I`d say either the english which possesses the classiest football or (and some may call me mad)but i actually enjoy the Scottish style - Quick high tempo no time on the ball and a real bloodbath especially the old-Firm clash.and there is none of that diving you see abroad.

I was sure you would say the english league.


i think the strongest has always been the italian serie A. Now the spanish and the english are prettu strong too.

Best league is the Italian but the best match is Rangers vs Celtic, there's nothing better than watching a bunch of tims walking home with their tails between their legs and their heads down dreaming about having a team half as good as the Gers.

The best is Italian Serie A

Tims wanting to be as good as the Huns.
What have the huns ever won ?

The silence is as defeaning

I think the best leagues are in order
English
Italian
Spanish or the french league

Best leagues to watch in order:
1.Italian
2.English
3.German
4.Spanish
French seems to be 5th best however i only see their european cup games.

The best league is the seria A, but the Premier League and bundesliga are also very good
1.Italy
2.england
3.spain
4.germany
5.greece/france

1. Italian Serie A
2. English Premier
3. Spanish La Liga
4. German Bundesliga
5. Argentina League ( A league that doesn't get enough credit)

In sequential order:

1. Italian Seria A
2. English Premier League
3. Spanish League
4. France League
5. Dutch League

based on players transfer value and wages!

Are you all blind?

Can´t you see that the three spanish teams in the Champions league, have lead their groups?

Personally, I think the best league is the spanish, folowed really close by italian, and then the English, German and French leagues.

Please, I just say this by the latest positions and scores in the games.

Barcelona, Valencia and Real Madrid are not may be the best teams in the world, but they fight in teir league with very hard teams . they the first but no in spanish league.

The best is English , surely. Israel says Spanish. Yes- Barca, Valencia , and R.Madrid lead the groups in CL, but will Racing, Deportivo, Rayo , or Betis, etc do it - no!
But will Liverpool, Totn`am,Villa,W`Ham,do?
I think they will be not the last there.
English league has more equal teams, than Primero , and even Serie A do. And they play beautiful game , and no English (and British in general) team won`t do match like Bayer-Monaco in 1997 CL, when Barthez and Collina could freely sit down and talk about the weather, while Kirsten & co just stood in the center with the ball behind them. Chelsea crushed Hertha even although they both needed a draw , and they fought , like in the final game - you won`t see it in other land, than Britain

Rostislav I agree that the competition is maybe more even in England, but fact is Italian league has more great teams than England, and almost every week you have a match between two great teams, while same cannot be said of England.

Gotta be the English Premier league. I agree with Rostislav, there's a lot of great quality teams and upsets are always likely. And I like the pace of the english games, always bound to bring in the goals and quality goals too. I love the physical nature of the game too.
To judge leagues based on wages and player values is laughable. Does anybody here think Anelka is worth the 23 mill transfer and 50k odd pounds that he get's weekly ? I think you can rather rate these as the most overpaid leagues or something like that.
Polishpower, can you backup your saying that the Italian league has more great teams then england ?
As for other leagues, I like the Eerste divisie ( Holland ) , Bundesliga is okay.

Inter and AC Milan, Lazio, Roma, Parma, Fiorentina, Juventus.

England great teams right now are Arsenal, Chelsea, Man U. and Liverpool although that last is playing badly. Leeds is a good team but just don't have the guns to stay at top, notice the style of their loss to Wimbledon today, they didn't have one good shot on goal the whole game.

I live in USA and the coverage of soccer here is better than almost any country in the world, if not the best.

This is what you get if you live in New York:

Free over the air tv:
2 Mexican League games every sunday
1 MLS league every sunday
1 Italian league game and 1 hour highlight show every sunday.

Basic Cable TV(id say 75 percent of people have cable):
Best Champions League game every wednesday,
Spanish League replay of best game of the week on monday,
2 hour highlight show of English league every sunday, plus live game on sunday on pay per view.
average 2 additional MLS games every week,
average 4 additional Mexican League games,

Small Satellite dish (id say 10 percent of people have it)
You get all the above plus:
German league live game on friday and saturday on tape delayb
English league live game saturday on ppv, another game on tape delay, and a live game on monday.
Most of UEFA cup games involving english and German teams.
Italian League: live game saturday, two live games sunday, plus another sunday game on tape delay, plus all the uefa cup games and national team games.
Live Chilean league game on Saturday
Live Argentina league game on Sunday

Plus if you live close to a good pub you can get big dish satellite games of Scottish league, Champions league games involving English teams, games from south america like libertadores cup.




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English Premier League

Fat Bhoy: We won today didn't we? In case you forgot the final score was 4-2

DirkDiggler you can F**K off and take that bunch of diving imports with you - Men of the match Jackie McNamara, Eyal Berkovic, Allan Stubbs and Marko Viduka.

1. Italian
2. Spanish League
3. German League
4. Brazilian League
5. French League
6. Greece League
7. Turkey League
8. Argentina League
9. Finnish League
10. English League

Man , I undertand ,you`re Finnish , but English league after Greek, Turkish,Argentina(have no clue of how they play ,but their best guys are in Europe) and Finnish ??? You hate English for some reason , I think. I haven`t put Ukrainian one before FA premiership. This was the first foreign footbal, that we saw in the USSR (that was FA cup). And that was (and is fantastic) . Our league was one of the best that days , but we all fell in love with the English football.
But that was REAL English one http://www.soccergaming.com/ubb/smile.gif (with almost no foreigners). And that was really great. I think REAL BRITISH FOOTBALL IS THE BEST!
At least for a reason, that they invented it.

Polish Power, wow, your coverage is great! My local TV and local cable company is crap! I only get MLS, English Premier Highlights, Champions League and a Spanish La Liga Match

I've got to say that the Greek league is
really interesting and there is a lot of action especially when two rival teams play
like Olympiakos(#1,baby)and Panathinaikos.The
crowd goes crazy and they start breaking stuff and shooting rocks,bats,sticks etc..on
the players or on the other fans.But I've got to give credit to the Spanish,Italian,German,English,Turkish and French leaugues.

the australian soccer league

ops...forgot to mention the yugoslav 4th division, gotta love loznica

Aussie soccer?
Are you mad.Yeah maybe it`s improving with teams like Northern Spirit and parra power but the level of play is still light years behind say the english & spanish leagues.
But anyway go the Strikers.

Aussie league for sure!!!

We may not have all the class but at least we play it tough!

Aussies seem not to go down in fake injury spasms for the slightest contact as the rest of the world leagues are inclined to do. We unfortunatly are starting to adapt your cry baby attitude, so my opinion might change within a couple of years.

Comon, get up you whoos!

Rugby League!
Go the Brisbane Broncos!
Sorry. Just had to do it.

Although i hate league i still like to watch the broncos but hey this is a footy site oh sorry it`s soccer over here isn`t it enough of that.

I see what you mean about the european leagues and the diving etc. You should try watching Scottish football it doesn`t have the diving (unless your watching rangers) and it has passion, skill and is fast and high tempo. Do you have Austar or fox GALAH?

Hey Rostislav you say that English league is the best and english teams are very powerful
Tell me did Arsenal lose and get disqualified by PAOK Salonica or is it just my imagination...?
Take Arsenal or Liverpool to play against AEK Athens or Olympiakos
They don't stand a chance...
Only Man utd can beat them but now United is like crap...
So cut the crap about premier league

Ti egine M1ke mono olympiakos kai panathinaikos paizoun derbi
i AEK oxi?
a katalava...
de se pairnei na milas gia AEK giati synexeia xanete!!
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Demis - Nobody has ever been disqualified for losing a match. They might've been knocked out, but not disqualified. HUGE difference. I wouldn't bet on AEK athens or Olympiakos beating Arsenal or Liverpool or even man utd, got better things to do with my money. In fact, on a given day almost any team can beat any other team, and that's what makes football so exciting, the game can change in seconds, a player sent off, a penalty given, a penalty not given and so on.
PolishPower - great selection of footie coverage there. All along I thought americans were only interested in american football ( why do they call it that when it's evidently not played with the foot alone ? )

I love football,
so i try to watch as much as possible and this usually means watching alot of different leagues but i cannot watch the spanish league, i`ve tried many a time and i finally watched a full game it was Real Madrid V some other team and Real came back to win 3-2 but the game was totally ruined by fakes and dives it must be hell for good defenders having all these cheats around them, a huge difference from the Scottish PL.

I think Greek League is the best because it has derbies that just don't exist in other leagues. When e.g. Panathinaikos playes against Olympiakos or AEK life itself gains value (!). I don't think games between Inter and Milan AC reach the one tenth (1/10) of the passion of greek derbies.

Canoe
PAOK Salonica 1-0 Arsenal
Arsenal 1-1 PAOK Salonica in 1998
PAOK qualified for next round Arsenal didn't

Top 6:
1 - Italian League
2 - Spanish League
3 - Brazilian League
4 - German League
5 - English League
6 - Argentinian League

When i started this poll i meant what league Plays the best style, is the best to watch and has the class etc.Keep it up anyway.

1.English
2.Italian
3.German
4.Spanish
5.French
6.Portuguese
7.Brazilian
8.MLS

Demis - First things first, that match was in 97 and not 98, it did fall in the 97/98 season.
Hmmm...... and you are trying to say that PAOK is a better side than Arsenal then? REALLY ? If I remember correctly, Arsenal went on to win the league and FA cup that season. And PAOK won what again ? Hmmmmmm ???? So thus the better team isn't the one that went on to achieve things but rather the one that progressed to the following round of a euro cup at the expense of that side.
If anything I can only draw one conclusion here. In 96/97 we lost to Borussia Moenchengladbach (sp?) and the following year we lost to PAOK. So then BMoenchengladbach and PAOK should be about the same strength, right ? Need I say more ?

bah...what are you guys saying that Brazilian league is one of the best leagues??
Brazilian league is the worst in the world!! (ps: I'm Brazilian) There's no relegation for the famous teams here. If you loose in the field, you can win in the Justice (mastered by Rio de Janeiro's clubs, like: Botafogo,Vasco,Flamengo) there's no relegation for these clubs!!!

The best leagues are:
1- English Premiership
2- Italian Series A
3- Spanish
4- Bundesliga
5- French