Barca, the Spanish club's best first decade of XXI century

Barcelona is the best Spanish team in the first decade of the century, according to a study that analyzed separately and together the various competitions and also concludes that Real Madrid is the best in the league and the Seville Copa del Rey

So says a study by the Research Center of History and Statistics of the Spanish Football (CIHEFE), which has completed its president, José del Olmo Valencia, and published in the November issue of the newsletter of this school soccer . The aim of this study is "objective criteria value Spanish sports clubs" to be completed at the end of the 2009-2010 season, the first decade of the century, regardless of each team honors in competitions he has participated. For this, the study goes beyond the performance offered by Barcelona in the last years of the decade and applied scoring criteria similar to those of the club world ranking, which annually sets the "International Federation of Football History and Estadistics "(IFFHS), which is composed CIHEFE.


Granted a number of points for wins and draws in the Spanish and European tournaments, with no premium for the securities, or the number of matches or rounds played and without any factor beyond the result, as the budgets of the clubs or economic conditions of the templates. Overall, Barcelona is the best club of the decade with 1,630 points, ahead of Real Madrid (1,482), Valencia (1,236), Sport (1024), Seville (1014), Villarreal ( 934), Atletico Madrid (782.5), Mallorca (674), Celtic (652) and Espanyol (634), which completes the list of the top ten. We continue Athletic Club, Osasuna, Betis, Zaragoza and Malaga. The advantage of Barcelona against Real Madrid is based, the study of CIHEFE, in his "best performance in international competitions since the league Real Madrid is by ahead. "" The performance of Real Madrid in the last five editions of the Champions League, which has gone from eighth on any occasion, has been definitive for the Barcelona proceded him.

However, the Madrid team dominates the league with 779 points in the scale established by CIHEFE compared with 750 of Barcelona. They are followed by Valencia (652), Sports (594), Villarreal (581), Sevilla (554), Mallorca (520), Athletic Club (491), Espanyol (473) and Osasuna (468), according to data obtained from 380 matches League played in ten years at a rate of 38 per season. Atletico Madrid, for example, is not among the top ten of the League because, at the beginning of the decade, he played two years in the second, while Sevilla did in a campaign. However, Sevilla are the best team of the decade in the Copa del Rey though Barcelona is the club most times has won this competition in its history. In the Cup, Sevilla has 109 points , followed by Atletico Madrid (97), Barcelona (95), Deportivo and Mallorca (86), Real Madrid (84), Athletic de Bilbao (75), Valladolid and Zaragoza (73) and Osasuna (72).


When analyzing the decade in the Copa del Rey, CIHEFE recalls that "eliminations Real Madrid vs. Real Union (2008/09) and Alcorcon (2009/10) were no less striking than those of Barcelona before the Novelda (2002 / 03) and Gramenet (2004/05). The study also divided the results of the teams in the first half of the decade and the second. In the first half of the decade, was better than Real Madrid, Barcelona and the second, the Catalan club has passed. The club has progressed over Sevilla, who is second best in the last five years, ahead of Real Madrid, while steps have been taken behind Valencia (third to fourth) and, above all, Deportivo and Celta. The fifth remains Villarreal and Atletico has improved after starting the second decade. The study concludes that the hegemony of Barcelona in the decade has not been constant, but is the result of "a growing trend that has culminated in two years evident superiority over their rivals. "

"With a reverse path, Real Madrid has given domain rivals. The only race where he has maintained a regular level has been in the league. His misfortunes butler, with the last five seasons in Europe have weighed heavily when assess the performance of the club, "says Del Olmo. The Valencia and Sevilla have been the strongest alternative to the job, with a greater role for the club from Valencia in the first half of the decade, from Seville, in the second. Atlético Madrid, which began the decade in the second division has recovered some lost ground but is still far from the weight it had in the 60 and 70, shown in the study. This work has been performed outside of the securities made by each club in Europe and in Spain and whose heads the Barcelona track record with 12, followed by Real Madrid (10), Sevilla (5), Valencia (4), Zaragoza and Deportivo (3), Atletico Madrid, Espanyol, Betis and Mallorca (1).