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National Champions
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Consecutive National Championships
Skonto Riga [Latvia] 13* (1991-03..) Rosenborg BK [Norway] 12* (1992-03..) Dinamo Tbilisi [Georgia] 10 (1990-99) BFC Dynamo [GDR] 10 (1979-88) MTK [Hungary] 10 (1914,17-25) Dinamo Kyiv [Ukraine] 9 (1993-01) Rangers [Scotland] 9 (1989-97) Celtic [Scotland] 9 (1966-74) CDNA Sofia [Bulgaria] 9 (1954-62) [now known as CSKA Sofia] Olympiakos [Greece] 7 (1997-03) Maribor Branik [Slovenia] 7 (1997-03) Újpesti Dózsa [Hungary] 7 (1969-75) Spartak Moskva [Russia] 6 (1996-01) Steaua Bucuresti [Romania] 6 (1993-98) Linfield [N. Ireland] 6 (1982-87) Omonoia Nicosia [Cyprus] 6 (1974-79) Olympiakos [Greece] 6 (1954-59) Belfast Celtic [N. Ireland] 6 (1936-40,48) Chinezul Timisoara [Romania] 6 (1922-27) Fram Reykjavík [Iceland] 6 (1913-18) Celtic [Scotland] 6 (1905-10) Slavia Praha [Bohemia] 6 (1897-01) [2 championships 1897] FBK Kaunas [Lithuania] 5* (1999-03..) Sparta Praha [Czech Rep.] 5 (1997-01) Dinamo Zagreb [Croatia] 5 (1996-00) FC Porto [Portugal] 5 (1995-99) Jeunesse d'Esch [Luxembourg] 5 (1995-99) Zimbru Chisinau [Moldova] 5 (1992-96) Dinamo Minsk [Belarus] 5 (1992-95/2) Sparta Praha [CSSR/CSFR] 5 (1987-91) Real Madrid [Spain] 5 (1986-90) Steaua Bucuresti [Romania] 5 (1985-89) Omonia Nicosia [Cyprus] 5 (1981-85) Jeunesse d'Esch [Luxembourg] 5 (1973-77) KÍ [Faroe Isl.] 5 (1966-70) Anderlecht [Belgium] 5 (1964-68) Górnik Zabrze [Poland] 5 (1963-67) Real Madrid [Spain] 5 (1961-65) Hapoel Petah Tiqva [Israel] 5 (1959-63) Torino [Italy] 5 (1943,46-49) APOEL Nicosia [Cyprus] 5 (1936-40) Estonia Tallinn [Estonia] 5 (1934-36,38-39) Olympiakos [Greece] 5 (1933-34,36-38) Juventus [Italy] 5 (1931-35) Rangers [Scotland] 5 (1927-31) Sparta Praha [Czechosl.] 5 (1919-23) US Hollerich [Luxembourg] 5 (1912,14-17) Ferencváros [Hungary] 5 (1909-13) World wide :
Al Faysali [Jordan] 13 (1959-66,70-74)
Rangers FC [Scotland] 49
Linfield FC [N. Ireland] 44
Celtic FC [Scotland] 38
AC Sparta Praha [CSSR/CSFR/CR] 34 [1]
Olympiakos [Greece] 31
SK Rapid (Wien) [Austria/Ger.] 31 [2]
SL Benfica [Portugal] 30 [3]
Ajax [Netherlands] 28
CSKA Sofia [Bulgaria] 28
Real Madrid [Spain] 28
Ferencváros [Hungary] 27
Anderlecht [Belgium] 26
Jeunesse d'Esch [Luxembourg] 26
Juventus [Italy] 26
Floriana [Malta] 25
Grasshopper Club [Switzerland] 25
Slavia Praha [CSSR/CSFR/CR] 24 [1]
KR [Iceland] 23
Levski Sofia [Bulgaria] 23 [4]
Sliema Wanderers [Malta] 23
FK Austria (Wien) [Austria] 22
Crvena zvezda [Yugoslavia] 22
Dinamo Kyiv [SU/Ukraine] 22 [5]
Sporting CP [Portugal] 22 [3]
MTK [Hungary] 21
FC Porto [Portugal] 21 [3]
Spartak Moskva [SU/Russia] 21
Steaua Bucuresti [Romania] 21
Glentoran [N. Ireland] 20
HJK [Finland] 20
Újpesti TE [Hungary] 20
SK Tiranë [Albania] 19
Valur [Iceland] 19
Fram [Iceland] 18
ÍA (Akranes) [Iceland] 18
Liverpool [England] 18
Omonoia Nicosia [Cyprus] 18
Panathinaikos [Greece] 18
Valletta [Malta] 18
APOEL Nicosia [Cyprus] 17
Bayern München [(W) Germany] 17
IFK Göteborg [Sweden] 17
Maccabi Tel Aviv [Israel] 17
Partizan Beograd [Yugoslavia] 17
Rosenborg BK [Norway] 17
Servette [Switzerland] 17
FC Barcelona [Spain] 16
Dinamo Bucuresti [Romania] 16
Dinamo Tiranë [Albania] 16
HB [Faroe Isl.] 16
KÍ [Faroe Isl.] 16
Milan [Italy] 16
PSV [Netherlands] 16
Slovan Bratislava [CSSR/CSFR/SR] 16 [1]
Galatasaray [Turkey] 15
KB [Denmark] 15
Partizani Tiranë [Albania] 15
Shamrock Rovers [Ireland] 15
Belfast Celtic [N. Ireland] 14
Fenerbahçe [Turkey] 14
Feyenoord [Netherlands] 14
Górnik Zabrze [Poland] 14
Malmö FF [Sweden] 14
Manchester United [England] 14
örgryte IS [Sweden] 14
Ruch Chorzów [Poland] 14 [6]
Dinamo Zagreb [Yug./Croatia] 13
Hajduk Split [Yug./Croatia] 13
Hapoel Tel Aviv [Israel] 13
Internazionale [Italy] 13
Kispest-Honvéd [Hungary] 13
Arsenal [England] 12
Dinamo Tbilisi [SU/Georgia] 12
IFK Norrköping [Sweden] 12
AEK [Greece] 11
Anorthosis Famagusta [Cyprus] 11
FC Brugge [Belgium] 11
Dinamo Moskva [SU] 11
Dukla Praha [CSSR] 11
Skonto Riga [Latvia] 11
Spora Luxembourg [Luxembourg] 11 [7]
Union Luxembourg [Luxembourg] 11 [includes US Hollerich]
Union St. Gilles [Belgium] 11
Young Boys [Switzerland] 11
AIK [Sweden] 10
B 93 [Denmark] 10
BFC Dynamo [East Germany] 10
AS Saint Etienne [France] 10
Shelbourne [Ireland] 10
Stade Dudelange [Luxembourg] 10
FC Tirol Innsbruck [Austria] 10 [includes Wacker]
Notes:
[1] These totals include Czechoslovak, Czech and Slovak titles. Sparta
won 24 Czechoslovak and 10 Czech titles; Slavia won 11 Czechoslovak and
13 Czech titles; Slovan won 8 Czechoslovak and 8 Slovak titles.
[2] This includes Rapid's German title of 1941, along with their 30 Austrian
titles.
[3] Portuguese championship include the Campeonato de Portugal 1921-1938 and
the Campeonato de Liga from 1938/39 onwards; from 1934/35 and 1937/38 an
experimental league was organized, the winners of which (once FC Porto,
the last three seasons SL Benfica) are not considered national champions.
[4] includes the 1984/85 title originally awarded to Trakija (now Botev)
Plovdiv but returned to Levski in 1990.
[5] Dinamo Kyiv won 13 Soviet Union championships and 9 Ukrainian ones.
[6] Includes the 1951 title, which was won by virtue of the win of the
inaugural Polish Cup, and in spite of the fact that Wisla Kraków won
the league, in which Ruch only finished sixth.
[7] Spora is the result of a merger between Sporting Club and Racing Club;
in addition to the 11 championships of the merger club, Sporting won 2
and Racing 1.
In the Swedish Championship of 1998, the champions, AIK scored fewer goals than all other 13 teams: 25 in 26 matches. While this is, as far as is known, unique, it is not the lowest number of goals per game for a championship winning side. That honour probably goes to Trabzonspor K, who won the 1979/80 Turkish championship by scoring a mere 25 goals in 30 matches (and only 3 of the other 16 clubs did worse). At the other end of the table, Manchester City managed something remarkably dual to AIK's achievement: while scoring most goals (80) of all 22 teams in the 1937/38 English Championship, they finished 21st and were relegated with a positive goal difference (80-77). What made this even more striking was that they were defending champions when relegated.
In many countries, the same old teams keep winning championships, often
several on a string, as documented above.
It is less often that every year another team wins the title. The longest
series of seasons in which no club won the title twice are listed below.
Series indicated in italics involved no two teams from the same town.
11 Netherlands 1942/43-1953/54 (1942/43 ADO, 1943/44 De Volewijckers, 1944/45
not held, 1945/46 Haarlem, 1946/47 Ajax,
1947/48 BVV, 1948/49 SVV, 1949/50 Limburgia,
1950/51 PSV, 1951/52 Willem II, 1952/53 RCH,
1953/54 Eindhoven)
9 Netherlands 1918/19-1926/27 (1918/19 Ajax, 1919/20 Be Quick (Groningen),
1920/21 NAC, 1921/22 Go Ahead, 1922/23 RCH,
1923/24 Feijenoord, 1924/25 HBS, 1925/26
SC Enschede, 1926/27 Heracles)
9 Switzerland 1912/13-1920/21 (1912/13 Montriand Lausanne, 1913/14 FC Aarau,
1914/15 Brühl Sankt Gallen, 1915/16 Cantonal
Neuchâtel, 1916/17 FC Winterthur, 1917/18
Servette FC, 1918/19 Etoile La Chaux-de-Fonds,
1919/20 BSC Young Boys, 1920/21 Grasshoppers)
8 West Germany 1962/63-1969/70 (1962/63 Borussia Dortmund, 1963/64 1.FC Köln,
1964/65 Werder Bremen, 1965/66 1860 München,
1966/67 Eintracht Braunschweig, 1967/68 1.FC
Nürnberg, 1968/69 Bayern München, 1969/70
Borussia Mönchengladbach)
7 France 1991/92-1998/99 (1991/92 Olympique Marseille, 1992/93 not
awarded, 1993/94 Paris SG, 1994/95 Nantes,
1995/96 Auxerre, 1996/97 Monaco, 1997/98 Lens,
1998/99 Girondins de Bordeaux)
7 Denmark 1973 -1979 (1973 Hvidovre IF, 1974 KB, 1975 Křge Boldklub,
1976 B 1903, 1977 OB, 1978 Vejle B, 1979
Esbjerg fB)
7 England 1966/67-1972/73 (1966/67 Manchester United, 1967/68 Manchester
City, 1968/69 Leeds United, 1969/70 Everton,
1970/71 Arsenal, 1971/72 Derby County,
1972/73 Liverpool)
7 England 1958/59-1964/65 (1958/59 Wolverhampton Wanderers, 1959/60
Burnley, 1960/61 Tottenham Hotspur, 1961/62
Ipswich Town, 1962/63 Everton, 1963/64
Liverpool, 1964/65 Manchester United)
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Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics
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This version is only based on Europe
Author: Karel Stokkermans
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