In the previous update , we look on the basis of worldwide viewership and the overall worth of the football clubs to demarcate leagues.
Now we will look into the quality of player's aspect to rank the leagues.
The quality of a player is of course subjective, but over the course of three different surveys, the Premier League trails behind its rivals.
It fares well in the The Guardian’s list of the best 100 players in the world from last year, contributing 29 players compared to 26 from La Liga, 18 from the Bundesliga and 17 from Serie A.
But the Premier League suffers with the statistical analysis of Opta and Football Observatory published in The Daily Mirror, which sought to find the top 50 players in Europe’s leading five leagues broken down into the best 10 strikers, attacking midfielders, defensive midfielders, central midfielders and full-backs.
The Premier League comes in at the bottom of the five leagues with just seven players represented, compared to 14 from La Liga, 11 from Serie A, nine from the Bundesliga and eight from France’s Ligue 1.
The best way to judge that is by reviewing their votes for the FIFPro World XI team of the year since it began in the 2005-06 season.
Once again, it makes for sorry reading for the Premier League which has only been represented in the FIFPro World XI team of the year 18 times, compared to La Liga, which has had a player in the team 52 times. Serie A has contributed 13 players, and the Bundesliga has only been represented on three occasions.
The great success of the Premier League is that it manages to be the best league in the world without the best players.
The power and enduring appeal of the Premier League is not in the quality of its football but rather in the excitement it provides and its inherent competitiveness.
At this stage of the season, the gap between the top five in the Premier League is by far the smallest of any of the leading European leagues.
Just 10 points separate Arsenal in first and Everton in fifth position, while in La Liga this gap is 17 points, in the Bundesliga it is 20 points and in Serie A it grows to a mammoth 24 points.
The Premier League is far from perfect, but when you take into account its global audience, sponsorship appeal, wealth generated through television rights and competitiveness, it can still call itself the most popular and powerful league in the world.
Now we will look into the quality of player's aspect to rank the leagues.
The quality of a player is of course subjective, but over the course of three different surveys, the Premier League trails behind its rivals.
But the Premier League suffers with the statistical analysis of Opta and Football Observatory published in The Daily Mirror, which sought to find the top 50 players in Europe’s leading five leagues broken down into the best 10 strikers, attacking midfielders, defensive midfielders, central midfielders and full-backs.
The Premier League comes in at the bottom of the five leagues with just seven players represented, compared to 14 from La Liga, 11 from Serie A, nine from the Bundesliga and eight from France’s Ligue 1.
The best way to judge that is by reviewing their votes for the FIFPro World XI team of the year since it began in the 2005-06 season.
Once again, it makes for sorry reading for the Premier League which has only been represented in the FIFPro World XI team of the year 18 times, compared to La Liga, which has had a player in the team 52 times. Serie A has contributed 13 players, and the Bundesliga has only been represented on three occasions.
The great success of the Premier League is that it manages to be the best league in the world without the best players.
The power and enduring appeal of the Premier League is not in the quality of its football but rather in the excitement it provides and its inherent competitiveness.
At this stage of the season, the gap between the top five in the Premier League is by far the smallest of any of the leading European leagues.
Just 10 points separate Arsenal in first and Everton in fifth position, while in La Liga this gap is 17 points, in the Bundesliga it is 20 points and in Serie A it grows to a mammoth 24 points.
The Premier League is far from perfect, but when you take into account its global audience, sponsorship appeal, wealth generated through television rights and competitiveness, it can still call itself the most popular and powerful league in the world.
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