What leagues do you think has the most goals?
I started taking a look at what leagues score the most goals over the past few seasons to help with forecasting and increasing my knowledge the upcoming season. I pulled data for 29 of the main leagues across the world to see where the best league for goals over the past four seasons.
Everyone says the Premier League is the most competitive league, but that doesn’t translate into goals at all. The prem doesn’t even make the top five, actually on features at 7th.
The German Bundesliga unsurprisingly gets the top spot, Harry Kane and Bayern just score a silly number of goals.
I was shocked when seeing Brazil and Argentina are both in the bottom three especially Brazil because we associate flair and attacking intent but it’s a very different story.
I put the full breakdown, all 29 leagues, methodology and the continental comparison together as part of a new football analytics project I've been working on called TheDatabetics.
Which league shocks you most? And what would like to see next?