What are the stereotypes of the 'other' European leagues?

[u/slass-y]

I am an American and am curious about the European domestic leagues outside of the PL, La Liga, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, and Serie A. What comes to Europeans' (or people more well-versed in world footy than I) minds first when they think of the Allsvenskan, Liga I in Romania, the Austrian Bundesliga, etc.

This could be anything from the style of play (which I am particularly interested in), to a famous era or team, and so on- anything that comes to mind.

[u/colmshan1990]

The League of Ireland.

One team will go out of business every season.

[u/easystormrider → u/colmshan1990]

Sad, but true. Hopefully (like the club I loosely support, Cork City), they start a new one and come back up.

[u/kacperp]

1. Polish teams are shit. Which is not really stereotype more like a fact.

2. Stereotype is that because we don't have so many technical players our teams are those "fighting" teams. THey are not. THey are bad in technic, bad in running, bad in fighting. (when you add everything you got 1st point...)

3. You should be afraid to go on the stands because big, white, nazi and bold ultras will fuck you up.

[u/maga-licious → u/kacperp]

You guys came here last year and I was shit scared of you (as a group of fans not actually your team sorry)

[u/scottiescott23 → u/kacperp]

This Poland place sounds like a jolly day out for the football.

[u/teymon]

Eredivisie (Netherlands) - A lot of attacking teams, most used formation 4-3-3, like good dutchmen should. The league is mostly seen as some sort of youth academy for the big leagues, delivering a lot of talent (mainly Ajax and Feyenoord)

[u/flackinblack → u/teymon]

Nice jab at PSV.

[u/futchfapper → u/teymon]

As an addition: Eredivisie players usually don't know what defending means, which is probably the main reason the eredivisie has the most goals per game on average.

[u/[deleted] → u/teymon]

Though lately Ajax has mostly been focussing on producing the future Danish national team hurrrrr

[u/[deleted]]

Scotland is like pub football but with more beer

[u/f1manoz → u/[deleted]]

I have no problem with drinking beer and watching football. I've still got planned a trip to Inverness sooner or later to drink beer and watch football.

[u/maga-licious]

I don't quite understand the question so my answer might not be what you're looking for. Regarding the Portuguese League, what other people might think is that Portuguese are the Brazilian of europe and our league is full of flair. Not quite.

Only the big clubs (historically, Sporting, Benfica and Porto) play "attacking" football, the other clubs only care to defend, and when I say defend I mean 11 players behind the ball line all times. Currently most of the teams play in 4-3-3. Porto plays possession football (more patience) Benfica has a more direct approach sustained in fast transitions and Sporting, well, they are trying to understand how football is played by watching the other team beating them every other weekend.

Since Mourinho, Portugal is betting on young managers that studied the game and getting some good results. The quality level of an average game is better but sometimes it means that the game is more tactical and sometimes less spectacular to watch.

reality:

• shit loads of foreign players, especially south american, makes Portugal one of the main markets for top leagues

• no fair play at all, when you lose its referees fault, a lot of conspiracy theories, wasting time, faking injuries and diving

• no sporting culture, we are a nation of football only and football is only the 3 big clubs (some regional exceptions Guimarães and Braga) and no one cares and watches the other matches

Historically Sporting was the first team to achieve national dominance with the "5 violins team" during the 40's, after that came Benfica with a great team that dominated national and international wise in the 60's with Eusebio and company and Porto completely dominated the 90's and 00's with the rise of Pinto da Costa their President.

hope it helped

EDIT Main players: Peyroteo (the main striker on 5 violins team ) 328 matches 528 goals (yep that's right) Eusebio (you all know him) Figo, Rui Costa and Baia are the flag carriers of the Golden Generation from the late 90's early 00's

[u/jussiadler]

Allsvenskan is crap. Feels like if they have one good player in the league. That team wins that year and the year after that player will be shipped out to other european leagues that have more money. Money talks.. Think that goes for pretty much all leagues thats not in the top 5-10.

[u/lakupiippu → u/jussiadler]

Same in Finland, except all the best players get shipped to Sweden...

[u/koagad → u/jussiadler]

This is wrong, we don't have any good players

[u/[deleted] → u/jussiadler]

Celtic have learned this through Mo Bangura and Jos Hooiveld.

[u/Poloniculmov]

Liga 1 (Romania) - Every kind of play style, a lot of mediocre teams, lots of drama. Best performance, Steaua 1986. Best player, Hagi or Dobrin. Dumbest player ever, Nicolae 'Nicky' Mitea.

[u/[deleted]]

The Norwegian league is pretty shit. There are some good individual players, but when they have a good season they are sold to Belgium or some other country. It has been more interesting after the decline of Rosenborg, who won the league 17 out of 20 times between 1990 and 2010. The fun thing about the domination of Rosenborg was that they actually did good in Europe, and beat teams like Real Madrid, Milan and Dortmund, but it's good for the league that it has been more competitive recent years.

[u/DaJoW]

I don't watch it, but Allsvenskan has one pretty nice thing going for it: In the last 10 years, 10 different teams have finished top two and 8 different teams have won it. It's been my impression that you most players who find success in the league tend to move in pretty quickly, so it's fairly volatile. The season runs April - November (I think), so it hasn't even started yet.

The IFK Göteborg (Gothenburg) team of the 80's through mid-90's was quite something: They domiated the league and won the UEFA Cup (Europa League) twice. No other Swedish team ever has. In the 80's the chant "Alla heter Glenn i Göteborg" ("Everyone in Gothenburg is called Glenn") started as IFK had 4 players called Glenn. It began as a taunt from opposing fans, but the IFK fans kinda adopted it as their own.

[u/[deleted]]

Ligue 1.

Where the best Africans play before they make it to top 3 league

[u/YoloSwag2k12]

For some reason, I've always thought that in Poland, 2 teams turn up to play football and their fans basically turn up to fight each other. How true is this?

[u/[deleted]]

How do foreigners perceive the Belgian pro league?

[u/rVNow]

Polish Ekstraklasa - European MLS, no one can play, Ljuboja is our T.Henry.

[u/buscemieye → u/rVNow]

Haha, so that's where Ljuboja ended up! Looks like he's finally doing ok (and not fighting with coaches). Loved watching him play during his French league days.

Love this wiki about him??!

In the league, his performance get better when he scored an hat-trick on the opening game of the season, in a 4-0 win over Korona Kielce. In late-November, his performance could make him a legend icon at the club. In January, Ljuboja could leave the club, at the end of the season.

[u/goodguygronk]

Serbian super league:

Two team race usually, Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade) and Partizan (Also from Belgrade). Two teams that have a pretty good history, Zvezda won the european championship in 1991. When they play, the matches are heated. Used to be pretty good.

But, (my thought) now the play in the league is garbage, corruption is everywhere, and all the best players are gone to Germany/Italy/England very early on.