Bayern wrapping up a sixth straight Bundesliga, Juve about to complete a seventh Scudetto and Celtic on a similar number in Scotland. Which league has had the most scattered distribution of champion sides (even if it's three or four sides taking the league off each other cyclically, a bit like Man United, Chelsea and Man City in the last decade)? No-one's ever won England's top flight more than three years running; are there any leagues where no-one's won more than two on the trot? I thought of Brazil, where there are a good dozen clubs who periodically win the title, but even there Santos won five on the trot in the 60s and Sao Paolo three running more recently.
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Originally posted by Rogin the Armchair fan View Posteven if it's three or four sides taking the league off each year cyclically, a bit like Man United, Chelsea and Man City in the last decade
It's only gone beyond four seasons before a repeat winner comes up on a handful of occasions ever. The first was a run of five in 1909-13 (Newcastle, Villa, Man U, Blackburn, Sunderland). Then, for a while in the 50s-70s things got really varied, with 6 different clubs winning in '50-'55 (Portsmouth, Spurs, Man U, Arsenal, Wolves, Chelsea) and then the record churn of 7, which happened on three occasions with two of those heavily overlapping - '59-'65 (Wolves, Burnley, Spurs, Ipswich, Everton, Liverpool, Man U) and the overlapping time which was an 8 year run in '66-'73 bookended by two Liverpool titles, so can either be 7 from '66-'72 or 7 from '67-'73 (Liverpool, Man U, Man C, Leeds, Everton, Arsenal, Derby, Liverpool). That was the high point of variety, and unusual noisy in the general scheme.
From the mid-70s onwards it moved to a point where even three different winners in a row was rare, with the last set of four before the recent run being the change over from the Kenny Dalglish/George Graham to Alex Fergusson eras when the title went from Liverpool to Arsenal to Leeds to Man U ('90-'93).Last edited by Janik; 13-05-2018, 10:35.
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