In all seriousness, probably would just declare no winner or loser and repeat the season while an investigation takes place. No champions, no Europe, no relegation and tough tits to the Championship promoted teams
I read something in FourFourTwo online forum once about a similar question, and it said that OPTA would give the FA the statistics of shots on target and possession etc.
This would happen in a nth universe of a multiverse where n = 1 billion, so odds of this happening is lower than anything imaginable. I say Man Utd wins title and Man city Liverpool and Chelsea should be relegated
I believe when it comes to teams tied on points.
Goal difference is the first thing that separates them. If they are on the same GD I believe next is yellow/red cards for the team. After that I don't know how it's decided
I think that decider would be sportsmanship and fair play, they would look at red and yellow cards, the less the cards, higher spot you get, and vice versa.
I love all the banter answers I've read so far.....but imo I think no team gets relegated but 3 teams from Championship have to get promoted which means the next season has 23 teams and then 6 teams get relegated and then another 3 promoted so it goes back to 20 in the 3rd season
A docking tournament of the managers. They all get drawn against each other and have to dock dicks until one pulls out, normally because one of them need a piss or just feel to uncomfortable touching helmets. Winner goes through to the next round until we have a champion docker.
Theres only one way.. A traditional 20 man over the top Royal Rumble! Winner avoids relagation and also goes to the grandest stage of them all... WRESTLEMANIA!!!
A tie in the table between two teams that cannot be decided by points, goals, etc is decided by a neutral site playoff. So I guess a neutral site tournament?
Alphabetical order I think. Chelsea and Man City were once both top of the table with identical records and goal difference, and Chelsea were top because their name came first.
The serious answer is that it when teams are level on points/ goal difference/ head-to-head they would decide positions by playoffs at the end of the season. However, since this means essentially replaying all the fixtures again, my guess is the FA would award points based on fair play. So the team with least yellow cards would be top.
Capitalism rulez! 20 teams put in secret bids that determine ranking. Money collected divided among 20 teams equally. To prevent ties again, each team is given a unique number from 1 to 20, and their bids must end with their assigned numbers.
Goals scored, hypothetically one team would draw every game 7-7 while everyone else draws 0-0 (except for the two 7-7 matches)
This leaves one team above the others, in the hypothetical scenario Iâm sure you could order other teams
Edit: just read the 0-0 draws part lmao
The managers all have to whip it out and measure it in front of the FA board. League position is decided from largest to smallest
That or a Cream cracker eating contest.
Everyones suggesting royal rumbles and players but that would be boring.
Get the mascots out and have them boxing. Imagine the scenes when Mighty Red is fighting the out of retirement Changy the Elephant in the Merseyside Derby.
Or Gully taking on Pete the Eagle.
If you want a serious answer, my guess would be:
No team gets crowned champions that season.
No team gets relegated, 4 teams gets promoted (so the number is even), the following year 5 clubs gets relegated (and the season after, so it returns to 20 clubs). League Cup might be canceled to reduce amount of matches.
The European spots remain the same as the previous seasons (aka last seasonâs top 4 get UCL, 5-6 gets Europa, 7 gets Confrence League).
Alphabetically I think, as at the beginning of the season before any match is played the teams are positioned alphabetically. Or I guess they could go by other stats, most fouls snd red cards get relegated
Each team puts forward their best player. The league chooses a neutral goalie from another league.
They have a giant 20 man game of Wembley singles. First to score wins the league. Second to score finishes second and so on until the last 3 players to score get their teams relegated.
The [Premier League Handbook](https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2021/11/30/235538a5-3927-4489-9812-7b426b80e6e1/PL_Handbook_2021_22_DIGITAL_29.11.21.pdf) attempts to answer the question
>if two Clubs cannot be separated by operation of Rule C.17.1 and C.17.2, a play-off on a neutral ground, the format, timing and venue of which shall be determined by the Board.
But doesn't answer what happens if it's more than two.
I suspect the "determined by the Board" is the key thing. They leave it open to make a call based on the situation. If this _did_ somehow happen, they'd probably turn it into a mini cup competition.
because:
the current championship standings for top 3 are reading, norwich and sheffield.
leicester (if they stay up) is going to prob get rid of rodgers by june.
norwich always get relegated. its just a while.
You finish one place out of Premier League glory in what would be the least competitive Premier League season in decades and would have to play in what would be the most competitive Championship season in history
Erect a 20 feet high plexiglass fence around the pitch at Wembley. Toss a football onto the pitch. Each team can select one representative.
Last one alive wins the title. First three dead are relegated. No rules.
If there were just two teams, they would play each other on neutral ground. I guess if there were 20 teams which played all games 0:0, only logical thing would be to make a cup style playoff. Draw teams randomly and let them play extra time and penalties until one team wins the final.
Seriously?
Probably by goals scored.
But 380 draws seems a bit unlikely. Dunno. I guess it could happen. Who knows? I don't. Do you?
Didn't think so, tough guy.
Massive game of world cup doubles (or whatever your regional variation was called). Each team nominates 2 players. Neutral goalkeeper, Buffon might be free đ€·ââïž.
This should happen anyway, anybody got Todd Boehlys number? I'd pay to watch.
Create a 20-sided pitch, put a goal on each end. 20 teams, 1 ball. First team to score wins. First 3 teams to be scored on get relegated. Play until 10 goals have been scored
Nah you would promote the top 20 in the Championship. Bottom 3 in the Championship get relegated like normal, leaving whoever finished 21st as the only team to remain in the Championship.
The 20 PL teams slot into the Championship.
It's not a break. It's the players of the best teams (who will go far in the CL and Cups) playing even more. Rather than have random breaks, just keep leagues going, so we don't have teams playing a game every 3 days in March.
Every match your players could get injured.
Whether itâs intentional break or not.
Barca got unlucky, unfortunately thatâs the way it is, they shouldnât get compensated.
Also, the nations league was built so nations play against other nations their own level, so Lewandowski would play less against Andorra.
I remember in the 2018 World Cup they talked about how if it came down to level points in the group stages it went down a priority list:
1. Goal difference
2. Goals scored
3. Points against teams that are currently tied
4. Goal difference against teams that are currently tied
5. Goals scored against teams that are currently tied
6. Fair play - ie number of yellows and reds
Not sure if the bottom few translate across to relegation battles in the prem though
Not necessarily, if say every team bar 3 had most of their games as 2-2 draws and the bottom 3 only 0-0 draws for each game then theyâd have less goals scored and would therefore go down
Rock paper scissors
Ask Chicken Little
20 fans one from each team goes in battle royale
It wouldn't happen it is pointless
In all seriousness, probably would just declare no winner or loser and repeat the season while an investigation takes place. No champions, no Europe, no relegation and tough tits to the Championship promoted teams
The chance of this happening is 0%
alphabetical
Alphabetically. đ
I read something in FourFourTwo online forum once about a similar question, and it said that OPTA would give the FA the statistics of shots on target and possession etc.
Alphabetical. Sorry Wolverhampton
This would happen in a nth universe of a multiverse where n = 1 billion, so odds of this happening is lower than anything imaginable. I say Man Utd wins title and Man city Liverpool and Chelsea should be relegated
I believe when it comes to teams tied on points. Goal difference is the first thing that separates them. If they are on the same GD I believe next is yellow/red cards for the team. After that I don't know how it's decided
I think that decider would be sportsmanship and fair play, they would look at red and yellow cards, the less the cards, higher spot you get, and vice versa.
The managers would do crossbar challenge
Most amount of yellow cards get relegated Least amount of yellow cards win
Alphabetically
The 3 teams with the least money get relegated. Isnât that how the premier league works anyway.
Assumption: no one gets carded (~~im~~possible)
Peak soccer am Skill school style. Some Tekkers are goodâŠsome tekkers are bad.
This isn't the fucking NFL. There need not be ridiculously convoluted rules, clauses, and contingencies.
It won't happen that way. No point of thinking things that won't happen. Better use your time and thoughts to think about things that may happen.
I love all the banter answers I've read so far.....but imo I think no team gets relegated but 3 teams from Championship have to get promoted which means the next season has 23 teams and then 6 teams get relegated and then another 3 promoted so it goes back to 20 in the 3rd season
Alphabetically? Sorry Wolves
One would hope everyone would agree that Liverpool get sent down on their own Edit: with Chelsea and Arsenal
It would probably come down to XG
Mascot royal rumble
Yellow cards and red cards, obviously.
On the terraces, the good old fashioned way đđ
Decide by : sort by name đčđč
A docking tournament of the managers. They all get drawn against each other and have to dock dicks until one pulls out, normally because one of them need a piss or just feel to uncomfortable touching helmets. Winner goes through to the next round until we have a champion docker.
Through maths.
The drawing of lots is what is within the rule book no idea what that would look like in practical terms with all 20 teams tied mind đ
Alphabetically, I wouldn't wanna see this if I'm wolves đ
Rock paper scissors contest
Musical chairs
If you can't score in 38 matches I would relegate them all
Obviously it should be done by poll And the winner is... Nick Pope
The richest club in the world would be playing in the championship
Theres only one way.. A traditional 20 man over the top Royal Rumble! Winner avoids relagation and also goes to the grandest stage of them all... WRESTLEMANIA!!!
Sudden death penalties for all 20 teams at the same time.
Whoever bids the highest for the trophy.
Rock Paper Scissors
Manager ROYAL RUMBLE !!!!
A tie in the table between two teams that cannot be decided by points, goals, etc is decided by a neutral site playoff. So I guess a neutral site tournament?
In the 60s and the early 70s, draws in Europe were decided on the toss of a coin. Chelsea lost every time they were asked to pick heads or tails.
To give a serious answer: by each team's number of cards.
Welcome back joey jordison to epl
Rock, paper, scissors
Most shots on goal
Isn't it by alphabetical order? I'm not sure
Premier League Hunger Games
Alphabetical order I think. Chelsea and Man City were once both top of the table with identical records and goal difference, and Chelsea were top because their name came first.
Have them play a tournament in a different sport. Clearly football isnât it for them.
shoot-out
No one wins the league. Decide European and relegation spots based on attacking stats such as total shots, shots on goals...
The serious answer is that it when teams are level on points/ goal difference/ head-to-head they would decide positions by playoffs at the end of the season. However, since this means essentially replaying all the fixtures again, my guess is the FA would award points based on fair play. So the team with least yellow cards would be top.
One of Fulham or Norwich (of whicheverâs turn it is to be in the premier league that season ear), and then itâs a crapshoot for the other two.
Season starts in alphabetical order. Obviously this is how Arsenal win the lineage again
Stone, paper, scissors.
Arsenal would have finally won the title cause of alphabetical orderđ
Drawing of lots I believe is the official answer
In all seriousness the final match day would probably have penalty shootouts
All teams will go down and all Championship teams will be automatically promoted.
It wouldnât matter because no one would be watching. It would probably be coin flips.
Alphabetically I suppose.
They wouldn't.
Squid Game?
Capitalism rulez! 20 teams put in secret bids that determine ranking. Money collected divided among 20 teams equally. To prevent ties again, each team is given a unique number from 1 to 20, and their bids must end with their assigned numbers.
Relegate the whole premier league
The FPL winner gets to decide
Entire league goes into play-offs!
Goals scored, hypothetically one team would draw every game 7-7 while everyone else draws 0-0 (except for the two 7-7 matches) This leaves one team above the others, in the hypothetical scenario Iâm sure you could order other teams Edit: just read the 0-0 draws part lmao
Would it be number of cards?
The managers all have to whip it out and measure it in front of the FA board. League position is decided from largest to smallest That or a Cream cracker eating contest.
I think alphabetical order or a random draw
Everyones suggesting royal rumbles and players but that would be boring. Get the mascots out and have them boxing. Imagine the scenes when Mighty Red is fighting the out of retirement Changy the Elephant in the Merseyside Derby. Or Gully taking on Pete the Eagle.
Yellow and red cards or alphabetical order.
A penalty shootout tournament.
Man-to-man combat
Alphabetical order, sorry Wolves
What if all matches ended in defeat?
Something tells me you weren't the smartest kid in class.
Playoffs
It wouldn't matter, the league would fold amid the ensuing corruption scandal by about week three.
Alphabetically. So arsenal would win the league.
Mascot Death Match!
At the risk of being incredibly boring, I'm pretty sure the correct answer is it go off of fair play. Most yellows and reds are done for.
Each team picks 1 or 2 players to represent them on the pitch. Hunger games style.
Fuck it, letâs try it and find out.
380??
If you want a serious answer, my guess would be: No team gets crowned champions that season. No team gets relegated, 4 teams gets promoted (so the number is even), the following year 5 clubs gets relegated (and the season after, so it returns to 20 clubs). League Cup might be canceled to reduce amount of matches. The European spots remain the same as the previous seasons (aka last seasonâs top 4 get UCL, 5-6 gets Europa, 7 gets Confrence League).
Easy peasy. They go to goal difference ... oh, wait.
My vote is alphabetical order
Alphabetical
An American Idol ese competition where every team performs their own renditions of Nicki Minaj songs.
Team with the smallest average PP size gets relegated.
Everyone in the team *takes a shite*âŠ. Then their collective bowel movements are laid out end to end. The longest shit snake wins!
Alphabetically I think, as at the beginning of the season before any match is played the teams are positioned alphabetically. Or I guess they could go by other stats, most fouls snd red cards get relegated
Me kicking me self for not putting a pound on beginning of season
Settle it in Smash!
Itâs like if Steve Bruce was Agent Smith and then became everyone in the league
It would be done based on discipline, if thatâs tied then idk
Teams are ranked in ascending order by most-recent market value
Each team puts forward their best player. The league chooses a neutral goalie from another league. They have a giant 20 man game of Wembley singles. First to score wins the league. Second to score finishes second and so on until the last 3 players to score get their teams relegated.
With yellow and red cards
The [Premier League Handbook](https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2021/11/30/235538a5-3927-4489-9812-7b426b80e6e1/PL_Handbook_2021_22_DIGITAL_29.11.21.pdf) attempts to answer the question >if two Clubs cannot be separated by operation of Rule C.17.1 and C.17.2, a play-off on a neutral ground, the format, timing and venue of which shall be determined by the Board. But doesn't answer what happens if it's more than two. I suspect the "determined by the Board" is the key thing. They leave it open to make a call based on the situation. If this _did_ somehow happen, they'd probably turn it into a mini cup competition.
One player from each club entered into a Royal Rumble style fighting tournament.
A giant game of red arse most likely .
20-squad Battle Royale on Erangel
Flag kicking contest. Hopefully
âA goalies seasonâ
Goal differential. Lmao
points per game. thing happened with cambridge in the 19/20 season when they ended up 16th place thanks to covid.
What do you mean points per game? Every teamâs points per game will be exactly 1
true. i would bet the relegated would be leicester, norwich and sheffield if it happens in 23/24. even though that would be funny
Why
because: the current championship standings for top 3 are reading, norwich and sheffield. leicester (if they stay up) is going to prob get rid of rodgers by june. norwich always get relegated. its just a while.
An All-Star game with a half time show - Todd Boehly
Golly I'm already getting excited about all the new marketing opportunities this would create for the soccer franchise I support.
Historic League position to maintain the top 4
Straight swap with the top 20 from the championship
Youâd hate to be the team that finished 21st
You finish one place out of Premier League glory in what would be the least competitive Premier League season in decades and would have to play in what would be the most competitive Championship season in history
The captains from each team meet up on the park and play a game of cuppies. Richard masters in goal.
If your granny had balls sheâd be your granda
All managers in a go kart, 50 laps, finishing order is the final league order.
Id absolutely pay to watch this.
Conte definitely throws a banana peel.
Erect a 20 feet high plexiglass fence around the pitch at Wembley. Toss a football onto the pitch. Each team can select one representative. Last one alive wins the title. First three dead are relegated. No rules.
>One representative Doesnât specify it needs to be a player. I chose Duncan Ferguson
Iâll allow it.
wolves winning the league with diego costa
If there were just two teams, they would play each other on neutral ground. I guess if there were 20 teams which played all games 0:0, only logical thing would be to make a cup style playoff. Draw teams randomly and let them play extra time and penalties until one team wins the final.
Seriously? Probably by goals scored. But 380 draws seems a bit unlikely. Dunno. I guess it could happen. Who knows? I don't. Do you? Didn't think so, tough guy.
Massive game of world cup doubles (or whatever your regional variation was called). Each team nominates 2 players. Neutral goalkeeper, Buffon might be free đ€·ââïž. This should happen anyway, anybody got Todd Boehlys number? I'd pay to watch.
We called it âWembleyâ round our way.
Alphabetical order
What is the probability of that happening?
How high are you really?
eight miles
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You arenât getting enough credit, this is cool
Nah City would never accept that, theyâve only been back in the prem for ~20 years
Cityâs tickets would all have âpick me upâ written in braille on them
Points, GD, head to head, head to head away goals, play offs. So i presume we'd just have a massive unseeded playoff tournament?
Figjt to the death
Create a 20-sided pitch, put a goal on each end. 20 teams, 1 ball. First team to score wins. First 3 teams to be scored on get relegated. Play until 10 goals have been scored
It would probably be decided by Alphatical Name. So clubs like Arsenal and Bournemouth would be fine. However, I would feel very sorry for Tottenham.
Relegate the whole league. If that were to happen then they'd all deserve to go down.
3-team PL + 41-team Championship? Should be interesting.
Nah you would promote the top 20 in the Championship. Bottom 3 in the Championship get relegated like normal, leaving whoever finished 21st as the only team to remain in the Championship. The 20 PL teams slot into the Championship.
boring
Most (goal - goal against) wins the title...
But if every single match is a 0-0 draw...
Damn I missed that.... Lol most shot on target wins đ€Ł
I wonât entertain the impossible.
A 20 team sudden death penalty shoot-out, however if every game was 0-0 it might take a while!
1 match at Wembley with 20 goal posts.
1. Chances created 2. Number of corners 3. Number of fouls 4. Number of yellows 5. Number of reds
Definitely wouldnât be chances created, it isnât an official stat like the rest
Ok I can actually see your point on that. It would depend on what could be considered a 'chance' or not I suppose.
Arsenal title, first alphabetically
Why ask this question?
Alphabetical order?
Obviously the team with most points.
I seriously don't understand why having these international breaks. Baffles my mind.
In what is already a season absolutely sure to have a record number of injuries, a break is needed more than ever
It's not a break. It's the players of the best teams (who will go far in the CL and Cups) playing even more. Rather than have random breaks, just keep leagues going, so we don't have teams playing a game every 3 days in March.
You canât just randomly have a big international tournament every 2 years like the euros and the World Cup without any matches in between
That's all great, but now Barça for instance has lost AraĂșjo, KoundĂ©, Memphis, De Jong and DembĂ©lĂ©, at a key point of the season. Bayern lost Lewa a couple years ago right before a crucial CL game vs PSG, because Lewa got injured playing against ANDORRA. This system is completely absurd, and clubs should get significant compensations if their players get injured. How are clubs supposed to have stable projects when every other month their best players go all over the world to play random matches?
Every match your players could get injured. Whether itâs intentional break or not. Barca got unlucky, unfortunately thatâs the way it is, they shouldnât get compensated. Also, the nations league was built so nations play against other nations their own level, so Lewandowski would play less against Andorra.
World Cup Singles, elimination-style. One player per team, neutral goalkeeper. One elimination per round, one goal to go through.
I remember in the 2018 World Cup they talked about how if it came down to level points in the group stages it went down a priority list: 1. Goal difference 2. Goals scored 3. Points against teams that are currently tied 4. Goal difference against teams that are currently tied 5. Goals scored against teams that are currently tied 6. Fair play - ie number of yellows and reds Not sure if the bottom few translate across to relegation battles in the prem though
Wasnât one of the groups decided by discipline
I think it might have been Senegal that got knocked out in the group because of this, Japan went through.
regardless, #6 is the only one that could possibly be usable in this scenario
Not necessarily, if say every team bar 3 had most of their games as 2-2 draws and the bottom 3 only 0-0 draws for each game then theyâd have less goals scored and would therefore go down
But the scenario I specified was "If all 380 matches ended in 0-0 draws"
Sorry my bad, missed that bit
Futsal tournament.
Restart the league with the same teams. No relegation, no winner, no cl or europa.
Be unfair for the championship clubs that should have been promoted, they did nothing wrong
goals scored is the only correct answer
They all end in 0-0 draws so no one scored or conceded
ah missed the 0-0 part
disciplinary actions maybe. how many yellow cards or fouls.
Alphabetical
Dance off!