League Formats & Structures
Domestic league formats and structures are a fundamental part of the club football landscape. The unique disruption of the covid pandemic has led to 60% (33 of the 54 European top division leagues) changing their format, structure and/or number of participating clubs between 2020 and 2022, underlining the importance of analysis in this area. The UEFA club benchmarking report (“European Club Footballing Landscape”) has been the only publication to track changes and trends across the last decade. Moreover the formation of the UEFA Intelligence Centre has allowed a profound deepening and broadening of analysis and insight on domestic leagues and cups.
Supporting Data
The Intelligence Centre League Structures data base combines data from public sources (OPTA, soccerway, transfermarkt, wikipedia etc), transforms and sanitises this data and combines with data collected direct from the annual SGS audit of each National association licensing system. The database links numerous data sets including:
Global league compositions
Previous and planned league changes
Domestic cup participation and formats
Global league timings
European league pyramids and promotion/relegation
Squad regulations European domestic football
Post regular season play-offs and play-outs
Example Questions We Can Answer
By combining our network of databases together with professional industry experience, the Intelligence Centre can provide answers to a range of strategic off-pitch football questions.
