yes, was my exact thought lol. I thought it'd be all 2. Bundesliga teams, and it was close enough as a guess. But I do think it's more interesting the way Alfie did it
Maybe you’ll get a chance in the next season in the 3. Bundesliga 🙃 Jokes aside, I hope you’ll get promoted back to the Bundesliga asap, because you belong there. I’d take Schalke and HSV in the Bundesliga over Hoffenheim and DosenBallsport everyday.
How are things looking for the future? My German grandpa gave me an old Schalke jersey a few years ago as he grew up a fan, so I have a soft spot for them and hope they will do well.
@@jameshenderson6715 The last 3 games of the first half of the season were promising. Hopefully we can now play a good second half and perhaps aim for promotion next season.
Schalke's attendance is even more impressive when you consider that in a radius of 60km there are 8 other former or actual Bundesliga clubs - including Dortmund, Leverkusen and Gladbach.
Not really. The Ruhrgebiet is one of the biggest metropolitan areas in europe and the biggest in germany with over 5 million inhabitants. There are only 3 Clubs in the first or second Division of german Football in that metropolitan area which are Dortmund, Bochum and Schalke. (Gladbach, Leverkusen and Düsseldorf are not part of the Ruhrgebiet but rather of a region called Niederrhein) Also considering traffic within this 60 km radius is utterly horrible with düsseldorf being one of the worst cities to travel to in regards to traffic jams and a very proud and strong regional identity present in and for the Ruhrgebiet it is really not that astounding that Schalke has this high of an attendance specifically if you think about the socio economic factors people suffer from in Gelsenkirchen and bordering cities like Herne, Essen or Recklinghausen. Every Ruhrgebiet-Club currently has a attendance percentage of 93% or above and it says more about the people there than about the club itself. Even Bochum has a 93% attendance percentage while being in last place and only winning a single game so far.
@@Niclasla Still these cities are just around 60km away from Gelsenkirchen. And one should not forget that most of the foreign Schalke Stars actually lived in Duesseldorf while playing in Gelsenkirchen!
Im genuinely convinced you would have an absolute blast researching and talking about HSV. We have had so much insane stuff happen in our decade long downfall and failure to get promoted. Like a board member of ours forgetting a briefcase full of all our financial documents in the local park and it getting leaked, or the frankly disgraceful and (allegedly) definitely corrupt doping ban on our Centre back Mario Vuskovic
Sadly, that’s accurate. Schalke, HSV, Kaiserslautern and (previously) Stuttgart and Werder. One of my earliest football memories is werder bremen giving Cruyff’s Barca dream team a decent game in the European Supercup final in 1993. It was shocking to see them in the second bundesliga. And as a Liverpool fan, hamburger were the team Kevin Keegan went to to win his much deserved ballon dor and another CL. It’s a shame they are where they are today.
@@supercalefredjalistnot always Bournemouth have by far the smallest attendance in the prem and they've been there for 3 seasons and heidenheim have the lowest in the Bundesliga
I am going to give a shout out for Sunderland as an Ipswich supporter since 68. Sunderland has always been a favourite place to visit as there is a real sense of togetherness there. The city isn’t much but the people are wonderful. They just love their football club.
Portsmouth fan here and yes, I agree with Sunderland. I remember attending the Checkatrade trophy final in 2019 between Pompey and Sunderland and we packed our Wembley with over 85,000 fans, which is remarkably more than attended the FA Cup final in 2022, '23 or '24. This was for a trophy between League 1 and 2 clubs.
I’m a Fulham fan and I completely agree with you on this. Fantastic club and fans who are loyal to their local team, which personally I think is the best way. I have more respect and better appreciation to fans of their local team than any person who supports a bigger and more prestigious club. Ipswich and Portsmouth included. Ps I hope both sides stay up in 2025
Germans have a stadium culture. Almost all sports draw huge crowds, not just the ones they are good at or some favourite sports. Most sports. There's not really any other country like that in Europe. They will be sitting in a stadium of 30.000 to watch table tennis.
Local fans are over rated, if this guy included social media followings this list would completely different lol. All the huge clubs have massive world wide fanbases. Those the ones that lift you above the rest. You can sell out a stadium of 30k but can your social media accounts get 300 million plus people to follow it like Barca United or Real Madrid?
I remember back then when Schalke used to feature in the Champions League... Also when Huntelaar was the striker. Good times. Hope the team returns to where they belong
Germany is so weird. The only country where literal village teams created a couple decades ago like Hoffenheim and Heidenheim are at higher levels than big city clubs with decorated histories like Schalke and Hamburg
While I can see the angle for Heidenheim due to the name change when the separate football division split off, I really don't see the "created a couple decades ago" for Hoffenheim (there's plenty of valid critique of this billionaire vanity project). They got big money not that long ago, yes, but have been created way before that. And I'm very sure that we don't want to go down the route of founding of an AG or GmbH for professional football as founding date for a team, it would result in plenty of nonsense, e.g. Stuttgart being "created" in 2017
The colon stadium has that nickname because in the 60' and 70' they beat bigger teams like pele santos, who was 40 games unbeaten. Colon is not even in a top 25 argentina teams, so that is a big achievement for such a tiny club. Its like if hull wins against bayern munich.
Colón most definitely is a top 25 Argentina team. It sits 18th in the all time Primera División points table (despite only reaching it realtively late, in 1966), and is the team with the most seasons in the top flight outisde of the traditional centers of argentine football (Buenos Aires, Rosario and La Plata), surpasing teams from much larger cities like Córdoba or Tucumán. I'd say it is somewhere around 12th and 16th (depends on what criteria you choose for ranking teams), based on years in Primera, number of fans, trophies, participation in international tournaments, etc. Also, while the nickname does originate in the 60s (when the team defeated giants like Santos, Peñarol and even the Selección), it managed to survive to this day because the stadium has a history of being difficult for big teams (=elephants).
Creo que se refería a que no era uno de los 25 mejores en el momento en que le ganaron al Santos. En base a su consolidación en el siglo XXI, ahí sí, sin duda está en el top 20.
I am genuinely convinced that the 2nd Bundesliga is the best/funnest league in Europe this season. Blows all of the big 5 out of the water. Great teams, great stadiums, incredibly competetitive.
There are also the second Bundesliga teams with Hamburg, Schalke, Magdeburg who won International titles and Cologne who reached 8 european semi-finals. So there are 3 second Bundesliga teams who won an international title. In the first Bundesliga there are with Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Gladbach, Frankfurt, Bremen 6 teams who won an international title so 1/3 of the league. 2 Bundesliga only 1/6 of the league.
Alfie I‘d highly encourage you to also look at Bursaspor (one of only two Turkish clubs outside of Istanbul to have ever won the championship) as they average around 40.000 spectators in the fourth tier of Turkish football. The extreme level of mismanagement since 2010 could also make for a interesting video
Another great video. Although I'm English living in Cornwall, I visit Kraków every four weeks. Have been a season ticket holder for many years. Fantastic city and football club. Your pronunciation is usually very good, however, Wisła is pronounced Viswa not Visla. In Poland, the letter ł is pronounced as a 'w'. Another great rivalry is that between Wisła Kraków and Cracovia, especially considering their location to each other. Watch out, too, for Wieczysta Kraków, probably the fastest growing team in Poland, on a par with Wrexham, but without the celebrity ownership.
He got the Ł right when he did his video on Widzew Łódź. I went to a Wisła match while on my travels, and although I visited lots of different football clubs, I’ve become interested in Ekstraklasa and also Wisła matches in 1 Liga. Wisła had a strangely mixed 2024, with the combination of euphoria from winning the cup and despair at the league form within days. I think they’ll have to improve to win promotion this season, even though they have Angel Rodado the league’s top goalscorer.
You have the best voice and attitude to narrate those videos. I love your sarcasm and the way you talk about those odd aspects of football. Love your videos!
was in Kaiserslautern last year when there was a home game, it was like the whole town were going to watch it pretty much everyone were wearing football tops, scalves
Kaiserslautern have a population of 90.000 people if I remember correctly and average over 40.000 people per match in the second division. Absolutely mental.
@@yaneyd93 The numbers are very misleading since Kaiserslautern doesn't only represent the city but the whole state of Rhineland-Palatine (population of 4.1million) and people from all over the state attend to their home games. Also Kaiserslautern has kind of the nimbus of being "germanys club" due to the 1954 WC winning team was basically made of Kaiserslautern players and some add-ons which is the reason for them having traditionally a huge fan base all over the country. Don't be fooled by the size of their city.
Yeah, and although Mainz is playing in the Bundesliga for over ten years now, while Kaiserslautern was playing only in 2. Bundesliga and 3. league during this time, Mainz is still completely irrelevant in the southwest of Germany in terms of Fans. Kaiserslautern is the most supported team in two German states: Rhineland-Palatine and Saarland.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki Day 14 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017 Furthermore, they now regularly compete in Europe, have kept their successful trainer Kjetil Knutsen, and are on course for a new modern stadium that will replace Aspmyra This is right up your alley, Alfie. Make. This. Video. Happen. Cheers! 😎🇳🇴
How about a video of the biggest clubs that have never played top flight football I'm sure that Plymouth Argyle and Bristol Rovers would be contenders for that
Italy has had few notable big clubs that ended up going down to the lower tiers Parma' Fiorentina' Sampdoria and most notable of all Juventus but for an entirely different reason to the others
Correction: That match between Karşıyaka and Göztepe actually took place in 1981, Alfie. It's also known as the İzmir Derby, although the last match took place in 2016, as neither team featured in the same league since then.
On Sunderland’s away support; I would hasten to mention that we sell out the vast majority of away days and would like to highlight the 9,000 fans we took to Old Trafford for the League Cup semi final in the 2014 and the two times (Blackpool - New Years Day 2019 and Blackburn - Boxing Day 2024) we took 7,000 to each of those games. Not to mention our filling of Trafalgar Square the night before playing at Wembley.
A few years back, Dynamo Dresden took 35.000 to Berlin and it wasnt even the quarter fianls of the Pokal. Or Frankfurts 20.000 in Barcelona. The list goes on, Germanys fans are insane
Note to my club Ceará SC that promoted from the Serie B to the Brasileirão Serie A this year, that from the 10 highest attendances of the season, we owned 8 of them!! first being 63.908 surpassing the max capacity of the stadium of 63.903
@14515-un no, I was 10 and I was in the away end with my dad we travelled all over I'm a villa fan , back at villa park their was just over 39.000 ,United won the league and villa was second I'm 61 this year , I suppose I am very old but I still love the villa
@@evonne_oUnited is not going down even as funny as it may be, not even Everton has gone down and they’ve been shocking for 4 seasons now there’s always worse clubs
Hey Alfie! Just wanted to give some insight regarding the Paysandu situation, which you mentioned ahead of the Athletico Paranaense entry. So Paysandu are used to playing in two stadiums, the Mangueirão - which is state owned - and the Curuzu Stadium - owned by the club. Whenever they take part in big games, such as the local derby against Remo or important matches throughout the league season, Paysandu are used to playing in the Magueirão, registering crowds of 40+ thousands (due to the enourmous 53.000 capacity of the stadium). But on "unimportant" or not that "attractive" fixtures, they choose the Curuzu, which has a capacity of 16.200. That may explain why their attendance numbers fluctuate a lot!
I tend to get caught on a new hyper fixation every couple of years and I explored a wide range of topics through TH-cam and I have to say this is one of the most unique and well researched TH-cam channels within football practically no other channel covers the topics you do or brings up any of these topics.
I'm a season ticket holder at Schalke.. and honestly, the support has only been suffering if the football is unbearable; To make sure that there is a message to the players. The support is amazing, the fan-base is the best in germany, and I can't wait till we promote in the future!
FC Groningen seems to be in the same boat as Shimizu S-Pulse and miss out of the ultimate honor on being in an Alfie Top 7 by gaining promotion. Their average attendance in the 23/24 season in the Dutch Eerste Divisie was just over 20.000 in a 22.500 capacity stadium. Not a total surprise, Groningen is close to the German border.
Colon's stadium is called "Elephant's Graveyard" because on 1964 the team managed to beat Santos from Brazil that had Pele as their big star and hadn't lost for 43 matches before facing Colon in that stadium. As a kid I always thought that the big teams from Buenos Aires had a tough time winning there so the people from Santa Fe nicknamed it like that. They tend to imply that "it was hard to win there" on TV at least.
Sheffield having two teams, who have been mostly in the second or third tier for the past 30 years, getting over 25,000 given the size of the city is crazy. All of the other most supported teams in the division are one club cities.
I've always thought Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United, and Sunderland should be in competition for trophies. Their fanbases are a huge part of football history and culture in my eyes.
I never get this Wednesday thing. The club has not averaged over 30k since 1968. Not overly impressive for a so called massive club. And no I'm not a blade.
@1oriss from what I understand they've not been allowed to fill the stadium for ages and we're in division 3 in the 70s, but their fans travel like the best. Their away support always sells out and look at their Wembley visits or that comeback from the other year. I remember them from the 90s as one of the most exciting clubs on the up.
One more thing about Wisła Kraków. Their previous owner you mentioned, Bogusław Cupiał, had a dream to bring his club to the Champions League. Back then, especially by Polish football standards, the UCL money was basically a fortune. Yet, despite dominating Polish football for years, and coming close a few times, they never realised that goal. It's a similar situation to many Championship clubs gambling on promotion, when they didn’t hit the jackpot and ended up in deep trouble. Cupiał sold his shares, and Wisła began their decline, which ultimately cost them their Ekstraklasa status. Things only got worse for them since. First season after relegation, they spended heavily on players and wages, and despie that missed out on automatic promotion. Then, they lost in the playoff semifinal to Puszcza Niepołomice, with their goalkeeper bagging two assists. For some context, Niepołomice is a small town in Małopolska, the same region as Kraków, and there are more people watching Wisła's games every week in 1. Liga than there are people living in Niepołomice. And yet, they were the ones who won promotion, and then survived in the Ekstraklasa the following season, with the highest league finish of any other club from the region. And Wisła finished last season in 10th place.
What destroyed Wisła Kraków the most was bringing in a huge number of foreign footballers on the recommendation of football agents. Mostly Spaniards who played there in the 2nd and 3rd leagues. Most drew large salaries and contributed nothing in the match. Domestic players benched. Now they are improving (and more national players) a bit and have a good chance of promotion.
Important context (14:25): during the 2012 Serie B, Paranaense didn't play in the Arena da Baixada due to the World Cup renovation works, instead, they played half of their home games in Paranaguá, a city over 100 kilometres away in the Fernando Sharbub Farah, a stadium with less than 15.000 seats, and the other half in the Eco-Estadio Janguito Malucelli, which, albeit homely and environmentally friendly, was the smallest stadium by far in the competition with only around 4.000 seats. Also, the average attendance of the ENTIRE competition was also small, at 4.654 per match. amazing video as always, though, much love from Paraná
Wouldve been nice to mention Bradford City as they are arguably the largest 4th division club in the world. Average 18000 fans and that is without any notable success in the last 5 years and without any visiting supporters to boost the attendance.
A couple of years ago, when they were in League One they had 18,000 season ticket holders. In League Two its dropped to 14,600, that's more than Bournemouth.
I’m a Cardiff supporter in the same league as Sunderland, and I’m always amazed by their support home and away. They need to be back in the premiership, along with Leeds united.
Day 12 Best 7 Norwegian players in premier league excluding Haaland and Ødegaard(too predictable) Yet another banger video Alfie! 5 times Norwegian league champions and 6 times Cup champion Lillestrøm SK represent Norway in this video topic, as they got relegated after a dreadful last season. 😳
My brother in law supports Wisla Krakow but i support the little club who had never won a top until 23/24 and were second 2 seasons previous and won there first polish cup twice and were in the finals again when they won the league but didnt do the double and there name is Rakow cheztahowa, great little club with a fairy tail story that am surprised your channel has not picked up on.
3:52 "finished 10th in the I-liga" I as in the roman numeral. Not as in literally "i" 😁 Ekstraklasa is the highest league in Poland, the I-liga (first league) is the 2nd highest, confusing I know
@@maciejbala477it’s the same in Ukraine: our top tier is called Premier League (formerly just “The Higher League”), and the second tier is called “The First League”. And we still for some reason have the audacity to laugh at the English and the Germans for calling our second floor a “first floor”, and our first floor a “ground floor” 😂
That Izmir Derby has a competitor for the 2nd division attendance record. The visit of Augsburg to 1860 Munich on 1973 held safety concerns. It was feared that the Gruenwalderstadion, then with a 40k capacity might not be the most secure. The game was switched to the Olympiastadion instead. Just as well. It is estimated that 80k packed the place with thousands more outside the ground. Crushes were reported inside and out, and hundreds had to seek medical treatment. It is a miracle there wasn't a fatality recorded. It could so easily have been a tragedy on the scale of Hillsborough given the numbers.
Watch the Polish 2nd league next year when Śląsk Wrocław (Ekstraklasa runners up last year) will surely be there too - their fall from grace is criminal mismanagement.
Sunderland’s home crowds are clsss. But historically they’ve never really traveled away from home. Has chnaged slightly in recent years but Wednesday and leeds still take more than them by far on average.
If the topic of large clubs in the second German league interests you, it might be an idea to do further research on how this came about over the past 20 years. In the end, it’s not about the relative weakness of traditional clubs, but rather about the entrepreneurship and ability of smaller teams in Hoffenheim, Augsburg, Leipzig, Heidenheim or Wolfsburg to execute well with external Money sources and crowd out others while they used the Bundesliga TV revenue to stay on top.
Without further Adu, this was a good watch, thank you.😮 Southampton fc are going to championship next season and will have to go back up to premier League.😅
Don't know if this idea has been asked before, but something I just thought of is "Seven best players who won a international trophy before they won a club trophy." Not sure if there is enough players to fill it. Though a player who could be added to it is Lamine Yamal who won the euros before he won a trophy with the senior team of Barcelona
I have a Schalke jersey. Every time i see it in my laundry or I am about to put it on to play a sunday game of ball, I wonder wow! Schalke what happened......?
2:47 As a HSV fan, I'm massively disgusted by this decision considering its heritage and being 6th in Germany by number of visitors, with only Schalke and 4 1st Bundesliga clubs being in front. There should have been made another video about these clubs
Hammarby in Sweden had a average attendance of 20500 in 2014 while in the second division. That was the highest including the top division. They were promoted that year and the attendance went up to 25 000. If one of the giants from Stockholm were to drop out of highest they are definitely threatening the seventh spot on this list
I think attendance should have been one of multiple factors considered because if you did this under the same rules with top flight teams Real Madrid would be 6th and Bayern wouldn't even make it in.
14:24 Just to clarify, the average attendance of 4000 during the 2012 Brazilian série B campaign for Athletico-PR was because they were playing their home games in a 4000-6000 seat stadium (that no longer exists) while the Arena da Baixada was being renovated for the world cup. There's a legendary match that ended in a 5-4 win over América/MG in that stadium (Ecoestádio Janguito Malucelli), with the winning goal in the last minute, which was crucial for their promotion that year. I lived like 1km from the stadium and the crowd noise was insane when it happened. It should also be said that Athletico-PR were Copa Libertadores finalists in 2022 and Copa Sudamericana champions in 2019 and 2021, which adds to the insanity of their relegation last year, WHICH WAS THE CLUB'S 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
Sad to see these seven respective footballing clubs being in their respective lower leagues but they can enjoy playing there before being promoted sooner rather than later,good friends!!!
As a solemn promise, i hereby swear if i ever enter the adult entertainment business, i will name my first film Athletico Club Colon. The first scene will about the ability to expand the capacity.
Although you could make the case that the likes of Deportivo and Malaga were never historically big clubs and actually overacchieved by qualifying for Europe much like when Leicester City won the EPL for instance and have since fallen back to their more natural level
Deportivo de La Coruña is arguably a historically bic club. They won La Liga in the year 2000 and reached the semis of the Champions League in 2004, thrashing Milan 4-0.
Deportivo were able to compete for titles in Spain & Europe for almost 2 decades, so their fall has been sad... But another big historical club in Spanish Segunda is Real Zaragoza, 6 Copas, 1 Fairs Cup, 1 Cup Winners Cup
Brazilian fanbases are extremely loyal. We don't go to matches so frequently for the simple fact of it being absurdly expensive and we are freaking poor.
Hello, HITC Sevens! Thank you for the videos. My video idea is something like "What is going on in the entire Premier League", or maybe in European football in general. Why did most or half of the big 6 crumble this season? Man City, Spurs, Man United, and Chelsea and Arsenal aren't doing too well, too, from what I hear. It could be money redistribution (for smaller teams), incompetence, coincendences, or fixture congestion. Have a nice day, everyone!
Surely Sheffield is the number 1 city of football? Wednesday and United, between them, average 50-60k, even though we both spent years in the lower devisions. First football team from Sheffield, first away match involved Sheffield, v Notts County. First use of subs, floodlights, shin pads, need i go on? Sheffield is the home of football ,though both clubs have now been massively surpassed by other English teams now
can we please have a video about the neglected cymru premier league? despite having the 3rd oldest football association in the world, wales only got its own football pyramid in the early 90s, and 5 teams from wales still refuse to join. this is a wierd situation that deserves its own video i think.
Most Welsh people don’t even care about Welsh football as most support English teams. Not to mention the team that usually wins the Welsh league TNS is actually in England.
Alfie mentions my team, amazing! ... On a "Biggest lower league clubs" video :( Amazing content as always Alfie! PD: we made top 3, guess that's something. Aguante Colón!
2:22 if you think 70,000 Man United fans are gonna go to their games in the Championship then I want whatever you're smoking lmao, it'll be a graveyard.
As a FC Kaiserslautern fan, the past decade has been a rough time, especially with our three year stint in the 3rd league. Thankfully our form has picked up since with our cup run to the final in the 2024 DFB Pokal.
In the Bundesliga are 7 former Bundesliga Champions with Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Gladbach, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Bremen. In the 2. Bundesliga there are with Kaiserslautern, Cologne, Nuernberg, Hamburger SV, Braunschweig 5 former Bundesliga Champions. So in the 1. Bundesliga are more former Bundesliga Champions in the second Bundesliga
He's including the pre-Bundesliga era titles, so with Bundesliga I think Frankfurt would be the only one added, but in 2. Bundesliga there's Schalke, Hannover, Hertha, Dusseldorf and more
Let's see how many Bundesliga 2 teams will be in that list
EDIT: Aw, one per country...
Tbf it'd be kinda boring if it wasn't one club per country.
@@BulletClub444Life Yeah fair enough, also alfie already made quite some videos about 2nd Buli
if it wasnt one per country itd just be 7 biggest 2.bundesliga clubs
@@blazenerr fr lol
yes, was my exact thought lol. I thought it'd be all 2. Bundesliga teams, and it was close enough as a guess. But I do think it's more interesting the way Alfie did it
It's strange, as a Schalke fan, to see my club at the top of the table
Maybe you’ll get a chance in the next season in the 3. Bundesliga 🙃
Jokes aside, I hope you’ll get promoted back to the Bundesliga asap, because you belong there. I’d take Schalke and HSV in the Bundesliga over Hoffenheim and DosenBallsport everyday.
Haha, well good luck. Hopefully we will see you in BuLi soon
How are things looking for the future? My German grandpa gave me an old Schalke jersey a few years ago as he grew up a fan, so I have a soft spot for them and hope they will do well.
@@jameshenderson6715 The last 3 games of the first half of the season were promising. Hopefully we can now play a good second half and perhaps aim for promotion next season.
@@olm8829 keep crying
Schalke's attendance is even more impressive when you consider that in a radius of 60km there are 8 other former or actual Bundesliga clubs - including Dortmund, Leverkusen and Gladbach.
Leverkusen? Tbh kinda irrelevant in terms of fans lol
Not really. The Ruhrgebiet is one of the biggest metropolitan areas in europe and the biggest in germany with over 5 million inhabitants. There are only 3 Clubs in the first or second Division of german Football in that metropolitan area which are Dortmund, Bochum and Schalke. (Gladbach, Leverkusen and Düsseldorf are not part of the Ruhrgebiet but rather of a region called Niederrhein) Also considering traffic within this 60 km radius is utterly horrible with düsseldorf being one of the worst cities to travel to in regards to traffic jams and a very proud and strong regional identity present in and for the Ruhrgebiet it is really not that astounding that Schalke has this high of an attendance specifically if you think about the socio economic factors people suffer from in Gelsenkirchen and bordering cities like Herne, Essen or Recklinghausen. Every Ruhrgebiet-Club currently has a attendance percentage of 93% or above and it says more about the people there than about the club itself. Even Bochum has a 93% attendance percentage while being in last place and only winning a single game so far.
What’s happening with Rot Weiss Essen?
@@Niclasla Still these cities are just around 60km away from Gelsenkirchen. And one should not forget that most of the foreign Schalke Stars actually lived in Duesseldorf while playing in Gelsenkirchen!
There is Bochum, Wattenscheid, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Cologne, Leverkusen, Gladbach, Münster, Krefeld, Oberhausen. So quite the teams there...
Im genuinely convinced you would have an absolute blast researching and talking about HSV. We have had so much insane stuff happen in our decade long downfall and failure to get promoted. Like a board member of ours forgetting a briefcase full of all our financial documents in the local park and it getting leaked, or the frankly disgraceful and (allegedly) definitely corrupt doping ban on our Centre back Mario Vuskovic
I am gonna second this comment
Backpackgate right? Can't believe that was a thing!
it was not definitely corrupt, just accept that he failed the test
lmao @ "(allegedly) definitely corrupt"
Or that time you were graced by gods gift and champion (HW4)
well Schalke is also the club with the 6th most members only behind Dortmund, Benfica, Boca Juniors, River Plate, and Bayern
That's crazy, never knew that. Wow!
@@grossmeister1181 Indeed damn
True but supporting Schalke is a religion.
@@Mike-br8zt football is a religion in the Whole Nord-rhein westfalen
We have more than River and Boca
Alternative name: Top 7 biggest Bundesliga 2 clubs
Sadly, that’s accurate. Schalke, HSV, Kaiserslautern and (previously) Stuttgart and Werder.
One of my earliest football memories is werder bremen giving Cruyff’s Barca dream team a decent game in the European Supercup final in 1993. It was shocking to see them in the second bundesliga.
And as a Liverpool fan, hamburger were the team Kevin Keegan went to to win his much deserved ballon dor and another CL. It’s a shame they are where they are today.
It's always good to, at least see the intro, before commenting.
@konzza You would think that after seeing the intro, I would delete the comment. But I find the joke funny, so I'm keeping it even afterwards
@@lucaslonchampt613 Kudos bro 👍🏽
Definitely i do own up to some commentary mishaps myself.
@@SKa-tt9nm i mean, we´re back to the Bundesliga now and getting into touching distance of Europe again, so things are looking up.
Maybe the opposite next? (Top flight teams that have the lowest attendance relative to their league's average)
That might just be newly promoted teams with the smallest stadiums, not really indicative of the levels of support.
@@supercalefredjalistnot always Bournemouth have by far the smallest attendance in the prem and they've been there for 3 seasons and heidenheim have the lowest in the Bundesliga
@@CFC6788-gs2rlyea but they have the smallest stadium and it’s 99.9% full every game
@@CFC6788-gs2rl in case of Bournemouth they only have a stadium of 13000 capacity so its understandable
Many Portuguese clubs there
I am going to give a shout out for Sunderland as an Ipswich supporter since 68. Sunderland has always been a favourite place to visit as there is a real sense of togetherness there. The city isn’t much but the people are wonderful. They just love their football club.
Portsmouth fan here and yes, I agree with Sunderland. I remember attending the Checkatrade trophy final in 2019 between Pompey and Sunderland and we packed our Wembley with over 85,000 fans, which is remarkably more than attended the FA Cup final in 2022, '23 or '24.
This was for a trophy between League 1 and 2 clubs.
I’m a Fulham fan and I completely agree with you on this. Fantastic club and fans who are loyal to their local team, which personally I think is the best way. I have more respect and better appreciation to fans of their local team than any person who supports a bigger and more prestigious club. Ipswich and Portsmouth included. Ps I hope both sides stay up in 2025
As a Feyenoord fan I agree. I visited Sunderland matches a few times. Nice ferry trip and always a good atmosphere. Their stadium is very nice too.
A lot of German clubs are absolutely MASSIVE
Germans have a stadium culture. Almost all sports draw huge crowds, not just the ones they are good at or some favourite sports. Most sports. There's not really any other country like that in Europe. They will be sitting in a stadium of 30.000 to watch table tennis.
Local fans are over rated, if this guy included social media followings this list would completely different lol. All the huge clubs have massive world wide fanbases. Those the ones that lift you above the rest. You can sell out a stadium of 30k but can your social media accounts get 300 million plus people to follow it like Barca United or Real Madrid?
massive…
@ you know what else is massive?
@@balance1619 Nothing lifts a club higher than bangladeshi plastics & 13 y.o. talahons.
Great Video!
Iam a Schalke fan living in Bottrop so it was extra funny for me 😅
Hope we get back to the Bundesliga soon..
I remember back then when Schalke used to feature in the Champions League... Also when Huntelaar was the striker. Good times. Hope the team returns to where they belong
Germany is so weird. The only country where literal village teams created a couple decades ago like Hoffenheim and Heidenheim are at higher levels than big city clubs with decorated histories like Schalke and Hamburg
Hoffenheim doesn't count...
None of this teams were created ''a couple decades ago'' lol
While I can see the angle for Heidenheim due to the name change when the separate football division split off, I really don't see the "created a couple decades ago" for Hoffenheim (there's plenty of valid critique of this billionaire vanity project). They got big money not that long ago, yes, but have been created way before that. And I'm very sure that we don't want to go down the route of founding of an AG or GmbH for professional football as founding date for a team, it would result in plenty of nonsense, e.g. Stuttgart being "created" in 2017
@@kyj1147it was a slight over exaggeration but you get my point regardless
It's the danger of pride my friend, from someone who supports a sports club similar to Hamburg and Schalke.
The colon stadium has that nickname because in the 60' and 70' they beat bigger teams like pele santos, who was 40 games unbeaten. Colon is not even in a top 25 argentina teams, so that is a big achievement for such a tiny club. Its like if hull wins against bayern munich.
Colón most definitely is a top 25 Argentina team. It sits 18th in the all time Primera División points table (despite only reaching it realtively late, in 1966), and is the team with the most seasons in the top flight outisde of the traditional centers of argentine football (Buenos Aires, Rosario and La Plata), surpasing teams from much larger cities like Córdoba or Tucumán. I'd say it is somewhere around 12th and 16th (depends on what criteria you choose for ranking teams), based on years in Primera, number of fans, trophies, participation in international tournaments, etc.
Also, while the nickname does originate in the 60s (when the team defeated giants like Santos, Peñarol and even the Selección), it managed to survive to this day because the stadium has a history of being difficult for big teams (=elephants).
Creo que se refería a que no era uno de los 25 mejores en el momento en que le ganaron al Santos. En base a su consolidación en el siglo XXI, ahí sí, sin duda está en el top 20.
Y yo que pensaba que era el único boludo que veía este canal.
@@andresgirardo8481 Nah, somos un montón, como 5 o 6! 🤣
@@santiagobauza4257 Ya que estamos excelente lo tuyo en el documental de Copa 90, felicitaciones!
I am genuinely convinced that the 2nd Bundesliga is the best/funnest league in Europe this season. Blows all of the big 5 out of the water. Great teams, great stadiums, incredibly competetitive.
There are also the second Bundesliga teams with Hamburg, Schalke, Magdeburg who won International titles and Cologne who reached 8 european semi-finals. So there are 3 second Bundesliga teams who won an international title. In the first Bundesliga there are with Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Gladbach, Frankfurt, Bremen 6 teams who won an international title so 1/3 of the league. 2 Bundesliga only 1/6 of the league.
Good job Alfie Alf. Love your narration style.
Alfie I‘d highly encourage you to also look at Bursaspor (one of only two Turkish clubs outside of Istanbul to have ever won the championship) as they average around 40.000 spectators in the fourth tier of Turkish football. The extreme level of mismanagement since 2010 could also make for a interesting video
Another great video. Although I'm English living in Cornwall, I visit Kraków every four weeks. Have been a season ticket holder for many years. Fantastic city and football club.
Your pronunciation is usually very good, however, Wisła is pronounced Viswa not Visla. In Poland, the letter ł is pronounced as a 'w'.
Another great rivalry is that between Wisła Kraków and Cracovia, especially considering their location to each other.
Watch out, too, for Wieczysta Kraków, probably the fastest growing team in Poland, on a par with Wrexham, but without the celebrity ownership.
He got the Ł right when he did his video on Widzew Łódź. I went to a Wisła match while on my travels, and although I visited lots of different football clubs, I’ve become interested in Ekstraklasa and also Wisła matches in 1 Liga. Wisła had a strangely mixed 2024, with the combination of euphoria from winning the cup and despair at the league form within days. I think they’ll have to improve to win promotion this season, even though they have Angel Rodado the league’s top goalscorer.
You have the best voice and attitude to narrate those videos. I love your sarcasm and the way you talk about those odd aspects of football. Love your videos!
I was LITERALLY pondering on this yesterday, and look at you Alfie, uploading a definitive answer.
As a Schalke Fan from Bottrop i appreciate your comment at 27:20
was in Kaiserslautern last year when there was a home game, it was like the whole town were going to watch it pretty much everyone were wearing football tops, scalves
Kaiserslautern have a population of 90.000 people if I remember correctly and average over 40.000 people per match in the second division. Absolutely mental.
@@yaneyd93
The numbers are very misleading since Kaiserslautern doesn't only represent the city but the whole state of Rhineland-Palatine (population of 4.1million) and people from all over the state attend to their home games.
Also Kaiserslautern has kind of the nimbus of being "germanys club" due to the 1954 WC winning team was basically made of Kaiserslautern players and some add-ons which is the reason for them having traditionally a huge fan base all over the country.
Don't be fooled by the size of their city.
Yeah, and although Mainz is playing in the Bundesliga for over ten years now, while Kaiserslautern was playing only in 2. Bundesliga and 3. league during this time, Mainz is still completely irrelevant in the southwest of Germany in terms of Fans. Kaiserslautern is the most supported team in two German states: Rhineland-Palatine and Saarland.
Went to Wisła's game vs Rapid, great atmosphere eventhough I was in the kid section
3:54 It's "Pierwsza Liga (First League)" not "I liga" xD
It's just number "one" but written in Roman numeral hence "1" looking like capital "I" :)
In the spirit of Ryuzaki
Day 14 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017
Furthermore, they now regularly compete in Europe, have kept their successful trainer Kjetil Knutsen, and are on course for a new modern stadium that will replace Aspmyra
This is right up your alley, Alfie. Make. This. Video. Happen.
Cheers! 😎🇳🇴
How about a video of the biggest clubs that have never played top flight football I'm sure that Plymouth Argyle and Bristol Rovers would be contenders for that
gas arent that big
Plymouth lol
Italy has had few notable big clubs that ended up going down to the lower tiers Parma' Fiorentina' Sampdoria and most notable of all Juventus but for an entirely different reason to the others
Milan got relegated in the early 80s as well!
Napoli got promoted back to the Serie A in the same season as Juve, if I recall correctly
5 seconds in and Spurs already catching strays
German fans are undefeated on earth
What about universe?
Argentine fans are immense
to bad the same can't be sad about the German army and politics.
@@mineralwater6736its bad that the german army isn't undefeated?
@ yes
Excellent video as always. Greetings from Uruguay!!
Correction: That match between Karşıyaka and Göztepe actually took place in 1981, Alfie.
It's also known as the İzmir Derby, although the last match took place in 2016, as neither team featured in the same league since then.
On Sunderland’s away support; I would hasten to mention that we sell out the vast majority of away days and would like to highlight the 9,000 fans we took to Old Trafford for the League Cup semi final in the 2014 and the two times (Blackpool - New Years Day 2019 and Blackburn - Boxing Day 2024) we took 7,000 to each of those games.
Not to mention our filling of Trafalgar Square the night before playing at Wembley.
What a night that semi final was
A few years back, Dynamo Dresden took 35.000 to Berlin and it wasnt even the quarter fianls of the Pokal. Or Frankfurts 20.000 in Barcelona. The list goes on, Germanys fans are insane
@@abrakadabra2192 english laws suck. They don't let full capacity for 90% of games.
Because you go looking for seagulls to shag in different areas, dirty bird shagging *****
Note to my club Ceará SC that promoted from the Serie B to the Brasileirão Serie A this year, that from the 10 highest attendances of the season, we owned 8 of them!! first being 63.908 surpassing the max capacity of the stadium of 63.903
Proud to be a Sunderland supporter, this season has been beyond all expectations.
26:58 Schalke does have fans from the whole Ruhr area though, which is the biggest metropolitan area in Germany with a population of over 5 million.
I was at the 2nd Division match Manchester Utd v Aston Villa in 1974 with a attendance of 55.625
It could happen next season with Man Utd.
@evonne_o what? Playing Villa? Yeah, almost certainly
did you go to school with Cleopatra?
@14515-un no, I was 10 and I was in the away end with my dad we travelled all over I'm a villa fan , back at villa park their was just over 39.000 ,United won the league and villa was second
I'm 61 this year , I suppose I am very old but I still love the villa
@@evonne_oUnited is not going down even as funny as it may be, not even Everton has gone down and they’ve been shocking for 4 seasons now there’s always worse clubs
Hey Alfie! Just wanted to give some insight regarding the Paysandu situation, which you mentioned ahead of the Athletico Paranaense entry. So Paysandu are used to playing in two stadiums, the Mangueirão - which is state owned - and the Curuzu Stadium - owned by the club. Whenever they take part in big games, such as the local derby against Remo or important matches throughout the league season, Paysandu are used to playing in the Magueirão, registering crowds of 40+ thousands (due to the enourmous 53.000 capacity of the stadium). But on "unimportant" or not that "attractive" fixtures, they choose the Curuzu, which has a capacity of 16.200. That may explain why their attendance numbers fluctuate a lot!
Schalke is both my most favorite religion and drug at the same time. Unique in every way💙
I tend to get caught on a new hyper fixation every couple of years and I explored a wide range of topics through TH-cam and I have to say this is one of the most unique and well researched TH-cam channels within football practically no other channel covers the topics you do or brings up any of these topics.
I'm a season ticket holder at Schalke.. and honestly, the support has only been suffering if the football is unbearable; To make sure that there is a message to the players. The support is amazing, the fan-base is the best in germany, and I can't wait till we promote in the future!
FC Groningen seems to be in the same boat as Shimizu S-Pulse and miss out of the ultimate honor on being in an Alfie Top 7 by gaining promotion. Their average attendance in the 23/24 season in the Dutch Eerste Divisie was just over 20.000 in a 22.500 capacity stadium. Not a total surprise, Groningen is close to the German border.
Still waiting for the Footy Manager save on your 2nd channel 👀 perhaps when FM25 eventually releases? 👀
This is something I never knew I wanted
Should do a video of the polar opposite, smallest top flight clubs
Colon's stadium is called "Elephant's Graveyard" because on 1964 the team managed to beat Santos from Brazil that had Pele as their big star and hadn't lost for 43 matches before facing Colon in that stadium.
As a kid I always thought that the big teams from Buenos Aires had a tough time winning there so the people from Santa Fe nicknamed it like that. They tend to imply that "it was hard to win there" on TV at least.
Great that you mentioned Portsmouth. I seem to remember we had 40,000 at Fratton Park in the late 70s when we were in Division Four!
Jeremy Toulalan. What a shout of a player. One of the best names to say in football.
Sheffield having two teams, who have been mostly in the second or third tier for the past 30 years, getting over 25,000 given the size of the city is crazy. All of the other most supported teams in the division are one club cities.
Thank you for another wonderful analysis: 👍👌👏!
They say that when the training lights go on at Schalke, half the city will soon be there...😁
I've always thought Sheffield Wednesday, Leeds United, and Sunderland should be in competition for trophies. Their fanbases are a huge part of football history and culture in my eyes.
I never get this Wednesday thing. The club has not averaged over 30k since 1968. Not overly impressive for a so called massive club. And no I'm not a blade.
@1oriss from what I understand they've not been allowed to fill the stadium for ages and we're in division 3 in the 70s, but their fans travel like the best. Their away support always sells out and look at their Wembley visits or that comeback from the other year. I remember them from the 90s as one of the most exciting clubs on the up.
@@1oriss Also they're the only multi-club city on the list
One more thing about Wisła Kraków. Their previous owner you mentioned, Bogusław Cupiał, had a dream to bring his club to the Champions League. Back then, especially by Polish football standards, the UCL money was basically a fortune. Yet, despite dominating Polish football for years, and coming close a few times, they never realised that goal. It's a similar situation to many Championship clubs gambling on promotion, when they didn’t hit the jackpot and ended up in deep trouble. Cupiał sold his shares, and Wisła began their decline, which ultimately cost them their Ekstraklasa status. Things only got worse for them since. First season after relegation, they spended heavily on players and wages, and despie that missed out on automatic promotion. Then, they lost in the playoff semifinal to Puszcza Niepołomice, with their goalkeeper bagging two assists. For some context, Niepołomice is a small town in Małopolska, the same region as Kraków, and there are more people watching Wisła's games every week in 1. Liga than there are people living in Niepołomice. And yet, they were the ones who won promotion, and then survived in the Ekstraklasa the following season, with the highest league finish of any other club from the region. And Wisła finished last season in 10th place.
What destroyed Wisła Kraków the most was bringing in a huge number of foreign footballers on the recommendation of football agents. Mostly Spaniards who played there in the 2nd and 3rd leagues. Most drew large salaries and contributed nothing in the match. Domestic players benched. Now they are improving (and more national players) a bit and have a good chance of promotion.
Important context (14:25): during the 2012 Serie B, Paranaense didn't play in the Arena da Baixada due to the World Cup renovation works, instead, they played half of their home games in Paranaguá, a city over 100 kilometres away in the Fernando Sharbub Farah, a stadium with less than 15.000 seats, and the other half in the Eco-Estadio Janguito Malucelli, which, albeit homely and environmentally friendly, was the smallest stadium by far in the competition with only around 4.000 seats.
Also, the average attendance of the ENTIRE competition was also small, at 4.654 per match.
amazing video as always, though, much love from Paraná
Wouldve been nice to mention Bradford City as they are arguably the largest 4th division club in the world. Average 18000 fans and that is without any notable success in the last 5 years and without any visiting supporters to boost the attendance.
A couple of years ago, when they were in League One they had 18,000 season ticket holders. In League Two its dropped to 14,600, that's more than Bournemouth.
Did you not watch the video? Alemannia Aachen averaged over 19.000 in Germanys 4th division
I’m a Cardiff supporter in the same league as Sunderland, and I’m always amazed by their support home and away. They need to be back in the premiership, along with Leeds united.
Day 12
Best 7 Norwegian players in premier league excluding Haaland and Ødegaard(too predictable)
Yet another banger video Alfie!
5 times Norwegian league champions and 6 times Cup champion Lillestrøm SK represent Norway in this video topic, as they got relegated after a dreadful last season. 😳
Looking forward to another year of your content. Best regards.
My brother in law supports Wisla Krakow but i support the little club who had never won a top until 23/24 and were second 2 seasons previous and won there first polish cup twice and were in the finals again when they won the league but didnt do the double and there name is Rakow cheztahowa, great little club with a fairy tail story that am surprised your channel has not picked up on.
This is what I need to find my next fm save
3:52 "finished 10th in the I-liga"
I as in the roman numeral. Not as in literally "i" 😁
Ekstraklasa is the highest league in Poland, the I-liga (first league) is the 2nd highest, confusing I know
he would have known if he had looked at the 3rd tier which is the II liga
@@maciejbala477it’s the same in Ukraine: our top tier is called Premier League (formerly just “The Higher League”), and the second tier is called “The First League”. And we still for some reason have the audacity to laugh at the English and the Germans for calling our second floor a “first floor”, and our first floor a “ground floor” 😂
Well Brits should be awere about that with League One being 3rd Tier both in England and Scotland 😂
Schalke also has the highest attendance in away games. Topping every german club from league 3 to Bundesliga.
True!
But thats just because they are the most amazing club in the world
Bayern has also always the full 10 percent contingent at away games
Wisła have 13 titles, Ruch Chorzow have 14 and are also in the 2nd tier.
"The greatest city in Germany - Botrop!" 🤣🤣🤣 You would not even want to hang dead over the fence in that place.
Clearly, Union Omaha is the biggest lower league club in America. You should do a video on them.
Wtf I live in Omaha and have never heard of them
That Izmir Derby has a competitor for the 2nd division attendance record. The visit of Augsburg to 1860 Munich on 1973 held safety concerns. It was feared that the Gruenwalderstadion, then with a 40k capacity might not be the most secure. The game was switched to the Olympiastadion instead. Just as well. It is estimated that 80k packed the place with thousands more outside the ground. Crushes were reported inside and out, and hundreds had to seek medical treatment. It is a miracle there wasn't a fatality recorded. It could so easily have been a tragedy on the scale of Hillsborough given the numbers.
Watch the Polish 2nd league next year when Śląsk Wrocław (Ekstraklasa runners up last year) will surely be there too - their fall from grace is criminal mismanagement.
Sunderland’s home crowds are clsss. But historically they’ve never really traveled away from home. Has chnaged slightly in recent years but Wednesday and leeds still take more than them by far on average.
Never really travelled? Are you on the pipe mate? Sunderland have had one of the best away supports for decades.
If the topic of large clubs in the second German league interests you, it might be an idea to do further research on how this came about over the past 20 years.
In the end, it’s not about the relative weakness of traditional clubs, but rather about the entrepreneurship and ability of smaller teams in Hoffenheim, Augsburg, Leipzig, Heidenheim or Wolfsburg to execute well with external Money sources and crowd out others while they used the Bundesliga TV revenue to stay on top.
Without further Adu, this was a good watch, thank you.😮
Southampton fc are going to championship next season and will have to go back up to premier League.😅
Common Alfie top class!!
Day 13:- Best spanish players ever in the Premier League.
Here is a new one, Best players with no international team.
Don't know if this idea has been asked before, but something I just thought of is "Seven best players who won a international trophy before they won a club trophy." Not sure if there is enough players to fill it. Though a player who could be added to it is Lamine Yamal who won the euros before he won a trophy with the senior team of Barcelona
I have a Schalke jersey. Every time i see it in my laundry or I am about to put it on to play a sunday game of ball, I wonder wow! Schalke what happened......?
2:47 As a HSV fan, I'm massively disgusted by this decision considering its heritage and being 6th in Germany by number of visitors, with only Schalke and 4 1st Bundesliga clubs being in front.
There should have been made another video about these clubs
alfie, great shout on putting al nassr at #1, totally agree
Hammarby in Sweden had a average attendance of 20500 in 2014 while in the second division. That was the highest including the top division. They were promoted that year and the attendance went up to 25 000. If one of the giants from Stockholm were to drop out of highest they are definitely threatening the seventh spot on this list
I think attendance should have been one of multiple factors considered because if you did this under the same rules with top flight teams Real Madrid would be 6th and Bayern wouldn't even make it in.
14:24 Just to clarify, the average attendance of 4000 during the 2012 Brazilian série B campaign for Athletico-PR was because they were playing their home games in a 4000-6000 seat stadium (that no longer exists) while the Arena da Baixada was being renovated for the world cup. There's a legendary match that ended in a 5-4 win over América/MG in that stadium (Ecoestádio Janguito Malucelli), with the winning goal in the last minute, which was crucial for their promotion that year. I lived like 1km from the stadium and the crowd noise was insane when it happened.
It should also be said that Athletico-PR were Copa Libertadores finalists in 2022 and Copa Sudamericana champions in 2019 and 2021, which adds to the insanity of their relegation last year, WHICH WAS THE CLUB'S 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
The never-ending references to Freddy Adu no matter the subject keep me alive
Sad to see these seven respective footballing clubs being in their respective lower leagues but they can enjoy playing there before being promoted sooner rather than later,good friends!!!
As a solemn promise, i hereby swear if i ever enter the adult entertainment business, i will name my first film Athletico Club Colon.
The first scene will about the ability to expand the capacity.
Although you could make the case that the likes of Deportivo and Malaga were never historically big clubs and actually overacchieved by qualifying for Europe much like when Leicester City won the EPL for instance and have since fallen back to their more natural level
Deportivo de La Coruña is arguably a historically bic club. They won La Liga in the year 2000 and reached the semis of the Champions League in 2004, thrashing Milan 4-0.
Deportivo were able to compete for titles in Spain & Europe for almost 2 decades, so their fall has been sad... But another big historical club in Spanish Segunda is Real Zaragoza, 6 Copas, 1 Fairs Cup, 1 Cup Winners Cup
Brazilian fanbases are extremely loyal. We don't go to matches so frequently for the simple fact of it being absurdly expensive and we are freaking poor.
If it wasn't 1 per country, it could literally just be the 2. Bundesliga
Hello, HITC Sevens! Thank you for the videos. My video idea is something like "What is going on in the entire Premier League", or maybe in European football in general. Why did most or half of the big 6 crumble this season? Man City, Spurs, Man United, and Chelsea and Arsenal aren't doing too well, too, from what I hear. It could be money redistribution (for smaller teams), incompetence, coincendences, or fixture congestion. Have a nice day, everyone!
As a Sampdoria fan in Sweden it is still rough to follow the club.
Hearing my local team getting a mention in the first 40 seconds is rare for me on YT
Surely Sheffield is the number 1 city of football? Wednesday and United, between them, average 50-60k, even though we both spent years in the lower devisions. First football team from Sheffield, first away match involved Sheffield, v Notts County. First use of subs, floodlights, shin pads, need i go on? Sheffield is the home of football ,though both clubs have now been massively surpassed by other English teams now
can we please have a video about the neglected cymru premier league? despite having the 3rd oldest football association in the world, wales only got its own football pyramid in the early 90s, and 5 teams from wales still refuse to join. this is a wierd situation that deserves its own video i think.
Why would they join? It'd take them years to earn as much as they do in 1 season in England, look at the Irish divisions
@@charlier9057 to develop Welsh football Futher instead of pursuing their own interests
@@charlier9057No one is telling them to join mr irrelevant
@@charlier9057 they would get European football
Most Welsh people don’t even care about Welsh football as most support English teams. Not to mention the team that usually wins the Welsh league TNS is actually in England.
I would like to see a Nottingham Forest video one day, given how they’re 3rd in the prem rn.
Day 28 of asking Alfie to make another "Sorry, we need to talk about Hull City" video
Day 9 of asking for a video of the 7 greatest non-league players of all time.
Can you do a video about Beerschot and the Antwerp derby
Alfie mentions my team, amazing!
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On a "Biggest lower league clubs" video :(
Amazing content as always Alfie!
PD: we made top 3, guess that's something. Aguante Colón!
And now a video about the giants in Bundesliga 2 please!
Leeds, Man City, Nottingham Forest, Bristol City, Sunderland; those have all been in League One recently enough.
NUFC and AVFC in the C'ship too.
I think I will chuckle every time there is a Freddy Adu joke. And I know it's coming, but I still laugh.
2:22 if you think 70,000 Man United fans are gonna go to their games in the Championship then I want whatever you're smoking lmao, it'll be a graveyard.
Video idea - the 7 best supported clubs per percentage of population of the city/town?
As a FC Kaiserslautern fan, the past decade has been a rough time, especially with our three year stint in the 3rd league. Thankfully our form has picked up since with our cup run to the final in the 2024 DFB Pokal.
As this Kaiserslautern who survived only because of tax payers money? When I can get some free tickets for my share?
In the Bundesliga are 7 former Bundesliga Champions with Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Gladbach, Stuttgart, Wolfsburg and Bremen. In the 2. Bundesliga there are with Kaiserslautern, Cologne, Nuernberg, Hamburger SV, Braunschweig 5 former Bundesliga Champions. So in the 1. Bundesliga are more former Bundesliga Champions in the second Bundesliga
He's including the pre-Bundesliga era titles, so with Bundesliga I think Frankfurt would be the only one added, but in 2. Bundesliga there's Schalke, Hannover, Hertha, Dusseldorf and more
I cannot believe i just heard Alfie talk briefly about Santa Cruz
You should do a video on the 7 LEAST known clubs that have won a domestic treble.