Not You Lot Again

[ad hoc]

11v11 is a horribly pop-up heavy site isn't it? Ill just leave it at Everton, since I;m tired of the irritations caused by all the clicking

[ursus arctos]

And the interface is particularly annoying for this kind of query, yes

[ursus arctos]

Wednesday have met Blackburn Rovers 156 times

[Simon G]

Using 11v11, the team we've played most since entering the Football League in 1999 is Carlisle United at 30 games.

[Fearful Symmetry]

I've just had a look on the rather intensive Tigerbase website, and barring any incredible run by either of them or collapse by us, Blackpool will overtake Barnsley next season. Wow.

[Antepli Ejderha]

"Celtic and Rangers have played each other 428 times in major competitions: Rangers have won 167 matches, Celtic 161 matches, and 100 ended in a draw." From Wikipedia

[Exiled off Main Street]

Here's the LFC answer according to LFC history web site


And LFC have played Arsenal 238 times - just the one behind Everton.

[Edit - I just saw Ursus response - now I don't know who to believe]

The player who has made most appearances vs LFC.... Peter Shilton with 58. Highest number by player still active, Phil Jagielka and Dacid De Gea with 25

[Hot Orange]

By 1966, the team Ipswich had played most in their league history was Leyton Orient, with 34 meetings. They haven't met since*.



* In the league

[blameless]

And the interface is particularly annoying for this kind of query, yes

Especially when after shutting down all the pop-ups and navigating the clunky menus, you find out that it doesn't cover the leagues you were looking for. Won't be bookmarking that site.

[3 Colours Red]

Soccerbase looks like it could be a viable alternative but again, it's having to go through every possible opponent one by one and I can't be arsed.

[Crystal Staples]

It's Crewe for us, with 151 meetings in all competitions, including four non-league games in the Victorian era.

League: Crewe (130)
FA Cup: Crewe (9)
League Cup: Tranmere, Wigan (6)
Football League Trophy: Burnley, Carlisle (8)
FA Trophy: Brackley, Southport (4)

Incidently, do other clubs have a resource as quite as good as this?

Yes although it lacks the aesthetics of Greens on Screen, with a slightly less memorable URL: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fxPedcqk5r0Ks_LCvN62YNaagn9rGNKPmdh8kBQsq9k/edit#gid=0

[ursus arctos]

Transfermarkt presents the data in a much better format, but lacks the historical.coverage, only going back to the 1950s for the top flight.

I am thinking that Rangers and Celtic are quite likely to be the two clubs that have faced each other most often in competitive matches, simply because of their early formation and the structure of the Scottish top flight

[Giggler]

Notts County for Bury with 119 meetings. Hardly surprising, we used to get them or Wrecsam in the first round of the League Cup every year.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Transfermarkt presents the data in a much better format, but lacks the historical.coverage, only going back to the 1950s for the top flight.

I am thinking that Rangers and Celtic are quite likely to be the two clubs that have faced each other most often in competitive matches, simply because of their early formation and the structure of the Scottish top flight

428 times

[Antepli Ejderha]

In Turkey the Inter Continental Derby had been played 396 times, that's impressive as they only play each other twice per season and not four times like in Scotland

Fenerbahçe: 149
Drawn: 122
Galatasaray: 125

One more game added as they played at the weekend.

[ursus arctos]

Here's the LFC answer according to LFC history web site


And LFC have played Arsenal 238 times - just the one behind Everton.

[Edit - I just saw Ursus response - now I don't know who to believe]

The player who has made most appearances vs LFC.... Peter Shilton with 58. Highest number by player still active, Phil Jagielka and Dacid De Gea with 25

11v11 has 237 for Arsenal and 290 for Everton

[Sam]

428 times

This (for Celtic–Rangers, for those who can't be bothered to scroll back up) is in fact beatable, I'm afraid. Because in all games, Nacional have played Peñarol (and their predecessor club Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club) 555 times, of which 109 were friendlies and 449 were competitive matches. The split is currently 196–180 in Peñarol's favour. And those figures don't include six matches that were called off or two that (for reasons I can't see on the rivalry's Wiki page) were played with reserve teams.

[ursus arctos]

Must say that some of those cup competitions would stretch my definition of "competitive" (only 269 of the 449 were in the league) but then I haven't parsed the Old Firm list.

[ursus arctos]

Looking at Wikipedia, there are a number of Rio de Janeiro derbies in the 400s, while Atlético Mineiro evidently claims 517 matches against Cruzeiro

[Sam]

It can be difficult to work out just how big some of the competitions were at the time, but I'd still be minded to accept most of them as 'official' matches. Some of them are among the oldest international club competitions going (such as the Copa Competencia, played between Argentine and Uruguayan sides starting in 1900).

It hadn't occurred to me to check Brazil, but I'd guess the state championships will push those numbers way up.

[ursus arctos]

It was more the competitions that only lasted a few years and the "league" that even the Uruguayan federation doesn't recognise.

As you know very well, the tallying of such things can become quite central to the identity of major Latin American clubs.

[Jobi1]

Transfermarkt presents the data in a much better format, but lacks the historical.coverage, only going back to the 1950s for the top flight.

I am thinking that Rangers and Celtic are quite likely to be the two clubs that have faced each other most often in competitive matches, simply because of their early formation and the structure of the Scottish top flight

Hibs and Hearts had more than a decade's head start on Celtic, so could they possibly be ahead?

[Antepli Ejderha]

Hibs and Hearts had more than a decade's head start on Celtic, so could they possibly be ahead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinbu...s.?wprov=sfla1

If you include friendlies then yes, if no then they are a long way behind.