I can't agree with that one. The problem with cities in Northrhine-Westphalia is that there are too many of them being really close together and all of them have football clubs. There are already 7 teams from NRW in the Bundesliga. The top 3 leagues in Germany would become pretty boring if even more teams from NRW would play in them. Cities like Bochum, Duisburg, Bielefeld, Krefeld and Münster at least have teams in the 2. Bundesliga or in the 3rd Division (Bielefeld being on the way back to the Bundesliga if the season should continue). Not to mention Cologne has Victoria Köln also playing 3rd Division with 1. FC Köln already playing Bundesliga. Of course RW Essen is a club with a long history and lots of success in the early days of German football but they failed to reach that level ever again. Essen might have 600 000 inhabitants but the club itself is nowhere near as relevant outside of the city borders as other clubs with a much larger catchment area like for example Kaiserslautern despite having a much smaller population. It's not always about the city proper but also about the area around it.
@@johnnyxrcfc They're from Gelsenkirchen which is, indeed, near Essen - but not officially part of it. However, both are part of the Ruhr urban area which consist of several cities basically grown together.
It might be possible to find 7 villages with top flight teams in Europe- Hoffenheim in Germany and Dingwall in Scotland (home of Ross County) are two I can think of
For 5 months in a year, Brazilian teams play the state championships, which hindered the devolopment of big teams in Brasília. A lot of small clubs were created, but none became even a local force, since the nearby teams from Goiânia historically fare much better in the national scenario. Gama played in Série A from 1999 to 2002, causing a turmoil when they contested successfully their relegation in 1999. Brasiliense played the Série A in 2006, but became famous for reaching the Copa do Brasil finals in 2002. Gama did put over 30 K spectators in Mané Garrincha back in 98 in the final match of Série B, showing there is unexploited potential in Brasília for football.
Hertha Berlin is actually trying to become a "big city club" right now through their new investor, but all they've done is buying expensive players and sliding down the league table so far
Die versuchen schon seit Jahren erfolgreich zu sein, schaffen es aber nie. Ich bezweifle das sich da in Zukunft auch was ändern wird. Der Verein ist im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen in der Bundesliga einfach uninteressant. Mit dem ganzen Geld werden daher keine großen Namen egal in welchen Funktion eintreffen. Das Ziel muss sein sich in der Bundesliga zu stabilisieren. Und nicht die Top 7 anzugreifen.
@@swagcube5050 Soll ich mich jetzt provoziert fühlen von deinem Satz? Es bestätigt nur meine Theorie, denn wäre dies falsch, hättest du gegen argumentiert. Stattdessen fügst du eine ironische Aussage hinzu. Aber danke für deine Bestätigung!
As a Brazilian I can say that the Brasília best team , Brasiliense, had everything to challenge the big teams in Brazil to win titles,the problem is that during the years they suffered with poor administration and now they apear in the Série D , the 4th tier of Brazilian football,but they played the Série A about 18 years ago
@@formerlymyself568 LLoris - Hernandez - Varane - Lenglet - Pavard - Kante - Pogba - Matuidi - Griezmann - Mbappe - Giroud, the main players all born in france.
Hamburg! We are rubbish and have been rubbish for the last decade! Hamburg is the 2nd largest city in Germany and its two major clubs are in the 2. Bundesliga.
But Hamburg is still one of the most successful clubs in the Bundesliga ever and you won some european trophies. That´s better than any Berlin side ever.
Hamburg is Germany's Birmingham. Both 2nd largest cities in their countries. HSV & Aston Villa have both won a European Cup, both teams had a spell of being the dominant team in their countries, both teams have been rubbish in the last decade and both very recently playing in the 2nd tier. St Pauli & Birmingham City have perenially been 2nd tier clubs with the odd promotion swiftly followed by relegation and both have won very few trophies. Both second city derbies are very hostile.
@@slslskspslba2407 What makes it even more crazy is that HSV and Aston Villa's success and failures happen in the same time period. European Cup: Aston Villa 1982, HSV 1983. Relegation: Aston Villa 2016, HSV 2018
In the case of Spain, there's also the case of Murcia. One of the 10 biggest cities in the country but its team plays in the third division since God knows when
@@imwinningthisone7613 so are Hertha Berlin and some of the teams mentioned in the video. Den Haag is the second capital city of the Netherlands with roughly half a million people yet its football team and fan base is like a small club. The team is usually in the bottom half of the table of the Eredivisie.
Yeah, it's an awful omission. We are talking about the second largest city of a football powerhouse like Argentina. It could easily be the number two after Berlin, and definitely above Zaragoza, San Francisco and Leeds.
@@Mhc-zp9kc yeah totally agree, and this more notorious if you compare it with smaller cities like Rosario or La Plata with really successful teams as Estudiantes, Newells or Rosario Central
Great video again :) Another fun option is Auckland. Auckland is a city of 1.6M people with a highly successful team in the top flight of NZ football, but the only professional team in NZ is in Wellington (the Phoenix) which has a population about 25% the size of Auckland's. The Wellington Phoenix play in the Australian A-League. The NZ Knights used to be an Auckland based A-League team but no longer exist, thus the creation of the Wellington Phoenix.
@@cherrycolareal the video is about cities that should have better football teams. So my point is Auckland should in theory have a better team than Wellington, or at least you would think so!
Ukraine: Mykolaiv. There are some mid-level lower league teams from this city, but they never used to be really good, though one used to play in top flight around 25 years ago. 6:00 I never understood why Brasillia, a city with a good population size, is so underrated in every single way. Even not considering Rio and SP. 6:47 You caught my mind about underrated capitals! I never understood why Instambul is dominating in Turkish sports in all ways. Ankara has Gencherberligi and Ankaragucu in top flight, but they are mid-level (I hope I won't insult Turkish fans)... Biorn has Young Boys at least...
Spot on about Brasilia... That theyve failed to create a competitive team, but the explanation for that is excactly what you mentioned previously. Just about everybody in Brasilia support one of the big 12 clubs (all have stores and bars in the capital) , it pretty much comes down to the fact that people from all over the country poured into Brasilia from 1960 on, and most support whichever region their parents or now grand parents originated from, if their original region is not a football hotspot most will support more midiatic teams notably Flamengo, but also my beloved Vasco as well as Palmeiras, Corinthians and Sao Paulo. For places like Manaus (which should also be on your list, because diffrent than Brasilia its a huge city with much more history) to not even garner local support- no even mid sized clubs that dont have the success but have the local support (like Belem with Paysandu and Remo), as well most prefer to support Fla, Vasco, SP, Palmeiras, Coritnhians.... The other 7 big clubs have predominantly their supporters in their home states.. it is very rare for non Mineiros or Mineiro descendants to support Atletico or Cruzeiro, the same goes for Gauchos with Gremio and Internacional. With Botafogo, Fluminense and Santos they do have some support outside Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo states, but considerably less than Flamengo, Vasco, Palmeiras, Corinthians and Sao Paulo. Also worthy to note down that some of the big 12 games are transferred to Brasilia. On the other hand Brasilia was able to create a competitive basketball team at national level that has spurred local support.
Gosh darn it, even in this seven, my long-suffering Bantams can't beat bloomin' Leeds! In all seriousness though, great video Alfie. Loving the content.
The thing about Brasilia is that in the early days it didn't have quite an "identity" as a city, which is one of the main driving forces behind forming a football club. It was a planned city, occupied initially by politicians and their staffs, and the workers, especially from the Brasilian Northeast (called Candangos). And at that time, with the influence of Rio's media (on the radio, then on TV), Rio de Janeiro's teams, especially Flamengo and Vasco, are very popular there. The city began to find its roots in the 80s, when a generation had alerady been developed, bit it had reflected more on a rock bands movement than on football. But Gama, a team from Brasília, have played on our first division in the late 90s, and still have a relatively moderate fanbase, and the underdog Brasiliense, from a city in the region of Brasilia (Taguatinga) have played one top-tier season in 2005 and won the Brasilian Cup once.
For England I'm frankly surprised you've chosen Leeds. In their history they've won just about everything and just gone through a rocky patch these last few decades. Bristol would have been the city I would have chosen to put in this list. (PS I do like the city of Bristol even though I've only been there once).
@@alfie8041 They currently have one of the most overrated managers in English football in Lee Johnson. They've been one of the bookies favourites for the last 4 seasons but haven't even made the playoffs & currently reside outside the top 6 this season. Teams like Sheff U & Huddersfield have been promoted in that time with a tiny budget in comparison.
Zaragoza is the 5th biggest city in Spain not the 10th. And although the club is currently in the second division (2nd place 1 point away from 1st) they are one of the most historical, successful and laureated clubs in Spanish history.
I think they also made the point that while San Jose has a club in area, the Earthquakes are terrible and SF and all of Bay Area should have a better team...but yeah it didn't do a great job on SF
Yeah I mean the "San Francisco" 49ers pretty much play in San Jose, its all the same area to us here. That said its a region with 7 million people thats also one of the richest in the world that also likes the sport so theres no excuse for the Earthquakes to be one of the cheapest teams in MLS.
Berlin at least has a kind of reason: for long decades it was virtually two cities: East Berlin and West Berlin. East Berlin - the capital of the communist German Democratic Repiblic - did have good top flight football teams, most prominently Dynamo Berlin - while West Berlin was a much less significant city than the unified Berlin was and is, basically an enclave within the GDR. The decades since the re-unification of Germany apparently wasn't enough to produce a strong top tier team - although Hertha did have a rather strong spell... (Also, while I understand your one city per nation policy, I think Hamburg would have deserved an honorable mention - it is larger than most of the cities on the list, and currently neither Hamuburger SV nor St. Pauli plays in Bundesliga 1. Same about Stuttgart.)
bioLarzen BFC Dynamo was a Stasi Club. Many games was manipulated cause BFC Dynamo was the favorite club from Erich Hoenecker. I hope this Club will relegate in the Kreisliga.
bioLarzen Hamburg is a very sucessfull club. They arent doing very well right now but historically they are much better then all the clubs on this list.
Bristol are small clubs though. City can’t compete with Cardiff when trying to retain their players. Surely Bristol City fans must feel down-heartened when they are losing players to their rivals every season. The recruitment team are decent but those players are just leaving after one good season to go to bigger championship clubs.
The fact that Berlin was splitted in two until the fall of the wall 1990. Before that hardly any football star would want to play in a city which was the border between west and east. After the fall there was a big gap to the other top teams and the city wasn't as financially fluid as other cities in the west. The closest that Berlin was to the top was in the early 2000s where they had Marcelino as their star man.
That would be a good video. It would be interesting to see why Hertha, with a good contender for best stadium in Germany and a huge city, have never come close to matching Dortmund or Munich sides after over 30 years of unification.
@@BiloLCFC Herthas Olympiastadion might have high capacity but it's form and distance between ranks and pitch makes it very unatmospheric. (It was buildt by the Nazis at you can see that by it being very outdated)
@rhys Johnson www.theguardian.com/football/copa90/2019/dec/24/football-berlin-capital-city-bundesliga-champions-rivalries this one does a pretty good job at that
If you ever do a part 2 you can consider Thessaloniki in Greece. The second biggest city in the country with just 6 super league wins between the 2 most popular teams of the city
In women’s football, one of the best teams in Europe is a little local club from a small Danish town called Hjørring. I find it quite fun how that little town is home to the most winning danish team and one of the best in Europe
Dresden, my home city, has almost 550000 inhabitants and the biggest football club (Dynamo Dresden, a politically installed socialist police club from GDR times) has now been relegated down into the 3rd league, while the actual traditional club of the city, the Dresdner SC, two times league champions and two times cup winner, now are in the 7th league, which makes it propably the club with the biggest difference between success in the past and situation at the moment in the world.
Palermo played EL qualifying for the group stage some years ago (going by memory, not sure). In the last decade supporters could admire the various players such as Dybala, Ilicic, Cavani, Miccoli, Belotti, Sirigu, Gilk, Emerson Palmieri, Amauri, Abel Hernandez and many others at Renzo Barbera stadium - I wouldn’t agree in stating they did that bad imo
To be honest, as a Palermo supporter, we have been quite shit so far. Never won anything despite being among the biggest cities in Italy, whereas other teams from smaller cities have achieves a lot more (Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Verona, Genoa etc.)
Surely Sheffield should be ahead of Leeds? The city where the modern game was founded and yet until recently has been largely absent from the top tier with two underperforming clubs
Palermo actually did not have finished 11th in last Serie B season. They had finished 3rd, with 63 points, but have had 20 points from financial irregularities deducted, initially, dropping to 11th, and them being further punished with the relegation. But they had a strong team qualified for playoffs.
You're right. Part of the reason is that the SW of France is rugby-mad, so the town hasn't focused 100% on football (Toulouse has a top-notch rugby club)
Well, we are small country. But maybe you could mention Brno. It's second biggest city in Czechia and has about 400k inhabitants.However Brno doesn't have top-flight team. Just FYI. 😁
As an Union fan I was far from surprised to see Berlin as #1 on the list. History, politics, division/reunification and the Stasi screwed the city over for football and so much more. But it was nice to beat Dortmund, Mönchengladbach, and some other good teams in our first Bundesliga season. Also gave Bayern a fright which is always good.
Even though I'm living in Berlin, I had to look up the supposed titel Hertha won in 2002. It was the German League Cup. Now, I know that the League Cup is somewhat important in England. The German League Cup isn't, though. Or rather: It wasn't. Because it's been discontinued since 2007, after only being installed in 1997. No one takes it seriously, and it was completely insignificant while it lastet. Apart from their three titles in the 2nd Bundesliga (1990, 2011, 2013), their only real titles were the German championships in 1930 and 1931. That said, Berlin isn't really a football city at all. 1. FC Union may change that, but they like their role as an underdog. For them, every season in the 1st Bundesliga is a huge success. Hertha, on the other hand... well, nobody really cares about Hertha. They've been overpromising and underachieving as long as I can remember. And that's pretty much all you can say about them. Compare Berlin to other German cities like Dortmund, Kaiserslautern, Bremen, Karlsruhe, Braunschweig... It just doesn't feel the same. Even though some of these clubs haven't achieved anything noteworthy in decades, they're seriously important to their city, and the whole region. You will find no shortage of pubs broadcasting all kinds of football matches in those cities. In Berlin, however, I was struggling to find a pub that would show the match between Germany and France in the recent Euros. When I found one, there were almost as many French fans as Germans. You rarely see fans in their club's gear in the city, you'll never hear people talking about yesterday's match while commuting. Maybe it's a bit different in Köpenick (the southeastern district on the outskirts of the city where Union is located), but in general, Berlin just doesn't have a football culture.
You could make a case for The Hague. The city has one of the smallest clubs in the Eredivisie, despite being the 3rd biggest city in The Netherlands (after Amsterdam and Rotterdam).
Vienna is pretty sad actually. Especially because they have a pretty successful history. There are at least 4 clubs which played a huge role in Austrian, and even in international football in the past (at least for a 4 years) each of them quite special and with a great fan-culture (Rapid, Austria, First Vienna FC, Sportklub). But the worst is, that one of these clubs is really big, and has a very large but especially incredibly good fanbase (one of the best in Europe), and now they aren't even at the very top in Austria since more than a decade. It's so sad because now we have a team like Salzburg winning everything, which no one is interested in. Makes a small league even less interesting..
Your opinion isn't carried by opinion polls, though. Rapid may still have the most fans, but it's also among the most hated clubs (mostly due to the fact that they still get preferential treatment from refs as overwhelming evidence shows) while Salzburg has a pretty good image across Austria (which surprised even me when I did that research). Also, calling Rapid's hooligans "great fan-culture" is some strange Newspeak. And yeah, despite being located in a massive population centre, almost no-one cares about Austria, Vienna or WSK.
Since you mentioned other sports, like with Chicago or Izmir when not picking them, you could have mentioned other Sports which are very popular in Berlin and play a role why Union or Hertha are not that huge, especially when you talk about Gladbach or Kaiserslautern which are Football cities who can't offer much more from other sports. Berlin has the joint most successful Eishockey team in Germany. Berlin is home to the Internationally most successful German Basketball team, which also has the most Members. Berlin has the best Volleyball team in Germany. Berlin has a top Handball team. Berlin has the best water polo team in Germany. There's probably much more noteworthy clubs but i honestly just watch Football and simply searched a bit on the Internet for this information. As of 2016, there were 2400 Sport clubs in Berlin, with 640.000 Members, as of 2015 there were 73 Berlin clubs in their respective Top Divisions and 70 Berlin clubs in their respective 2. Divisions, that should give you the full picture. Berlin is not a Football city, yes we love Football here but it's not dominating everything like in some other cities like Dortmund.
In Spain, I'd add Málaga and Alicante, Málaga did make it to the Champions League in 2012 but are now mid table in the second division and in the case of Alicante, their main team, Hércules fc, have been in the top level many times (although since the 90s they have been mostly in lower divisions) but I don't know if they qualified for a European competition and are currently in 2a B, the third tier of Spanish football, having had their last time in the top level in the 2010/11 season. Both those cities are big, are important seaports, are major entry points to the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
For the German inclusion I would have picked Rostock. The city has "only" around 200000 people living in it, but it is still the biggest city in the noth eastern area of Germany. The closest triü to an actual Bundesliga game would be to Berlin which would be more than 200 km so there would be a large area available to cover for fanbase of the team. Still the biggest club of the city Hansa Rostock is playing in 3rd league since 2012 and was not plaing in first league since 2005. The team won 4 DDR championships and that was it for titles in their history so historically there is also not much going on.
Assuming one of the São Paulo teams mentioned is Santos FC, it is not from São Paulo city, but from Santos, which is a coastline city about 70 kilometers away from São Paulo. They have many supporters based in São Paulo metro, though.
Hertha Berlin wants to be a BIG CITY CLUB. They got 125 million Euro from a person last summer and are even worse than last season. In Germany we make jokes about Hertha. And currently, Union Berlin is bigger and better.
As a Palermo fan I'm surprised we even made this list as an underachiever. I highly disagree. Teams like Fiorentina which you have mentioned in this video who have more trophies than Palermo despite being in smaller cities is because they have kore money and historically more stabile ownership. Fiorentina had players like Batistuta and Baggio because they could afford them. You have to understand that southern italy with the exception of Napoli in general have less money and palermo have had very fragile ownership. Totally disagree that they are under achievers given the italian economy and Palermo historical ownership. You need to understand the Italian hierarchy to know that northern teams in general have the money to compete for trophies
You should’ve chosen Phoenix instead of San Francisco. Phoenix has a population of 4 million and our team, Phoenix rising, is in the second tier. We also are partly owned by didier drogba
There you see, that size in population does not always match with size in football. As you look closer to Germany, you must consider that the football capital is Munich, their 3rd largest city. The 2nd best team is from Dortmund, Germany's 9th biggest city. Berlin has at least got 2 teams at the Bundesliga and Hamburg 2 at the 2nd. But the 4th biggest city - Cologne - has a team wich always shifts between 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. Frankfurt and Stuttgart relegated sometimes, too, but regenerated now. Dusseldorf (7th largest city) relegated last year and is a little like Cologne, rising and relegating on an on and Leipzig (8th largest city) established in the Bundesliga and even archieves Champions League ranks. The last city of the top 10, Essen (10th largest city) is a little poor. They mostly play at the Regionalliga (4th divison) and seldom rise up to the 3rd or even to the 2nd Bundesliga. It is more than 40 years ago, that Essen even played at the 1st Bundesliga. So, you can really say that ranking in football has nothing to do with the ranking of population. It is really just a matter of money: The richest clubs take it all and become richer and richer and the poor ones do not get it, no matter how big the city is they are in.
Hey Alfie! Could u make a video about mental health in football? Just read the biography about Robert Enke and would like to know if and how players, fans, staff and media were learning in the last 10 years after he passed away. Keep up the awesome content and stay healthy, greeeetz from Hannover
@@karlsebastianadvincula6968 which is what this video is all about. The topic is "big cities that should have better teams". And Berlin definitely needs a better team. Hertha is just not good enough. After all, their competition are clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea, PSG, Atletico and Real ... of course Hertha isn't trash, but it's not on the same level as the others.
As Mr T said, Berlin should be better, there are a lot of mitigating circumstances for football in Berlin, but Hertha should be power house in German football.
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I think Hamburg with HSV and St.Pauli should be also in this list, because it‘s the second biggest city in Germany with a population of 1.8 million people and their best soccer team is in the second divison. Berlin has currently even two clubs in the bundesliga and hertha has always a little chance for a title whereas winning the second divison is the biggest thing a club from Hamburg can achieve at the monent.
What about The Hague? It is the 3rd largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Their team ADO have only won 4 major trophies, last of them in 1975. They were even relegated for about ten years and were 17th when the Eredivisie was suspended this year
Wouldn’t include San Francisco the Earthquakes are in San Jose Which is apart of the metropolitan area and a lot of people in the city love the earthquakes and they’ve had some good years before the last few being rough houston is a better choice imo they have local celebrities supporting the team a large Latino population who love the sport and still struggle to draw fans and have been irrelevant for a while
On Berlin: all true what you say, but it is worth mentioning, that in East Germany the club Dynamo Berlin was the state-pushed Nr. 1 for many years, with many championships. The successor of this club still exists in the 4th or 5th tier of the German league (I think).
Trabzonspor...won turkish title 6 times and were ieaders in current season before it was suspended. I think its population is around 700k but compared to larger cities like Ankara and İzmir their success mean something
On the point of Leeds, I think the city's problem is that it's historically been a rugby city, and the people of leeds have hated the club due to the reputation of its fans in the 70s and 80s. Leeds' support comes more from the outer regions than the city itself, hence why pretty much every yorkshire town is 50% Leeds fans and 50% the local team (places like Hull, Barnsley etc.)
My city Haiphong is a big city in Vietnam ,which is the 7th biggest.But the football club in here is really decline since 2017.We havent won the league since 1970,the cup since 2014,the super cup since 2005
@@rorymckie952 Leipzig is Germany's 8th largest city, nearly 600k inhabitants, almost 1 million in its urban area. Second most populous in eastern Germany. It's definitly not small
Oslo should definitely be on this list! Norway is may not currently one of the larger football nations, but has been ranked as high as second on the FIFA nations' ranking, and is the home for well known clubs as Rosenborg and Molde. More than a milion people lives in the greater Oslo area, and about 6-700 000 in the city itself. The only Norwegian Premier League side ("Tippeligaen") from Oslo, Vålerenga, was recently relegated. Teams from the greater Oslo area includes Stabæk and Lillestrøm, but the capital itself is pretty much stripped for clubs at the highest level nationally.
Fun fact: Although Berlin clubs have won a total of 5 German championsips, the most recent championship by a team from a current national capital is Rapid Vienna's German title in '41.
This video is like a shopping list for the Saudi royal family if they wanted to get into football ownership
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Hertha Berlin got a Huge private investor this year :D
Why is there an apostrophe in want
@@emmanuel8487 sorry didn't catch that it's fixed thanks mate
@@callito9846 Union Berlin maybe then?
Can you do the opposite (smallest cities with surprisingly big teams)
Tree lover_68 Tantalising past Hoffenheim, Eibar, Bournemouth Is all I can think of.
@@johnc916 Atalanta
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@@LeirkAnoras Dortmund isn't a small city in the slighest
@@marvelousmoostacheman5560 pardon me 😅🤐
7 best football teams without the Nike or Adidas brand on the shirt
@Chipasha Mukuma Liverpool are gonna have a Nike sponsor from next season
@@anirs8198 but now they dont
Everyone who replied to this comment is stupid
nona evil no man city are puma
@@SuperNoora88 they have Puma
As we all know that hakim Ziyech has had a pre arranged transfer to Chelsea,so can you make a video on the seven best pre arranged transfers?
That's a pretty good idea (・∀・)
Would you include deals like Pulisic?
Basically deals that happen outside the transfer window or pre contracts
THAT_MALLØW_MAN Jesus was a pre contract signing
THAT_MALLØW_MAN Frankie De Jong and Arthur Melo are two good examples
The German city of Essen should have been included. Nearly 600 000 residents but the best club of the city only plays in 4th tier.
... plus Hamburg and Stuttgart.
I can't agree with that one. The problem with cities in Northrhine-Westphalia is that there are too many of them being really close together and all of them have football clubs. There are already 7 teams from NRW in the Bundesliga. The top 3 leagues in Germany would become pretty boring if even more teams from NRW would play in them. Cities like Bochum, Duisburg, Bielefeld, Krefeld and Münster at least have teams in the 2. Bundesliga or in the 3rd Division (Bielefeld being on the way back to the Bundesliga if the season should continue). Not to mention Cologne has Victoria Köln also playing 3rd Division with 1. FC Köln already playing Bundesliga. Of course RW Essen is a club with a long history and lots of success in the early days of German football but they failed to reach that level ever again. Essen might have 600 000 inhabitants but the club itself is nowhere near as relevant outside of the city borders as other clubs with a much larger catchment area like for example Kaiserslautern despite having a much smaller population. It's not always about the city proper but also about the area around it.
Isnt schalke from essen?
Johnny Crossar Schalke is in Gelsenkirchen.
@@johnnyxrcfc They're from Gelsenkirchen which is, indeed, near Essen - but not officially part of it. However, both are part of the Ruhr urban area which consist of several cities basically grown together.
7 small citys in europe with a top flight team
It might be possible to find 7 villages with top flight teams in Europe- Hoffenheim in Germany and Dingwall in Scotland (home of Ross County) are two I can think of
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@@exsandgrounder in belgium you also have one: beveren(Waasland-beveren)
@@ah3750 Not Ajax, Amsterdam isn't even small. I would say Waalwijk
@@ah3750 Ajax is literally in Amsterdam. The capital of Netherlands
For 5 months in a year, Brazilian teams play the state championships, which hindered the devolopment of big teams in Brasília. A lot of small clubs were created, but none became even a local force, since the nearby teams from Goiânia historically fare much better in the national scenario. Gama played in Série A from 1999 to 2002, causing a turmoil when they contested successfully their relegation in 1999. Brasiliense played the Série A in 2006, but became famous for reaching the Copa do Brasil finals in 2002. Gama did put over 30 K spectators in Mané Garrincha back in 98 in the final match of Série B, showing there is unexploited potential in Brasília for football.
Brasiliense played in 2005, not 2006
Hertha Berlin is actually trying to become a "big city club" right now through their new investor, but all they've done is buying expensive players and sliding down the league table so far
To be fair, the drama they provide is pretty much first class^^
Die versuchen schon seit Jahren erfolgreich zu sein, schaffen es aber nie. Ich bezweifle das sich da in Zukunft auch was ändern wird. Der Verein ist im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen in der Bundesliga einfach uninteressant. Mit dem ganzen Geld werden daher keine großen Namen egal in welchen Funktion eintreffen. Das Ziel muss sein sich in der Bundesliga zu stabilisieren. Und nicht die Top 7 anzugreifen.
@@Neverever97970 Du bist mir ja ein Experte ;-)
@@swagcube5050 Soll ich mich jetzt provoziert fühlen von deinem Satz? Es bestätigt nur meine Theorie, denn wäre dies falsch, hättest du gegen argumentiert. Stattdessen fügst du eine ironische Aussage hinzu. Aber danke für deine Bestätigung!
@@Neverever97970 Ich finde Hertha auch uninteressant. Berlin ist 350 km von uns weg und absolut niemand interessiert hier sich für den Verein.
As a Brazilian I can say that the Brasília best team , Brasiliense, had everything to challenge the big teams in Brazil to win titles,the problem is that during the years they suffered with poor administration and now they apear in the Série D , the 4th tier of Brazilian football,but they played the Série A about 18 years ago
7 national teams that currently play the fewest homegrown players.
You can put Philippines national football team in that list.
Ireland most from england
France easily.
@@formerlymyself568 LLoris - Hernandez - Varane - Lenglet - Pavard - Kante - Pogba - Matuidi - Griezmann - Mbappe - Giroud, the main players all born in france.
US maybe
Hamburg! We are rubbish and have been rubbish for the last decade! Hamburg is the 2nd largest city in Germany and its two major clubs are in the 2. Bundesliga.
But Hamburg is still one of the most successful clubs in the Bundesliga ever and you won some european trophies. That´s better than any Berlin side ever.
St. Pauli 😎😎😎
Hamburg is Germany's Birmingham. Both 2nd largest cities in their countries. HSV & Aston Villa have both won a European Cup, both teams had a spell of being the dominant team in their countries, both teams have been rubbish in the last decade and both very recently playing in the 2nd tier. St Pauli & Birmingham City have perenially been 2nd tier clubs with the odd promotion swiftly followed by relegation and both have won very few trophies. Both second city derbies are very hostile.
@@stevenreilly3963 thats actually mad how similar the situation is
@@slslskspslba2407 What makes it even more crazy is that HSV and Aston Villa's success and failures happen in the same time period. European Cup: Aston Villa 1982, HSV 1983. Relegation: Aston Villa 2016, HSV 2018
In the case of Spain, there's also the case of Murcia. One of the 10 biggest cities in the country but its team plays in the third division since God knows when
That one kid that says,” London”
Idk man London FC are pretty bad😳
Bruh why isnt there any premier league club in london. Yet these tiny cities called chelsea, arsenal, tottenham are dominant.
Xtreme 1000 hes joking you twat
😂
"England is my city"
ADO Den Haag: one of the biggest cities in the netherlands and is in the relegation zone of the eredivisie
^^
That's the first division
Jezelf - true, but they have less eredivisie wins than some amature clubs in The Hague
@@imwinningthisone7613 so are Hertha Berlin and some of the teams mentioned in the video. Den Haag is the second capital city of the Netherlands with roughly half a million people yet its football team and fan base is like a small club. The team is usually in the bottom half of the table of the Eredivisie.
@@aidygooner its the 3rd not 2nd city of the netherlands
Last time I was this early, Red Bull Salzburg were still SV Austria Salzburg
Good old days
♥️🤍💜
Bristol needs a mention. We always been shit at football. Least Leeds have had there years..
When I read the title I thought of Bristol straight away
My thoughts exactly. Also just because I’m biased Sunderland.
how is your name Tim Jones but youre that shit at english?
MCFRURRY69 how do you only follow like 10 channels?
Son Rob what the fuck are you on about im subscribed to like a hundred yt channels and what has that got to do with this anyways
Canberra, capital of Australia doesn't have a team in the A-League, never has
Prolly will get an A League team at some point now that they’re expanding again
Same as Hobart, and Darwin, capitals of Tasmania and Northern Territory. Because they have a small population most likely.
I love Sydney FC
@@mishaj2647 Sydney 3 is the next team being added, expansion will most likely be put on hold thanks to COVID-19
Auckland much more so. 1.5 mil people and no professional side in the a league
7 Footballers That Don't Speak the Language Spoken By Their International Team
1) Harry Kane
@@Felipe1977 Underrated comment
@@Felipe1977 Genius. You, not him.
Are there?
Messi
I also include Cordoba, the second largest city in Argentina, the best team is Talleres and they never won a first division title
Yeah, it's an awful omission. We are talking about the second largest city of a football powerhouse like Argentina. It could easily be the number two after Berlin, and definitely above Zaragoza, San Francisco and Leeds.
@@Mhc-zp9kc yeah totally agree, and this more notorious if you compare it with smaller cities like Rosario or La Plata with really successful teams as Estudiantes, Newells or Rosario Central
Day 10 asking Alfie for the All Time Antartica XI.
Wow, 10 days guise! Feels like I started yesterday.
Great video again :)
Another fun option is Auckland.
Auckland is a city of 1.6M people with a highly successful team in the top flight of NZ football, but the only professional team in NZ is in Wellington (the Phoenix) which has a population about 25% the size of Auckland's. The Wellington Phoenix play in the Australian A-League. The NZ Knights used to be an Auckland based A-League team but no longer exist, thus the creation of the Wellington Phoenix.
Didn't Auckland City just win the New Zealand top-flight?
@@cherrycolareal yes, which isn't a professional league
Australia have a professional league which Wellington Phoenix play in!
@@beriligum hhhhh
@@beriligum a league is a league
@@cherrycolareal the video is about cities that should have better football teams. So my point is Auckland should in theory have a better team than Wellington, or at least you would think so!
Thank you for making football content during this time
You
7 best teams with the smallest stadiums
Joseph Tv Sevilla’s stadium is really small
TSG Hoffenheim..
AS Monaco is OK, but their stadium can only have 18.000
Don't forget Stamford Bridge.
The stadium of Valencia isn't that big either
Ukraine: Mykolaiv. There are some mid-level lower league teams from this city, but they never used to be really good, though one used to play in top flight around 25 years ago.
6:00 I never understood why Brasillia, a city with a good population size, is so underrated in every single way. Even not considering Rio and SP.
6:47 You caught my mind about underrated capitals! I never understood why Instambul is dominating in Turkish sports in all ways. Ankara has Gencherberligi and Ankaragucu in top flight, but they are mid-level (I hope I won't insult Turkish fans)...
Biorn has Young Boys at least...
Spot on about Brasilia... That theyve failed to create a competitive team, but the explanation for that is excactly what you mentioned previously. Just about everybody in Brasilia support one of the big 12 clubs (all have stores and bars in the capital) , it pretty much comes down to the fact that people from all over the country poured into Brasilia from 1960 on, and most support whichever region their parents or now grand parents originated from, if their original region is not a football hotspot most will support more midiatic teams notably Flamengo, but also my beloved Vasco as well as Palmeiras, Corinthians and Sao Paulo. For places like Manaus (which should also be on your list, because diffrent than Brasilia its a huge city with much more history) to not even garner local support- no even mid sized clubs that dont have the success but have the local support (like Belem with Paysandu and Remo), as well most prefer to support Fla, Vasco, SP, Palmeiras, Coritnhians.... The other 7 big clubs have predominantly their supporters in their home states.. it is very rare for non Mineiros or Mineiro descendants to support Atletico or Cruzeiro, the same goes for Gauchos with Gremio and Internacional. With Botafogo, Fluminense and Santos they do have some support outside Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo states, but considerably less than Flamengo, Vasco, Palmeiras, Corinthians and Sao Paulo. Also worthy to note down that some of the big 12 games are transferred to Brasilia. On the other hand Brasilia was able to create a competitive basketball team at national level that has spurred local support.
I miss Palermo :(. Those pink kits... perfection.
Make a video about the season when juventus was relegated.
Rodrige N. Calciopili scandal
There are already many videos of Italian match fixing scandal. Go do your own research instead of just waiting for things. 🤷
Aidy Gooner no body asked for your opinion so if you don’t know how to talk to people keep shut
What is mean by relegated
@@Wemotivat.20 OMG why are people so unappreciative these days when receiving good advice... 😜😘😂
Gosh darn it, even in this seven, my long-suffering Bantams can't beat bloomin' Leeds!
In all seriousness though, great video Alfie. Loving the content.
The thing about Brasilia is that in the early days it didn't have quite an "identity" as a city, which is one of the main driving forces behind forming a football club. It was a planned city, occupied initially by politicians and their staffs, and the workers, especially from the Brasilian Northeast (called Candangos). And at that time, with the influence of Rio's media (on the radio, then on TV), Rio de Janeiro's teams, especially Flamengo and Vasco, are very popular there. The city began to find its roots in the 80s, when a generation had alerady been developed, bit it had reflected more on a rock bands movement than on football. But Gama, a team from Brasília, have played on our first division in the late 90s, and still have a relatively moderate fanbase, and the underdog Brasiliense, from a city in the region of Brasilia (Taguatinga) have played one top-tier season in 2005 and won the Brasilian Cup once.
La Liga Top Scorers (not including Messi or Ronaldo) where are they now?
Probably retired
@@hmm4082 or dead
ThatRedHairedDude Luis Suarez Barcelona the Rest is retired
of all time, the second la liga topscorer Telmo Zarra died in 2006
A video of the Best German XI without any Bayern Munich player or Italy’s greatest XI without any Turin and Milan based players
For England I'm frankly surprised you've chosen Leeds. In their history they've won just about everything and just gone through a rocky patch these last few decades.
Bristol would have been the city I would have chosen to put in this list. (PS I do like the city of Bristol even though I've only been there once).
Plymouth and Bristol in England have massively under performed, much more so than Leeds
Alfie's a Hull fan he clearly has an agenda
Tbh I can’t see Bristol city not being promoted in the next 5 years with the aspirations of there owner
@@alfie8041 They currently have one of the most overrated managers in English football in Lee Johnson. They've been one of the bookies favourites for the last 4 seasons but haven't even made the playoffs & currently reside outside the top 6 this season. Teams like Sheff U & Huddersfield have been promoted in that time with a tiny budget in comparison.
What about Birmingham?
That is exactly what I was going to say..
This is one of the most interesting videos you’ve ever made. Just seeing it now, but I love this video!!
Zaragoza is the 5th biggest city in Spain not the 10th. And although the club is currently in the second division (2nd place 1 point away from 1st) they are one of the most historical, successful and laureated clubs in Spanish history.
7 best throw in takers. Long throw trait is the best on FIFA.
Number 1: That Iranian bloke from the World Cup 2018
Lol
Iceland dude in euro 2016
Jonas Knudsen
Rory delap
For the USA I would have said Phoenix, San Diego, or Detroit. San Jose is the San Francisco Bay Area so I would count them as a San Francisco team
No team/city not in America not in mls need mention
I think they also made the point that while San Jose has a club in area, the Earthquakes are terrible and SF and all of Bay Area should have a better team...but yeah it didn't do a great job on SF
Yeah I mean the "San Francisco" 49ers pretty much play in San Jose, its all the same area to us here. That said its a region with 7 million people thats also one of the richest in the world that also likes the sport so theres no excuse for the Earthquakes to be one of the cheapest teams in MLS.
Berlin at least has a kind of reason: for long decades it was virtually two cities: East Berlin and West Berlin. East Berlin - the capital of the communist German Democratic Repiblic - did have good top flight football teams, most prominently Dynamo Berlin - while West Berlin was a much less significant city than the unified Berlin was and is, basically an enclave within the GDR. The decades since the re-unification of Germany apparently wasn't enough to produce a strong top tier team - although Hertha did have a rather strong spell...
(Also, while I understand your one city per nation policy, I think Hamburg would have deserved an honorable mention - it is larger than most of the cities on the list, and currently neither Hamuburger SV nor St. Pauli plays in Bundesliga 1. Same about Stuttgart.)
bioLarzen BFC Dynamo was a Stasi Club. Many games was manipulated cause BFC Dynamo was the favorite club from Erich Hoenecker. I hope this Club will relegate in the Kreisliga.
@@e.l.b6435 Sure, I know, I'm from behind the iron curtain too ;) - but all I said was that they were a top flight club ;)
@@e.l.b6435 *Erich Mielke was a big fan, Not Honecker.
fjellyo32 I was not born back then but my father told me the story so I didn’t got the names
bioLarzen Hamburg is a very sucessfull club. They arent doing very well right now but historically they are much better then all the clubs on this list.
Bristol is a bigger city then most premier league cities. Always amazed me that they don’t have a top flight team.
SaintsAwayOllie they’ve been in the prem for 7 years now.... in my football manager save
It’s cause both our teams are shit.
If you have a big stadium, that doesnt automatically mean you are a top flight team.
Bristol are small clubs though. City can’t compete with Cardiff when trying to retain their players. Surely Bristol City fans must feel down-heartened when they are losing players to their rivals every season. The recruitment team are decent but those players are just leaving after one good season to go to bigger championship clubs.
rpr_fear nobody said it did. He said Bristol is a big city (which it is) and they should have a better team than the 2 that we do.
Last time I was this early, Lyon wasn’t even competing in Ligue 1 😂
You could probably do another entirely separate 20 minute video on why Berlin isn't a football powerhouse
The fact that Berlin was splitted in two until the fall of the wall 1990. Before that hardly any football star would want to play in a city which was the border between west and east. After the fall there was a big gap to the other top teams and the city wasn't as financially fluid as other cities in the west. The closest that Berlin was to the top was in the early 2000s where they had Marcelino as their star man.
That would be a good video. It would be interesting to see why Hertha, with a good contender for best stadium in Germany and a huge city, have never come close to matching Dortmund or Munich sides after over 30 years of unification.
@@BiloLCFC
Herthas Olympiastadion might have high capacity but it's form and distance between ranks and pitch makes it very unatmospheric. (It was buildt by the Nazis at you can see that by it being very outdated)
Berlin has the BIG CITY CLUB Hertha. I‘m a German and I know, what I say.
@rhys Johnson www.theguardian.com/football/copa90/2019/dec/24/football-berlin-capital-city-bundesliga-champions-rivalries this one does a pretty good job at that
If you ever do a part 2 you can consider Thessaloniki in Greece. The second biggest city in the country with just 6 super league wins between the 2 most popular teams of the city
7 cities overloaded with big football clubs \ man successful football clubs
Moscow, London ( I mean Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham etc
Moscow (CSKA, Locomotiv, Spartak, Dinamo), Istanbul (Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbahce, Basaksehir), London (Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, West Ham), Athens (Olympiakos, Panathinaikos, AEK), Bucharest (Steaua, Dinamo, Rapid)
basically capitals
Rodycaz well, Istanbul was a former capital and the largest city in Turkey as well as one of the largest city in Europe.
Mexico City (Cruz azul, America, and pumas)
In women’s football, one of the best teams in Europe is a little local club from a small Danish town called Hjørring. I find it quite fun how that little town is home to the most winning danish team and one of the best in Europe
Dresden, my home city, has almost 550000 inhabitants and the biggest football club (Dynamo Dresden, a politically installed socialist police club from GDR times) has now been relegated down into the 3rd league, while the actual traditional club of the city, the Dresdner SC, two times league champions and two times cup winner, now are in the 7th league, which makes it propably the club with the biggest difference between success in the past and situation at the moment in the world.
Shot mate, I am German and just watched that one for the first time. But you are so onto it with the number 1 spot
Palermo played EL qualifying for the group stage some years ago (going by memory, not sure). In the last decade supporters could admire the various players such as Dybala, Ilicic, Cavani, Miccoli, Belotti, Sirigu, Gilk, Emerson Palmieri, Amauri, Abel Hernandez and many others at Renzo Barbera stadium - I wouldn’t agree in stating they did that bad imo
To be honest, as a Palermo supporter, we have been quite shit so far. Never won anything despite being among the biggest cities in Italy, whereas other teams from smaller cities have achieves a lot more (Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Verona, Genoa etc.)
Underrated channel
Surely Sheffield should be ahead of Leeds? The city where the modern game was founded and yet until recently has been largely absent from the top tier with two underperforming clubs
Palermo actually did not have finished 11th in last Serie B season. They had finished 3rd, with 63 points, but have had 20 points from financial irregularities deducted, initially, dropping to 11th, and them being further punished with the relegation. But they had a strong team qualified for playoffs.
Toulouse in france should be included, its the 4th largest city in france and its team is dead last of the ligue 1
I thought ligue 1 was the top flight?
@@adamcottrell6454 it is and Toulouse is in last place and hasnt won a game in several months
You're right. Part of the reason is that the SW of France is rugby-mad, so the town hasn't focused 100% on football (Toulouse has a top-notch rugby club)
Have you ever done a video on 7 clubs with unique traditions that are really interesting or cool? If not, I would like to see a video on that.
Thanks for FM20 Ideas now gonna manager Berlin
you really tried to pronounce the turkish names correctly, big respect
Well, we are small country. But maybe you could mention Brno. It's second biggest city in Czechia and has about 400k inhabitants.However Brno doesn't have top-flight team. Just FYI. 😁
Brno reminds me of Johan Gregor Mendel the father of genetics ig 🤧😷
Prostě Brno😂
Too bad they they’re not doing as good as their hockey counterparts kometa.
Not the largest in the UK, but Cardiff, not just saying this as a rival fan but. If they can barely stay in the championship then what are they doing?
As an Union fan I was far from surprised to see Berlin as #1 on the list. History, politics, division/reunification and the Stasi screwed the city over for football and so much more. But it was nice to beat Dortmund, Mönchengladbach, and some other good teams in our first Bundesliga season. Also gave Bayern a fright which is always good.
I just think it’s funny how Manchester and Liverpool are considered separate cities. 😂
Video Idea:
Germanys 2014 worldcup squad, where are they now?
Ibims 1Julian this has been done
Great video, keep it up! 👍🏻
Thanks Yusuf, I'll do my best!
Even though I'm living in Berlin, I had to look up the supposed titel Hertha won in 2002. It was the German League Cup. Now, I know that the League Cup is somewhat important in England. The German League Cup isn't, though. Or rather: It wasn't. Because it's been discontinued since 2007, after only being installed in 1997. No one takes it seriously, and it was completely insignificant while it lastet. Apart from their three titles in the 2nd Bundesliga (1990, 2011, 2013), their only real titles were the German championships in 1930 and 1931.
That said, Berlin isn't really a football city at all. 1. FC Union may change that, but they like their role as an underdog. For them, every season in the 1st Bundesliga is a huge success. Hertha, on the other hand... well, nobody really cares about Hertha. They've been overpromising and underachieving as long as I can remember. And that's pretty much all you can say about them.
Compare Berlin to other German cities like Dortmund, Kaiserslautern, Bremen, Karlsruhe, Braunschweig... It just doesn't feel the same. Even though some of these clubs haven't achieved anything noteworthy in decades, they're seriously important to their city, and the whole region. You will find no shortage of pubs broadcasting all kinds of football matches in those cities.
In Berlin, however, I was struggling to find a pub that would show the match between Germany and France in the recent Euros. When I found one, there were almost as many French fans as Germans. You rarely see fans in their club's gear in the city, you'll never hear people talking about yesterday's match while commuting. Maybe it's a bit different in Köpenick (the southeastern district on the outskirts of the city where Union is located), but in general, Berlin just doesn't have a football culture.
You could make a case for The Hague. The city has one of the smallest clubs in the Eredivisie, despite being the 3rd biggest city in The Netherlands (after Amsterdam and Rotterdam).
Alan Pardew is manager lol
Oliver Leonard says nothing, they are still shite
Vienna is pretty sad actually. Especially because they have a pretty successful history. There are at least 4 clubs which played a huge role in Austrian, and even in international football in the past (at least for a 4 years) each of them quite special and with a great fan-culture (Rapid, Austria, First Vienna FC, Sportklub).
But the worst is, that one of these clubs is really big, and has a very large but especially incredibly good fanbase (one of the best in Europe), and now they aren't even at the very top in Austria since more than a decade. It's so sad because now we have a team like Salzburg winning everything, which no one is interested in. Makes a small league even less interesting..
Your opinion isn't carried by opinion polls, though. Rapid may still have the most fans, but it's also among the most hated clubs (mostly due to the fact that they still get preferential treatment from refs as overwhelming evidence shows) while Salzburg has a pretty good image across Austria (which surprised even me when I did that research).
Also, calling Rapid's hooligans "great fan-culture" is some strange Newspeak. And yeah, despite being located in a massive population centre, almost no-one cares about Austria, Vienna or WSK.
Your idea is better than mine but I still appreciate the credit!
Since you mentioned other sports, like with Chicago or Izmir when not picking them, you could have mentioned other Sports which are very popular in Berlin and play a role why Union or Hertha are not that huge, especially when you talk about Gladbach or Kaiserslautern which are Football cities who can't offer much more from other sports.
Berlin has the joint most successful Eishockey team in Germany.
Berlin is home to the Internationally most successful German Basketball team, which also has the most Members.
Berlin has the best Volleyball team in Germany.
Berlin has a top Handball team.
Berlin has the best water polo team in Germany.
There's probably much more noteworthy clubs but i honestly just watch Football and simply searched a bit on the Internet for this information. As of 2016, there were 2400 Sport clubs in Berlin, with 640.000 Members, as of 2015 there were 73 Berlin clubs in their respective Top Divisions and 70 Berlin clubs in their respective 2. Divisions, that should give you the full picture. Berlin is not a Football city, yes we love Football here but it's not dominating everything like in some other cities like Dortmund.
In Spain, I'd add Málaga and Alicante, Málaga did make it to the Champions League in 2012 but are now mid table in the second division and in the case of Alicante, their main team, Hércules fc, have been in the top level many times (although since the 90s they have been mostly in lower divisions) but I don't know if they qualified for a European competition and are currently in 2a B, the third tier of Spanish football, having had their last time in the top level in the 2010/11 season. Both those cities are big, are important seaports, are major entry points to the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
I’ve just realised that he must right a whole essay for every vid
Write*
@Gaara yeah you're completely write!
Pratham Mrabhakar omg🤣
Its spelt rite smh get an education
@@bluelegend7097 rayt*
For the German inclusion I would have picked Rostock. The city has "only" around 200000 people living in it, but it is still the biggest city in the noth eastern area of Germany. The closest triü to an actual Bundesliga game would be to Berlin which would be more than 200 km so there would be a large area available to cover for fanbase of the team. Still the biggest club of the city Hansa Rostock is playing in 3rd league since 2012 and was not plaing in first league since 2005. The team won 4 DDR championships and that was it for titles in their history so historically there is also not much going on.
7 players that play different positions for their countries
Toby Alderweireld
Alaba and Raphael Guerreiro
they play left-defender in one place and centre midflielder in another
Jan Vertonghen played CB and LB, Kyle Walker played CB for England, Tin Jedvaj played LB inspite of being a CB for Croatia
Griesmann played as a cam at the world cup
Messi (he has played as a Cam, St,Cf and Rw)
Assuming one of the São Paulo teams mentioned is Santos FC, it is not from São Paulo city, but from Santos, which is a coastline city about 70 kilometers away from São Paulo. They have many supporters based in São Paulo metro, though.
0:23 Savage roast of Arsenal and Chelsea right there
And spurs
Anvit and Palace
Nathan 22 and West Ham
@@robinshen1679 and fulham
A correction: 3 football clubs in São Paulo. The fourth big club is in Santos,a city in the Shore of São Paulo state
Hertha Berlin wants to be a BIG CITY CLUB. They got 125 million Euro from a person last summer and are even worse than last season. In Germany we make jokes about Hertha. And currently, Union Berlin is bigger and better.
Laisito You‘re right currently better but Never bigger than the Old Lady
Venox G.B I think Union has currently even more members, but I‘m not sure.
As a Palermo fan I'm surprised we even made this list as an underachiever. I highly disagree. Teams like Fiorentina which you have mentioned in this video who have more trophies than Palermo despite being in smaller cities is because they have kore money and historically more stabile ownership. Fiorentina had players like Batistuta and Baggio because they could afford them. You have to understand that southern italy with the exception of Napoli in general have less money and palermo have had very fragile ownership. Totally disagree that they are under achievers given the italian economy and Palermo historical ownership. You need to understand the Italian hierarchy to know that northern teams in general have the money to compete for trophies
Can you make a video on the journey of a club (formation to top flight)
I'm a resident and supporter of Leeds and I'd definitely agree with you on Leeds
You should’ve chosen Phoenix instead of San Francisco. Phoenix has a population of 4 million and our team, Phoenix rising, is in the second tier. We also are partly owned by didier drogba
Yes but Phoenix is doing good in the second tier. Deserve an MLS team.
Jack Cee I know but we have a population of 4 million. That’s the population of Croatia😅.
Do the same seven for countries please. Love your videos btw.
Last time I was this early, Arjen Robben still had hair
This channel didn't exist when robben had hair u pleb
R/whoosh
There you see, that size in population does not always match with size in football. As you look closer to Germany, you must consider that the football capital is Munich, their 3rd largest city. The 2nd best team is from Dortmund, Germany's 9th biggest city. Berlin has at least got 2 teams at the Bundesliga and Hamburg 2 at the 2nd. But the 4th biggest city - Cologne - has a team wich always shifts between 1st and 2nd Bundesliga. Frankfurt and Stuttgart relegated sometimes, too, but regenerated now. Dusseldorf (7th largest city) relegated last year and is a little like Cologne, rising and relegating on an on and Leipzig (8th largest city) established in the Bundesliga and even archieves Champions League ranks.
The last city of the top 10, Essen (10th largest city) is a little poor. They mostly play at the Regionalliga (4th divison) and seldom rise up to the 3rd or even to the 2nd Bundesliga. It is more than 40 years ago, that Essen even played at the 1st Bundesliga. So, you can really say that ranking in football has nothing to do with the ranking of population. It is really just a matter of money: The richest clubs take it all and become richer and richer and the poor ones do not get it, no matter how big the city is they are in.
Haha London. There's a chance none of them will play Champions League football next season 😂😂😂
Nah that not true. 2 might even be playing, possibly 3
Lololl.o
lol chelsea is in the final
Well this comment aged terribly. 😋
Hey Alfie! Could u make a video about mental health in football? Just read the biography about Robert Enke and would like to know if and how players, fans, staff and media were learning in the last 10 years after he passed away.
Keep up the awesome content and stay healthy, greeeetz from Hannover
Hertha isn’t that bad. They’ve been able to qualify to the Europa League on several occasions.
for the size of Berlin they are bad
Now compare that to the success of London, Paris or Madrid for example.
Yeah you can say that, but they definitely aren’t trash. More like on the bad side of average.
@@karlsebastianadvincula6968 which is what this video is all about. The topic is "big cities that should have better teams". And Berlin definitely needs a better team. Hertha is just not good enough. After all, their competition are clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea, PSG, Atletico and Real ... of course Hertha isn't trash, but it's not on the same level as the others.
As Mr T said, Berlin should be better, there are a lot of mitigating circumstances for football in Berlin, but Hertha should be power house in German football.
FC Akron Tolyatti (Russian: ФК «Акрон» Тольятти) is a Russian professional football club based in Tolyatti founded in 2018. In June 2019, it was confirmed that the club will enter the Russian Professional Football League in the 2019-20 season.
On 15 May 2020, the 2019-20 PFL season was abandoned due to COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. As Akron was leading in their PFL zone at the time, they were promoted to the second-tier FNL for the 2020-21 season. The city has 707,408 inhabitants and this club is it biggest team.
Zaragoza is a beautiful city I think their club will compete more in the future.
I think Hamburg with HSV and St.Pauli should be also in this list, because it‘s the second biggest city in Germany with a population of 1.8 million people and their best soccer team is in the second divison. Berlin has currently even two clubs in the bundesliga and hertha has always a little chance for a title whereas winning the second divison is the biggest thing a club from Hamburg can achieve at the monent.
Edinburgh. Hearts and Hibs are enteral under-achievers, Edinburgh City are tiny.
edinburgh is like ankara both of them are capitals but ohter big cities glasgow and istanbul have better teams
What about The Hague? It is the 3rd largest city in the Netherlands after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Their team ADO have only won 4 major trophies, last of them in 1975. They were even relegated for about ten years and were 17th when the Eredivisie was suspended this year
8:57 Pretty sure that this isnt in Sicily
Seeing Leeds pop up gave a good little giggle, keep up the good content 👍🏼
Wouldn’t include San Francisco the Earthquakes are in San Jose Which is apart of the metropolitan area and a lot of people in the city love the earthquakes and they’ve had some good years before the last few being rough houston is a better choice imo they have local celebrities supporting the team a large Latino population who love the sport and still struggle to draw fans and have been irrelevant for a while
On Berlin: all true what you say, but it is worth mentioning, that in East Germany the club Dynamo Berlin was the state-pushed Nr. 1 for many years, with many championships. The successor of this club still exists in the 4th or 5th tier of the German league (I think).
Seven small Citys with big football Clubs
Watford and Hoffenheim are perfect
Nathan 22 they aren't big clubs
Trabzonspor...won turkish title 6 times and were ieaders in current season before it was suspended. I think its population is around 700k but compared to larger cities like Ankara and İzmir their success mean something
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On the point of Leeds, I think the city's problem is that it's historically been a rugby city, and the people of leeds have hated the club due to the reputation of its fans in the 70s and 80s. Leeds' support comes more from the outer regions than the city itself, hence why pretty much every yorkshire town is 50% Leeds fans and 50% the local team (places like Hull, Barnsley etc.)
What about Plymouth? We have a huge city and never really been a force in football.
You are quite a big city but no where near as big as Leeds or burmingham
If I included Plymouth I'd have to include Bradford. They're below you in the league and the city is about 2x the size of Plymouth.
@@HITCSevens Fair point. Great video. keep up the amazing work.
At least Bradford, like Bristol, have played in rhe top flight
My city Haiphong is a big city in Vietnam ,which is the 7th biggest.But the football club in here is really decline since 2017.We havent won the league since 1970,the cup since 2014,the super cup since 2005
Do the opposite now. 7 small cities with really good football teams.
The Gaming Boi I think they might have already done that video and I seem to remember like RB Leipzig being like No 1
@@rorymckie952 Leipzig small?
@@rorymckie952 Leipzig is Germany's 8th largest city, nearly 600k inhabitants, almost 1 million in its urban area. Second most populous in eastern Germany. It's definitly not small
Oslo should definitely be on this list! Norway is may not currently one of the larger football nations, but has been ranked as high as second on the FIFA nations' ranking, and is the home for well known clubs as Rosenborg and Molde. More than a milion people lives in the greater Oslo area, and about 6-700 000 in the city itself. The only Norwegian Premier League side ("Tippeligaen") from Oslo, Vålerenga, was recently relegated. Teams from the greater Oslo area includes Stabæk and Lillestrøm, but the capital itself is pretty much stripped for clubs at the highest level nationally.
Zaragoza is the fifth biggest city of Spain regarding population*
Fun fact: Although Berlin clubs have won a total of 5 German championsips, the most recent championship by a team from a current national capital is Rapid Vienna's German title in '41.