Efficiency Rankings: The biggest overachievers and underperformers in European football so far in 2024/25
IMAGO | Chris Wood has scored 18 goals in the Premier League this season for Nottingham Forest, who sit in a surprising third place.
As the 2024/25 season pauses for the international break, Off The Pitch highlights European football’s unexpected success stories and biggest surprises across the continent.
Off The Pitch has developed value-for-money tables for Europe’s six major leagues, using efficiency scores to compare each team's expected performance based on financial resources with their actual points total.
Why it matters: Football is about more than just trophies—how clubs perform relative to their financial situation can be even more revealing.
The perspective: Football has increasingly become a game of financial power. It is important to highlight clubs that punch above their weight, as they can serve as prime examples for others.
19 March 2025 - 5:05 PM
As club football pauses for the first international break of 2025, we have analysed which clubs are the most financially efficient and which are the biggest underperformers.
Our rankings are based on Off The Pitch’s Efficiency Ranking, which calculates a club’s expected points relative to its financial position. The algorithm determines expected points using key financial metrics, including the estimated wage bill for 2024/25, net transfer sp
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