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If your like me you love a random stat about football and i belive their should be a thread on this. so if anyone has any decent stats then please post it, it can be about any team, player, tournement etc. i will post some of my own now, i am sorry if i get any wrong please correct me if this happens, the same as anyone who post's on here. Hopefully this can be a fun and enjoyable thread for all.


World Cup Stats.
  • No foreign manager has won the World Cup only managers from the country they are managing. (preying this changes)
  • Only 8% of matches played in the World Cup have ended in 0-0 since it started.
  • Slovenia are the only team in this years World Cup making their 1st appearence.
  • Brazil are the only club to win the World Cup outside their Continent.
Premiership Stats.​
  • Yossi Benayoun is the only player to score a hat-rick in the Premierleague, ChampionsLeague and FA Cup.​
  • Andy Cole is the quickest player to reach 50 premierleague goals in a staggering 65games.​
  • Liverpool scored 22 goals in their first seven gamesthis season - their previous best Premier League start was 16 goals in both 1996/97 and 1994/95.​
  • France have had the most foreign players to play in the Premiership a massive 61 ahead of 2nd place Netherlands with 141 players.​
  • Chelsea have had the most foreign players play for the club since the Premiership started with 93 players from abroad with Liverpool and Man City in joint 2nd with 79. The team with the least who still apply their trade in the Premiership are Wolves with only 14 foreign based players to play for the club while they have been in the top league.​
  • Thier has been a totel of 1,198 foreign based players to play in the Premierleague and counting.​
  • Hardman Duncan Ferguson scored 51.47% off his goals with his head. The highest player that is still playing in the Premierleague is obviously Tim Cahill with 50% off headers scored is lying in 2nd.​
  • Richard Dunne has clocked up the joint amount of red cards in the league with 8 along with Duncan Ferguson and Patrick Vieira.​
  • Their has been 1,060 red cards in the Premierleague divided up between 651 players.​
  • Lee Bowyer holds the current record for yellow cards in the league with 91 in his long and current carrear, currently 2 ahead of 2nd in the list Robbie Savage.​
  • Their has been a staggerling 19,628 yellow cards dished out since the league was formed shared out by 1,961 players.​
  • Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool used the most amount of players this season with 30, Aston Villa used the least with only 21 different players used.​
  • David James has played the most PL games with 573 matches played his currently ahead of Ryan Giggs (548), Garry Speed(535), Sol Campbell(496) and Emile Heskey(469).​
Again these are just a few to get the ball rolling, this thread could be ongoing as stats come out every time a ball is kicked. please add any you know or can find cheers.​
 
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Argentina have won the world cup in a different continent. Mexico 86 North America
 
italy's world cup winning team (2006) was made from a squad which had no players based outside Italy

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Andrew Innocull is the only known professional footballer to have all five vowels in his name, in the correct order, used only once
 
If half of France's players chose to represent the other countries they qualified for, African football (at international level) would be awesome and Senegal would probably be favourites for the World Cup, lol.
 
Fat ronnie has never won a champions league, despite playing for 5 previous winners
R madrid
AC Milan
Inter
Barca
PSV
 
mattdamon1990 said:
Fat ronnie has never won a champions league, despite playing for 5 previous winners
R madrid
AC Milan
Inter
Barca
PSV
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Never knew that -- that would make a good pub quiz question.

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Alberto Stefano of Real Madrid and Paolo Maldini of AC Milan have both won the European Champions League (in its various guises) on 5 occassions.
 
Notts forest have won twice as many european cups, as they have top division titles
 
Ferenc Puskas scored 84 international goals in 85 games -- now that's some goals to games ratio :)

Though Poul Nielsen's 52 goals in 38 games for Denmark, and Gerd Muller's 68 goals in 62 games is just crazy!

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Tottenham Hotspur -- first British club to win a major European trophy :)

Tottenham and Manchester United -- the only two clubs to have won a trophy in the last SIX consecutive decades.
 
  • Málaga and Almería are the only teams that failed to win any of their games played on a Saturday in La Liga 2009/10
  • 75% - Manuel Pellegrini was sacked despite recording a higher win ratio (all comps.) than any other Real Madrid manager in history.
  • 17% - Valencia won just 17% of their Liga matches without David Villa in 2009/10 and won 63% of their games with him
  • Pele committed more fouls than any other player (23) at the 1970 World Cup
  • Jose Mourinho has lost just one league game at home in his managerial career. - his only league defeat at home was against Portuguese side Beira Mar (2-3 on 23/02/2002).
  • Lionel Messi scored 34 goals this term in la Liga, no player had reached that tally since Ronaldo in 96/97
  • 1995/96 - the last season where Atlético Madrid won silverware and Real Madrid didn't
 
  • Aberdeen were the first team in Britain to have a dug out.
  • Glasgow Celtic were the first British team to win the European Cup, Liverpool were the third
  • Aberdeen Dundee, and Glasgow, are the only cities in Scotland to have won the Scotish Premier Title.
  • Man Utd are the most well supported club in Britain,
  • Man Utd under Alex Ferguson have only won the League title when Eric Cantona, or Roy Keane was in the squad, that was fact written before they won the title with Fletcher,
  • Alex Ferguson is the only manager in Britain to have won the Scottish and English titles,
  • Feyenoord were the first North European team outside Britain to win a European Cup,
  • Brazil, have won the most World Cups, and first took this award, of most wins, in 1970,
  • No English manager has won England's League Title since, Howard Wilkinson, and before him, Howard Kendal, the last non-Howard Englishman was in the early 1980s.
  • The USA is the second most populous country to have been in the world cup
  • The last English team to win a Premiership trophy, from outside one of England's most famous cities, was Blackburn, and before that Nottingham,
  • Linfield are the biggest team, in Northern Ireland,
  • Barcelona, have won Catalan championshisp, before world war two, when Spanish football was not so united.
  • The Basque football team, played Wales in 2006, and have played many teams since starting in the late 20th Century, for unofficial internationals.
  • In 2006 Barry Town, have still won more Welsh League titles than anybody else.
  • A Frenchman founded the World Cup,
  • Burnley, Huddersfield Town, Portsmouth, Preston North End, Sheffield United, and Wolves are all teams who have won the English Top league, and played in the old Fourth Division,
  • Altrincham had 13 wins against League clubs when they were non League in 1945-1992,
  • Coventry went 26 Matches in their series with Aston Villa, 1937-88 without beating them
  • Upto 1992 Peter Shilton had in that era just overtook Tommy Hutchinson to go up to 968 caps, above the 854 of the other guy
  • Arthur Rowley scored 434 goals for West Brom, Fulham, Leicester, and Shrewsbury in 46-65
  • Jimmy McGrory holds the Scottish record at 410 goals for Celtic and Clydebank, 1922-38
  • Trevor Francis was the first Million pound British player bought by Nottingham Forest off Birmingham, Wille Grocves the first 100 pounds for Aston Villa off WBA in 1892,
  • Bayern Munich to 1992 with 20 Trophies were Germany's most sucessful teram, Juventus Italy's with 30, Marseille France's with 18, Ajax the Netherlands' with 34, Real Madrid Spain;'s with 41
  • Clyde has been relegated 10 times upto 1992, a record in the Scottish League to then
  • In 1992 Carslile were the most isolated football league team in Britain
  • Dundee and Dundee United had the closest ground only 200 yards apart
 
Kris said:
Wasn't that Celtic? I'm sure they always cream about something like that?
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Nope, Celtic were the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967 (they actually won all 5 competitions they entered that year), but Tottenham won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1963.
 
Carine said:
Nope, Celtic were the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967 (they actually won all 5 competitions they entered that year), but Tottenham won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1963.
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Ahh I see, The more you know eh. ^^)
 
Some England Stats.​
  • Owen Hargreaves currently holds the most appearences as a sub currently at 25​
  • Ugo Ehiogu has the most appearances as a substitute without ever starting a game standing at 4​
  • Steven Warnock holds the record for shortest England carrer standing at only 6 minutes.​
  • Tony Adams was the first player to make tournament appearances in three separate decades​
  • Peter Crouch holds the record for most goals scored in a calender year with 11 in 2006.​
  • Gary Neville holds the recored for most appearances for an outfield player without ever scoring at 85 caps without scoring.​
  • Englands last goal scorer at the old Wembley was a centre back Tony Adams and their first goal scorer at the new Wembley was also a centre back John Terry.​
  • When Rob Green got sent off against Ukraine in the World Cup qulifiers he was the first goalkeeper to get sent off for England.​
 
westham1995 said:
no English manager has ever won the Premier League...
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but the last top division title before it changed was by leeds manager howard wilkinson

there have only been 3 non british managers winning the premier league and none winning the old first division. they are wenger, mourinho and ancelotti

i lied bob kyle led sunderland to glory in 1912-13 and he was irish
 
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Carlo Ancelotti is the first italian to win the Premiership and 2nd Italian manger to win the FA Cup the first was another Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli in the year 2000.
 
celtics 1967 european cup (now champions league) winning squad all lived within a 30 mile radius of their home ground celtic park at the time.

and in 2002-2003 aek athens became the only unbeaten side not to win the champions league by getting 6 draws in the group stage

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in a match at the 1994 carribean cup barbados deliberately scored an own goal to go through. and because it sounds so silly here is the circumstances to prove it.

Grenada went into the match with a superior goal difference, meaning that Barbados were required to win by two goals to progress to the finals. The trouble was caused by an unusual rule which stated that in the event of a game going to sudden death extra time, the goal would count double, meaning that the winner would be awarded a two goal victory.

Barbados were leading 2-0 until the 83rd minute, when Grenada scored, making it 2-1. Approaching the dying moments, the Barbadians realized they had no chance of scoring past Grenada's mass defence, so they turned around and deliberately scored an own goal to tie the game, which would send it into extra time and give them another half hour to break down the defence. The Grenadians realized what was going on, and attempted to score an own goal as well, which would put Barbados back in front by one goal but would eliminate them from the competition.

However, the Barbados players started defending their opposition's goal to prevent them doing this, and during the game's last five minutes, the fans were treated to the incredible sight of Grenada trying to score on either goal. Barbados also defended both ends of the pitch, and held off Grenada for the final five minutes, sending the game into extra time. In extra time, Barbados notched the game-winner, and, according to the rules, was awarded a 4-2 victory, which put them through to the next round.

now wouldn't you just love to have watched the end of that game.
 
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