Other domestic leagues 24/25

[koyvoo]

Braga setting up to give Amorim a memorable final game at Sporting.

If the result holds up, the Benfica v Porto match starting in an hour all of the sudden becomes all that more meaningful.

 

[koyvoo]

From 0-2 down Sporting draw level in the 81st and Braga look dead in the water.

 

[koyvoo]

Comeback complete. Amorim gets to enjoy the going away party. I guess that was fun to watch.

 

[Power Man]

PUSKAS

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/dirVAkozHQ

 

[koyvoo]

Sporting with consecutive loses since Amorim has left.

 

[gary69]

Celtic won the League cup on PKs over Rangers. A bit odlly the 5th and final PK taker for Rangers was keeper Butland, who scored with a well taken kick.

Match had an intense ending in normal time, as Celtic took a 3-2 lead in added time, only for Rangers to equalize just a minute later.

 

[Power Man]

For the LOLs

Oh Africa

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Watching Velez play on quite possibly the worst pitch I’ve ever seen. It’s a farmers field , I can hear Xavi’s tears drop.

Montoro is not letting it get to him has he’s dribbling and providing some sweeet passes

 

[Fire Sweeney]

 

[Power Man]

Atmosphere of the Algerian Clasico

Pretty awesome if you ask me

 

[luiginb]

Romanian league rn :

We got Abel Xavier at home:

 

[Savi]

So after about 15 years of having a regular season + playoffs, the Belgian League is going back to a regular season only starting in '26-'27

The playoff system had never been fully accepted by everyone, for plenty of reasons. The amount of games (40 in total, too much), having the points gained in the reg. season split in half to start the playoffs to basically create an artificial title race, not knowing what do with teams finishing below the top 6 (only the top 6 qualified for the Champions playoffs) they either had their season ended in March, or they had to play their own playoff which nobody watched since there was nothing at stake.

In 2009 we went to a playoff system and brought the number of top division teams down from 18 to 16 because "this will make Belgian clubs do better in Europe!" and "we are a small country, we can't have 18 clubs in our top division" and over these past 15 years almost every year there have been discussions and propositions to change the format, from going down to 14 teams, to implementing a (current) Champions League style model, .... and in the end we are just going back to a pre-2009 league with 18 teams and no playoffs and a 'normal' 34 game regular season

 

[luiginb]

So after about 15 years of having a regular season + playoffs, the Belgian League is going back to a regular season only starting in '26-'27

The playoff system had never been fully accepted by everyone, for plenty of reasons. The amount of games (40 in total, too much), having the points gained in the reg. season split in half to start the playoffs to basically create an artificial title race, not knowing what do with teams finishing below the top 6 (only the top 6 qualified for the Champions playoffs) they either had their season ended in March, or they had to play their own playoff which nobody watched since there was nothing at stake.

In 2009 we went to a playoff system and brought the number of top division teams down from 18 to 16 because "this will make Belgian clubs do better in Europe!" and "we are a small country, we can't have 18 clubs in our top division" and over these past 15 years almost every year there have been discussions and propositions to change the format, from going down to 14 teams, to implementing a (current) Champions League style model, .... and in the end we are just going back to a pre-2009 league with 18 teams and no playoffs and a 'normal' 34 game regular season

We copied that exact system in Romania and are still doing it haha

 

[gary69]

Don't like playoffs in football, so that's the good part. Not sure if 18 teams is too much, though. What are they going to do with 2nd division, it's been pretty small in size. Are they expanding it with more teams joining in?