Sixteen More Leagues — and This Time We Leave Europe

This is the one that finishes the set. You asked the site to grow wider rather than deeper, so first came the continental cups, then the domestic cups, and each time I said there was still more league football on the way. Here it is — sixteen new leagues — and it's the biggest single widening yet.

Deeper into the pyramid

For the two countries whose football I've covered most closely, the top divisions were never the whole story. So the English and Scottish ladders now go down further:

England

Scotland

This is where promotion runs, relegation scraps, and unbeaten streaks that fly under everyone's radar actually live — the story-rich, slightly chaotic end of the game.

Four new European top flights

Four countries join with their top division — three of them already had their cups added in the last update, so now the league sits alongside the knockout:

And now the passport stamps

Here's the one I want to be upfront about. This is a .eu site — the domain says so, and the coverage has always started from Europe outward. But "European domain" was never meant to be "European football, full stop." Some leagues are simply too big, too followed, and too rich in history to leave off a serious stats site just because they're on another continent. Leaving them out wasn't really an option.

So the map now stretches well past Europe:

Two continents' worth of football that millions of people follow every week — South America's giants, the growing leagues of Asia, and the North American game that keeps pulling in names you know. The .eu stays; the horizon doesn't.

Same standard as everything else

Every one of these went through the same process as the rest of the site: data pulled from reliable, verified sources and double-checked before it goes live. I still won't pretend the numbers are flawless — I'd rather tell you an error can occasionally slip through than promise a perfection I can't guarantee. If you spot something off, tell me.

What comes after wider

A quick word on the road ahead, because it's changed. The other fork was always going deeper — player and coach stats, the numbers behind the team. I've spent enough time under the hood now to admit it's a far bigger job than I first reckoned: doing player data properly, and not half-heartedly, would swallow months, and half-finished player stats are worse than none. So I'm not going to rush it.

Instead, the next major update of the year is user registration. An account will let you keep your favourites, so the teams and competitions you actually care about are one click away instead of a fresh search every visit — plus a few other flavours that only make sense once the site knows it's you. It's the piece that turns this from a tool you look things up on into one that remembers what you came for. The groundwork's already been quietly laid — those security headers I mentioned a few posts back weren't decoration — and it's what I'll be building next. Deeper stats aren't cancelled; they're just waiting their turn behind the thing that makes everything else more useful first.

That's the wider push more or less delivered: continental cups, domestic cups, and now a stack of leagues that reaches three more continents. Plenty of new tables to read on a Sunday morning. See you in the data.