THE STRONGEST NATIONAL LEAGUE IN THE WORLD 2021 by IFFHS



BRAZIL’S SERIE A IN HISTORY !

Brazilian’s SERIE A is the World’s Best National League in the World ! For the first time in the IFFHS History (since 1991), another continental league than European (Spain 13 Awards, Italy 11, England 5 and Germany 1) wins this World ranking.

England’s PREMIER LEAGUE took the second place (the fourth time in the last 5 years) and the SERIE A of Italy (winner in 2020) lost two places to take place 3. Spain’s PRIMERA DIVISION took again rank 4 like last year before LIGUE 1 of France and Portugal’s PRIMEIRA LIGA (place 6 for the third consecutive year). The EREDIVISIE of Netherlands  (18 in 2020) made a jump to rank 7 before Germany’s BUNDESLIGA, fifth in 2020 ! Argentina’s PRIMERA DIVISION took place 9 for the third consecutive year and the DIVISION PROFESIONAL of Paraguay completed the WORLD’S TOP 10.

 

 

STATISTICS THE STRONGEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD 2021 by IFFHS

 

Top 20: UEFA 14 leagues , CONMEBOL 5, CAF 1 

    

Top 50: UEFA 29 leagues , CONMEBOL 8, CAF 7, AFC 4, CONCACAF 2





IFFHS STRONGEST NATIONAL LEAGUE IN THE WORLD 2021 


Top 80 (1st January 2021 – 31st December 2021)

 

Place

2020

Points

1

3

BRAZIL

CONMEBOL

1406

2

2

ENGLAND

UEFA

1204

3

1

ITALY

UEFA

1060,5

4

4

SPAIN

UEFA

1028

5

7

FRANCE

UEFA

937

6

6

PORTUGAL

UEFA

903

7

18

NETHERLANDS

UEFA

901

8

5

GERMANY

UEFA

880

9

9

ARGENTINA

CONMEBOL

770,5

10

8

PARAGUAY

CONMEBOL

737

11

14

COLOMBIA

CONMEBOL

723,5

12

19

CROATIA

UEFA

707,5

13

16

SERBIA

UEFA

691

14

15

EGYPT

CAF

686,5

15

22

CZECH REPUBLIC 

UEFA

677,5

16

17

AUSTRIA

UEFA

668,5

17

26

TURKEY

UEFA

660,5

18

10

ECUADOR

CONMEBOL

630,5

19

23

BELGIUM

UEFA

614

20

12

GREECE

UEFA

610,5

21

11

SCOTLAND

UEFA

593,5

22

20

SOUTH KOREA 

AFC

577,5

23

13

ISRAEL

UEFA

576

24

24

DENMARK

UEFA

568,5

25

25

ROUMANIA

UEFA

568

26

30

URUGUAY

CONMEBOL

530

27

21

UKRAINE

UEFA

525,5

28

29

MEXICO

CONCACAF

521,5

29

76

ALGERIA

CAF

520

30

33

MAROC

CAF

506

31

57

SOUTH AFRICA

CAF

489

32

28

CYPRUS

UEFA

482,5

33

35

SWITZERLAND

UEFA

470

34

38

JAPAN

AFC

449

35

66

MOLDOVA

UEFA

428

36

27

RUSSIA

UEFA

418

37

79

ANGOLA

CAF

416,5

38

36

TUNISIA

CAF

409

39

58

NORTHERN IRELAND 

UEFA

405

40

51

IRAN

AFC

404

41

39

POLAND

UEFA

401

42

49

SWEDEN

UEFA

391,5

43

44

BOLIVIA

CONMEBOL

387

44

77

NIGERIA

CAF

377

45

41

COSTA RICA

CONCACAF

370,5

46

34

NORWAY

UEFA

367

47

45

BULGARIA

UEFA

365,5

48

30

SAUDI ARABIA

AFC

362

49

64

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND

UEFA

350,5

50

70

VENEZUELA

CONMEBOL

350

51

67

GUATEMALA

CONCACAF

347,5

52

65

ZAMBIA

CAF

344,5

53

37

HUNGARY

UEFA

340,5

54

60

CONGO D R

CAF

339

55

32

CHILE

CONMEBOL

332

56

42

ALBANIA

UEFA

331,5

57

54

ESTONIA

UEFA

331

57

61

FINLAND

UEFA

331

59

47

SLOVENIA

UEFA

330,5

60

74

AZERBAIJAN

UEFA

324

61

68

LITHUANIA

UEFA

323,5

62

71

TANZANIA

CAF

322

63

56

HONDURAS

CONCACAF

321,5

64

52

LATVIA

UEFA

316

65

46

PERU

CONMEBOL

311

66

48

UZBEKISTAN

AFC

309,5

67

62

U S A

CONCACAF

306,5

68

59

SLOVAKIA

UEFA

306

69

71

ARMENIA

UEFA

304,5

70

80

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

UEFA

298,5

71

40

NICARAGUA

CONCACAF

292

72

75

GEORGIA

UEFA

291,5

73

53

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 

AFC

287

74

69

SUDAN

CAF

286

75

77

KOSOVO

UEFA

285

76

73

FAROE ISLANDS

UEFA

274,5

77

55

QATAR

AFC

252

78

50

BELARUS

UEFA

251

79

63

NORTH MACEDONIA

UEFA

248,5

80

82

THAILAND

AFC

202,75