It is already rare to win the championship without losing in a season, but it is even more rare to win the championship without losing. But rare is rare. In fact, there are such unlucky people, and there are more than one. Cursed Benfica

Benfica's "Gutmann Curse" is very famous, but in addition to being cursed in the Champions League, Benfica also suffers a lot in the league. In the 1977-78 season, Benfica achieved an unbeaten record of 21 wins and 9 draws in the league, but the championship was against their mortal enemy Porto, who had 22 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss. With both sides tied for 51 points, Porto had a significant lead on goal difference, while Benfica had no choice but to settle for second place. The Turkish Super League giants are in the same boat

In the 1985-86 season of the Turkish First Division, they copied the scene of the Portuguese duo. Galatasaray achieved an unbeaten record of 20 wins and 16 draws, while its opponent Besiktas had 22 wins, 12 draws and 2 losses. Both sides had a total of 56 points. In the end, Besiktas, which had a greater goal difference, won the championship. Galatasaray is in disgrace. Serie A's dark horse is just one move away

A very strange scene occurred in the 1978-79 Serie A season. The entire league experienced an explosion of draws, especially the newly promoted teams that played 19 draws in 30 rounds! However, their poor offensive ability still failed to allow them to perform a miracle. In the end, AC Milan won the Serie A championship with 17 wins, 10 draws and 3 losses, and Perugia ranked second with 41 points. No wonder! Because the world is a big place

Generally speaking, in a single-season football league, if a certain team can remain undefeated, it is basically guaranteed to win the championship! Because it can continuously maintain a stable and high level, competitive state and good luck between 20-40 games, such a team itself is rare.

However, this conclusion can only be made on a "basic" basis, and unexpected situations may still occur. Because the rules of the football game are: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss. Under this kind of rule, there is a famous saying on the football field: "One victory solves a thousand worries!".

Using a simple model to convert, there are 10 games in a season. 27 points with 9 wins and 1 loss is 1 point more than 26 points with 8 wins and 2 draws. Although 8 wins and 2 draws maintains a good score. defeat.

One victory is worth three draws! Therefore, the championship team of each country's league is basically the team that has won the most games that season. There are still teams that remain undefeated but fail to win the championship.

First of all, it must be said that there are very few teams that remain undefeated and fail to win the championship! Because there are not many teams that remain undefeated. So here we use enumeration to illustrate that this situation does exist.

Among the five major leagues, Serie A's Perugia team once set an embarrassing record of "undefeated but not winning the championship". In the 1978-79 season, Serie A's Perugia team achieved a record of 19 wins and 11 draws in 30 league rounds. Although they remained undefeated throughout the season, they missed the championship due to too few wins in the season.

Through data analysis, the Perugia team's winning rate is only 63.3%. The winning rates of the five major league champions are generally between 75% and 80%! Therefore, Perugia's undefeated record and failure to win the Serie A championship is not an upset. It can only be said that the team's wins are too few. In most cases, undefeated teams have a high winning percentage.

In the world of football, we hear more undefeated stories, all of which end with remaining undefeated and winning the championship. Because under normal circumstances, teams that can remain undefeated generally have a good winning rate. Take our League A as an example. Dalian Wanda won the championship with an undefeated record that year! In the Premier League, Arsenal even maintained a long-term unbeaten streak across seasons.

So most of the time, when we hear that a team in the Mou League remains undefeated, we also hear the news that this team won the league championship.

I was not invited, but I read a few answers and they were all wrong. The answer is yes, and it happened in the five major leagues! In the 1978/79 season, Perugia was undefeated in 30 league games, but due to too many draws, they finished second. The champion was AC Milan! 3 points behind. Perugia has a record of 11 wins and 19 draws. Milan has a record of 17 wins, 10 draws and 3 losses.

At that time, Serie A implemented a 2-point system for winning!

Although it sounds like a difficult task to complete now, there is no shortage of teams in the history of football that win the championship undefeated in a season. Let's take stock!

The 2003/04 season was a season worthy of Arsenal's pride. They won the 13th league championship trophy in the club's history. Arsenal made rapid progress throughout the season. Remaining undefeated in the Premier League has created an astonishing myth. At the end of the 2003/04 season, Arsenal had 90 points, 11 points ahead of second-placed Chelsea. In August 2004, Arsenal broke the record held by Nottingham Forest and created a new myth of 49 consecutive unbeaten league games in England's top league.

In the 1991-1992 season, AC Milan won the league championship with an unbeaten record and achieved an unbeaten record of 58 games until being defeated in the 24th round of the 1992-1993 season. Erma defeated 1-0.

Juventus ended the 2011-2012 season with an impressive record of 23 wins, 15 draws and 84 points. At the same time, it became the second team in Serie A history to be undefeated after AC Milan in the 1991-1992 season. A team with a winning record.

In the 2016-2017 season, 34 wins, 4 draws and an unbeaten record made Celtic the first undefeated team to win the Scottish Premiership in 118 years. Their points are as high as 106 points, which creates a record for the highest score in the Scottish Premiership.

Dalian Wanda won 12 and drew 10 of the 22 league games in the 1996 season, remaining unbeaten throughout the season. This is the only time in China's top professional leagues to win the championship with an unbeaten record in a single season. From the 0-3 loss to Shanghai Shenhua in the 10th round of 1995 until the 2-4 loss to Shanghai Shenhua in the last round of 1997, Dalian Wanda remained unbeaten in 55 league games.

In the 2010-2011 Portuguese Super League season, Porto won the championship 5 rounds in advance, and finally handed over a terrifying record of 27 wins and 3 draws in 30 rounds. The winning rate is as high as 90%, and the points reached 84 points.

There was also Tianjin TEDA in 1998. In that season, Tianjin TEDA ended up with 11 wins and 11 draws and successfully entered the A-A league with an unbeaten record, creating a milestone for Tianjin football.

As for what the questioner said, I have never heard of a team that has gone undefeated for a season but failed to win the championship.

Every situation can happen in the football world. Remaining undefeated throughout the season but not winning the league championship seems so tragic, but it has also happened in reality. Among the information I have, three teams have encountered such misfortune, namely Benfica of Portugal in the 1977-78 season, Perugia of Italy in the 1978-79 season, and Galatasaray of Turkey in the 1985-86 season.

1. Benfica (Portugal) in the 1977-78 season

Benfica in the 1977-78 season was indeed very sad. Benfica under the English head coach Mortimore was in all 30 rounds. In the Portuguese League, they achieved an unbeaten record of 21 wins and 9 draws, including 12 wins and 3 draws at home and 9 wins and 6 draws away from home. What’s even more amazing is that Benfica has only conceded 11 goals in 30 league games, conceding almost one goal every three league games. Porto, which has the second fewest goals, has conceded almost twice as many goals as Benfica (21 goals).

However, even with such an outstanding performance, Benfica failed to win the league championship. Porto had 22 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss, with 51 points tied with Benfica. The 60 goal difference far surpassed Benfica (45) and won the championship. In terms of away performance, Benfica is better than Porto, which has 9 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss, but at home Porto has 13 wins and 2 draws, one more win than Benfica.

In Benfica’s three home draws, they drew 0 0 with Porto and Braga respectively, but it was a pity that they were tied 1 1 by Portimonense, which was ultimately ranked 13th (fourth from last). , if we can win this game, we can overwhelm Porto and win the championship. Benfica's offensive power that season was indeed not strong enough. They only scored 56 goals in total, which was 25 goals less than Porto and not even as good as the third-placed Sporting CP (63 goals).

Only one player in the team, Nene, scored more than 8 goals in the league, and he only scored 12 goals. He could not even enter the top 9 league scorers that season.

2. 1978-79 Season Perugia (Italy)

In 1974, former Perugia player Castagne served as the head coach of Perugia. He was only 34 years old. He took charge of the senior team for the first time, but he immediately led the team to win the Serie B championship and helped Peru gain promotion to Serie A.

In the 1975-76 season, Perugia, as a newly promoted team, finished 8th (***16 teams) and established a firm foothold in Serie A. In the next two seasons, Castagne led Perugia to finish fifth and seventh respectively, missing out on European qualification.

In the 1978-79 season, Castagne and his team created miracles. They remained undefeated in 30 league rounds throughout the season and achieved the best record in team history—— Serie A runner-up and got the right to participate in the UEFA Cup next season.

The fundamental reason for being undefeated in the season but failing to win the championship was that Perugia had too many draws, with 11 wins and 19 draws and 41 points. Although the champion AC Milan lost 3 games, it had 17 wins and 10 draws. Arrived at 44 minutes. Perugia has the best home record in Serie A, with 8 wins and 7 draws, which is better than AC Milan's 8 wins, 6 draws and 1 loss. However, it is held back by its away record of 3 wins and 12 draws. Perugia was able to beat the defending champion Juventus 2+1 away from home, but it was difficult to win against the likes of Verona, Vicenza, Ascoli, and Bologna. It was indeed a pity.

It is worth mentioning that Perugia ranked first in Serie A in the 6th and 7th rounds of that season.

3. Galatasaray (Turkey) in the 1985-86 season

In the 1985-86 season, Galatasaray was led by former West Germany national team coach Deval. Achieved a good record of 20 wins and 16 draws, and did not lose a game throughout the season. However, the city rival Besiktas had 22 wins, 12 draws and 2 losses. They have 56 points with Galatasaray, but the goal difference is 7 more than the latter. , thus winning the league championship. Galatasaray could only settle for second place.

There were 36 rounds in the Turkish League at that time, and Galatasaray still ranked first after the 32nd round. The problem came in the 33rd round, when De Waal’s team was forced 0 0 by Zonguldak in the away game. To a certain extent, a point lost in this game ruined the entire season's efforts. However, Galatasaray still has a chance to take the initiative, because in the 34th round the two teams faced off directly in the top spot, and Galatasaray has the home court advantage.

On May 4, 1986, Galatasaray faced Besiktas at home and ended the first half with a 10 lead. However, De Waal's team does have the problem of insufficient offensive power - they failed to score a goal for 90 minutes in the previous round of hard work in Zonguldak, and the same was true against Besiktas. In the second half, they were unable to expand the score. Instead, he was equalized by his opponent. Even so, the two teams are almost on the same starting line, because they have the same points and Besiktas only has a goal difference advantage.

However, Galatasaray’s shortcomings of insufficient offensive power (especially away from home) were fully exposed in the last 4 rounds. Although they achieved complete victories, 3 of them were 1-0 wins, and only one was a 1-0 victory. 5 2, 4 rounds with 6 goal differentials. Besiktas also won all 4 games, and the scores were 4 1, 2 0, 6 0, 1 0, with a goal difference of 6 more than Galatasaray, and finally took away the championship trophy.

It was not until the 1986-87 season, the last year of De Waal's coaching career, that he led Galatasaray to win the league championship. It was also the first time in 14 seasons that the team regained dominance in Turkish football.

1. In the 1978/79 season, under the leadership of Italian coach Ilario Castagner, Perugia remained undefeated in the season. In 30 league games, Perugia won 11 and drew 19, scoring 34 goals and conceding 16 goals. Perugia is the first Serie A club to have an undefeated season. It was not until the 1991/92 season that AC Milan replicated Perugia's unbeaten record in a single season.

Regrettably, although Perugia was undefeated in the season, they had too many draws and could only be ranked second in Serie A. AC Milan, coached by Lidholm, won the 10th top league championship in the club's history with a 3-point advantage. . In 30 league games, AC Milan has 17 wins, 10 draws and 3 losses, accumulating 44 points. < /p>

3. In the 2008 season of the Japan Professional Women’s Football League B, FC High School Women won the runner-up with an unbeaten record of 12 wins and 4 draws. The champion was the Chiba Ichihara Women’s Football Team (13 wins and 3 draws)

There are also two teams that went undefeated in the season but won the championship.

1. Arsenal, 49 games, 36 wins, 13 draws, and no losses - this is the unbeaten league record created by Arsenal between 2003 and 2004. This piece of history will be recorded in the annals of history forever and will be treasured in our memory for a long time.

2. Dalian Wanda. In the autumn of 1995, after a bad start, Dalian Wanda hired Chi Shangbin, who had returned from Japan, as the head coach. Unfortunately, in the 10th round of the A-A season on August 13, In his first game after taking office, he lost to Shanghai Shenhua 0:3. After 20 weeks of brief adjustments, Dalian Wanda defeated Guangzhou Sunshine 1:0 at home on September 3, marking the beginning of a 55-game unbeaten streak; until December 21, 1997, they lost 2:4 away in the final round of the league. To Shanghai Shenhua.

It would be embarrassing to go undefeated but not win the championship. According to records, there really is such a team.

In the 1978-79 season, the Italian Perugia team had 11 wins and 19 draws. , scoring 34 goals and conceding 16 goals to win the runner-up with an unbeaten record, which is gratifying and tearful. However, the subsequent Milan team also had an unbeaten record, but they won the Serie A championship.

I remember that Beijing Guoan also had an undefeated record in that year, but they also won the runner-up

There are countless football leagues at all levels and it is difficult to count, so let’s set the range. The five major European leagues that everyone is familiar with. I checked specifically and found that there is indeed a team in the five major leagues that has an undefeated season but has not won the championship. That is Perugia Club (now playing in Serie B). In the distant 1978/79 season, Perugia was in Serie A. Achieved an unbeaten record of 11 wins and 19 draws. In the end, they were ranked second due to too many draws. The championship belonged to AC Milan.

After looking at the unlucky teams that went undefeated in the season but failed to win the championship, let’s take a look at the teams that entered the 21st century and went undefeated and won the championship. Arsenal won the championship undefeated in the 2003/04 season

The 2003/04 season was a season worthy of Arsenal's pride. They won the 13th league championship trophy in the club's history. , Arsenal made great progress, remained undefeated in the Premier League, and created an astonishing myth. At the end of the 2003/04 season, Arsenal had 90 points, 11 points ahead of second-placed Chelsea. In the 2011/12 season, Juventus won the title undefeated

In 2011, Juventus invited former captain Conte as head coach, signed Pirlo, Pogba, and Vidal to strengthen the midfield and form a With the defensive BBC combination of Bonucci, Barzagli and Chiellini, and such a powerful midfielder, Juventus began its road to dominance in Serie A. In the 11-12 season, Juventus won the championship with 23 wins, 15 draws, and an unbeaten record in a single season. In addition to the draw in the last round of 10-11 and the 11 unbeaten rounds at the beginning of the 12-13 season, Juventus completed the longest span of 49 rounds without defeat in team history. defeat.

I wonder if the old fans still remember the newly promoted team Perugia in the Serie A in the 1978-1979 season? In 1975, after Perugia entered Serie A for the first time, as a new Serie A team at the time, it only took them three years to set an unprecedented record, that is: reaching Serie A in a single season. An unbeaten record of 11 wins and 19 draws. However, it is a pity that although the Perugia team achieved an unbeaten season, they failed to win the league championship that season.

After being promoted to Serie A, Perugia has become known for its tenacious defense. In the 1978-1979 season, the Perugia team, under the leadership of head coach Castagne, became the team with the fewest goals conceded in the league.

However, due to the team's weak offense, many games ended in 0:0. The Perugia team, which had 19 draws in 30 league games, was also nicknamed the "Draw Master" by fans. After the end of the season, the Perugia team finally fell behind the Serie A giant AC Milan in the standings and finished second in the league precisely because of too many draws in the game.

Later, the Perugia team also had many well-known players, such as: Ahn Jung-hwan, Grosso, Materazzi and Chinese star Ma Mingyu.

The Perugia team also fell into a trough after its glory days. The Perugia team was first relegated to Serie C due to poor performance. After the players worked hard to return to Serie A, the club once again collapsed due to lack of financial resources. Bankruptcy, the team was even relegated to Serie D, the lowest level of the Italian Professional Football League. However, with the support of the government, Perugia has now returned to the second division. They have a very good chance of returning to the Serie A in the middle and upper reaches of the league rankings.

In 1995, after losing to Shenhua 0-3, Dalian started a Chinese football record-breaking 55-game unbeaten run in the league until it ended after losing 2-4 to Shenhua in the final round of the league in 1997. Therefore, in the 1996 season, Dalian won the championship without losing a game.