The 332nd edition of the Observatorio Weekly Post CIES left the Colombian League very well in its latest study. The observatory compared 72 first division competitions around the world and from the perspective of the percentage of matches, in which a team won with at least three goals, the lowest proportion of uneven matches was recorded in Colombia’s first Category A. It’s no kidding, Colombian football finished first in this list. The percentage that gave this position to the League was 4%.
For the UEFA associations surveyed, the percentages vary between 8.8% in the Albanian Super League and 31.2% in Moldova. More than a fifth of the games in the Austrian Bundesliga (23.5%) and the German Bundesliga (20.9%) ended with a difference of at least three goals between the opposing teams. These are percentages that are much higher than the average measured at the level of the 72 competitions included in the analysis (14.5%).
The Spanish league (11.4%) is the only competition in the top five in Europe where the share of uneven matches was much lower than the world average. The opposite is true for the French Ligue 1 (15.0%), the English Premier League (17.2%) and the Italian Serie A (17.7%). The Arabian Gulf League of the United Arab Emirates (22.2%) and the Stars League of Qatar (21.7%) also stand out as particularly uneven leagues.