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Why Atlético Madrid has to play in the Europa league and not in the Champions league the next year if they were in the top 3 past year in la liga?
In which European competition a team starts to play is determined by the results of the team in the previous season of their domestic league. Which means, as in the season 2016-17 Atlético became ...
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What is the most number of times two teams met in a season?
There have been 7 El Clásicos played between Real Madrid and Barcelona during the 2010/11 season in 4 different tournaments:
2010/11 La Liga:
29.Nov.2010 BAR 5 - 0 RMA
16.Apr.2011 RMA 1 - 1 BAR
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Was Neymars transfer completely void even after committing to play until 2021?
This is all completely valid. As part of Neymar's contact, both Neymar and Barcelona agreed to the value of the release clause - note that under Spanish law, all employees have a release clause in ...
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Spanish Football Calendar
As you can see from La Liga website, there are no cup matches in March. And generally, cup matches never clash with La Liga matches, and the only instance when La Liga games are rescheduled due to ...
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Highest goal-difference for non-title winning side in top 5 European leagues?
In the 2011-12 season of La Liga, Real Madrid set a record high goal difference of 89 goals on their way to the title. Barcelona finished runners-up and had an impressive goal difference of 85.
I ...
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
International match: Australia hold the record for the most goals in an international match for a victory over American Samoa (11th April 2001) in Oceanian 2002 World Cup qualifiers. Australia 31 vs ...
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Foreign player rule in La Liga
La Liga
La Liga regulations permit up to three "foreign" players per team.
"Foreign" refers to a player from outside the European Union. Due to a legal ruling over a handball player in Germany, ...
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Foreign player rule in La Liga
In Spanish La Liga there's a rule ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ which states that each club can have up to 3 non-EU players (players from African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States are excluded from that rule).
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
I find this match that seems the world record with 149 goals during a single match.
The results is caused by a protest on a refereeing decisions.
All the 149 were caused by deliberately own goals.
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Which football matches had the highest combined number of goals?
There is also a relevant case: Federated States of Micronesia national under-23 football team.
Their performance was the worst recorded in international football as they lost all three games, ...
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Longest distance to goal for top 5 European league?
German Bundesliga: Moritz Stoppelkamp for SC Paderborn against Hannover 96 in 2014/15 season from 83 meters. Video, source: bundesliga.com - German.
Italian Serie A: Enzo Ferrari for Palermo against ...
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Where will FC Barcelona play if Catalonia gets independence?
Might be a coincidence, or maybe you read something about it today(most likely i guess)
But last night Spanish football president, Javier Tebas announced that Catalan teams would not be able to ...
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Size of football pitches in England and European countries
I'm not sure it's that true that EPL grounds are that much smaller than European grounds, at least for the "Big Six" (and Wembley):
Stadium
Club
Length (m)
Width (m)
Anfield
Liverpool
101
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Size of football pitches in England and European countries
For non international matches, the pitch size can vary quiet a bit. The pitch has to be a rectangle whose width can be anywhere from 45 to 90 meters, while the length can be anywhere from 90 to 120 ...
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Size of football pitches in England and European countries
The pitch most definitely varies in size, but not terribly much. See this page from the BBC for example. England's rules are very wide - the pitch must be between 90m and 120m long, and between 50m ...
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In La Liga or the Premier League, can you contest a yellow card after the game and take it off?
At least in the Premier League, it's not possible. Back in 2000, a referee directly asked the FA to rescind a yellow card. He received no answer. This article might give a little more insight:
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Where can I get data for individual player statistics in European football?
I found two really nice links:
The WhoScore gives you a lot of information. You just need to click
the league you want to observe.
Roto Wire is like WhoScore but with more advanced stats (you need to ...
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Highest goal-difference for non-title winning side in top 5 European leagues?
In the Bundesliga the highest goal difference without the title goes to Bayern Munich as well. They scored a goal difference of +55 goals in the Bundesliga season 2011/12 beating the old record of +51 ...
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Record for player hitting the woodwork most number of times in a season in top European leagues?
La Liga:
In 2017/18 season, Lionel Messi hit the woodwork 18 times, which according to Opta, is the most in La Liga season since 2003/2004.
Premier League:
In 2011/12 season, Robin van Persie hit ...
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Dimensions of soccer pitch
The size of the picth is not evenly in every field. There are maximum and minimun size.
Law 1 told us about it:
Dimensions
The touchline must be longer than the goal-line.
Length (touchline):
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