small country with four levels and a hundred teams is more densely organised than a large one with a single professional division. The lists below make that difference visible at a glance.
- Argentina1 divisions
·divisions - Austria2 divisions
·divisions - Belarus2 divisions
·divisions - Belgium1 divisions
·divisions - Brazil2 divisions
·divisions - Bulgaria1 divisions
·divisions - Czechia1 divisions
·divisions - Denmark1 divisions
·divisions - England4 divisions
·divisions - Finland2 divisions
·divisions - France2 divisions
·divisions - Germany3 divisions
·divisions - Greece1 divisions
·divisions - Hungary1 divisions
·divisions - Ireland1 divisions
·divisions - Israel1 divisions
·divisions - Italy5 divisions
·divisions - Japan1 divisions
·divisions - Kazakhstan2 divisions
·divisions - Netherlands2 divisions
·divisions - Norway2 divisions
·divisions - Poland1 divisions
·divisions - Portugal1 divisions
·divisions - Romania1 divisions
·divisions - Russia7 divisions
·divisions - Scotland4 divisions
·divisions - Spain2 divisions
·divisions - Sweden2 divisions
·divisions - Switzerland2 divisions
·divisions - Turkey2 divisions
·divisions - Ukraine3 divisions
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What a club list shows
A division’s club list is its make-up for the current season rather than a standing register. Clubs are promoted and relegated, so the same club appears in different lists in different years. The position beside a name shows where it stands now, and the goal difference shows how firm that standing is.
The lower the level, the more clubs there are and the faster the make-up changes: a top flight turns over two or three clubs a season, a fourth tier considerably more. Lists for the lower levels therefore date faster, and it is there that the difference between seasons shows most.
Club lists are useful when a team’s division is not known in advance. Names recur across countries and levels — Dynamo, Arsenal, Sparta appear in several competitions at once — so clubs sharing a name carry their city in brackets. From the list it is one step into the division table, where the same club is seen alongside its opponents.
Reserve sides — Zenit-2, Roma U23 and the like — sit in the lists alongside first teams, because they play in the same divisions and take the same points. In most leagues they cannot be promoted, and that is the only way their standing differs. Where a reserve side finishes high, the place below it is the one that carries the promotion.
Common questions
Where do the club lists come from?
From the same tables as the competitions themselves. A club appears in the list if it is playing in that division this season.
Why is there a position but no history?
The unit here is the division rather than the club: current position, goal difference and points are shown. The club is seen in more detail in its own league table.
What happens when a club changes division?
It appears in the list of the division it plays in now. The previous season stays in the archive where a final table exists for it.
Why do some countries carry many more clubs?
It depends how many levels of the pyramid are covered and whether the lower divisions split into groups. Where they do, the total club count rises quickly.