Best Website For Historic Soccer Stats For Various Leagues?

[mgarbowski]

What I'm looking for is the closest thing to Baseball Reference (http://www.baseball-reference.com/) for all major soccer leagues: Premier, La Liga, Bundesliga, etc., all the other majors and of course MLS. For those who might be unfamiliar Baseball Reference is free and lets you look up just about anything in the history of major leagues baseball: stat leaders in any year, going back to 1871, season-by-season records of every team and every player, all time stat leaders, who won every league in any year, world series box scores, etc. It's much better than anything you can find on MLB.com.

So what's the closest free equivalent of soccer/football generally, and for each league or national grouping of leagues?

 

[Nicholas Constantino]

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Wikipedia has a lot of good information about previous seasons. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994–95_FA_Premier_League

Has all the info like league champion, top scorer, league table, controversial incidents.
There are similar links for every league and the Champions League. Also, there are other pages with just records for each league. So like all time top EPL goal scorers, appearances, etc.

Don't know if it goes as far back as the MLB one you linked, though.

 

[mgarbowski]

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Wikipedia has a lot of good information about previous seasons. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994–95_FA_Premier_League

Has all the info like league champion, top scorer, league table, controversial incidents.
There are similar links for every league and the Champions League. Also, there are other pages with just records for each league. So like all time top EPL goal scorers, appearances, etc.

Don't know if it goes as far back as the MLB one you linked, though.

Thanks. I've been using wikipedia and some other sources ad hoc. I was hoping there'd be something better but maybe not. I realize no sports causes people to obsess over stats like baseball but I thought maybe the soccer tendency to obsess over club and league history might have led someone to create something.

 

[Falastur]

If you specifically want to reference competitions and matches, your best bet is probably rsssf.com. It's layout is extremely basic, but it contains a truly insane breadth of knowledge - any website that can show me the final league table and give me every single result from the 1947 season in the tiny Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba is alright in my book.

If you want competition statistics, you could try somewhere like statto.com, or soccerway.com, or even the websites of some of the competitions you want to research. For player stats, perhaps transfermarkt.co.uk or soccerbase.com.

You're going to struggle to find anything replicating baseball-reference's detail on the money side of things, as most football clubs worldwide don't publicise this info. Any figures you see for salaries or transfer fees are usually somewhere between leaked info and speculative.

 

[mgarbowski]

If you specifically want to reference competitions and matches, your best bet is probably rsssf.com. It's layout is extremely basic, but it contains a truly insane breadth of knowledge - any website that can show me the final league table and give me every single result from the 1947 season in the tiny Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba is alright in my book.

If you want competition statistics, you could try somewhere like statto.com, or soccerway.com, or even the websites of some of the competitions you want to research. For player stats, perhaps transfermarkt.co.uk or soccerbase.com.

You're going to struggle to find anything replicating baseball-reference's detail on the money side of things, as most football clubs worldwide don't publicise this info. Any figures you see for salaries or transfer fees are usually somewhere between leaked info and speculative.

Thanks. rssf.com sounds like it might be what I'm looking for. I'm not that interested in the money side, and not so much even individual players. It's more that I'd like to be able to look up a team and see when they came in and out of different leagues, and then maybe notice they came in second to some team I've never heard of, click on their link and discover they were massive in the 40s and 50s but barely getting by now, then click on a another team, etc.

 

[Falastur]

Honestly, if that's what you'd like to do you're probably best with statto.com. rsssf.com is just a data dump of league and cup results - it has a huge amount of data, but it has poor linking between pages and no club histories, only competition histories. If you want to know about a team in the 3rd division of Rwandan football then rsssf is the way to go, but if you're looking up clubs people have probably heard of before, you're far more likely to get something out of statto.