The 332nd edition of the CIES Weekly Post Observatory left the Colombian League very well in its latest study. The observatory compared 72 leagues in the first division around the world and in terms of the percentage of matches, in which a team won by at least three goals, the lowest proportion of unequal matches was recorded in the first category A in Colombia. It’s not a joke, Colombian football finished on this list with the first place. The percentage that gave this position to the League was 4%.
For the UEFA member associations surveyed, the percentages vary between 8.8% in the Albanian Superliga and 31.2% in Moldova. More than a fifth of the matches 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 much higher percentages 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 league in the top five in Europe in which the proportion of unequal matches was much lower than the world average. The opposite is true for French Ligue 1 (15.0%), English Premier League (17.2%) and Italian Serie A (17.7%). The Arab League of the United Arab Emirates (22.2%) and the League of Stars of Qatar (21.7%) also stand out as particularly unequal competitions.