CL vs Premier League | Which is more prestigious?

Which is more prestigious?


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Pyroblazer

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More prestigeous? The CL of course.

But the league is a better barometer of quality and the PL is the competition I prefer to be honesty. It's absolutely not about the bolded bit. It's about who can perform consistently at the highest level. Peaking at the right time/performing under pressure is overrated at times. In the CL too you get a piss easy draw and coast your way to the finals.
Agree with that. CL is obviously the biggest club competiton and the trophy every club wants to win, but the league is the best barometer for quality. You can't win the league with luck, you have to be the best team to win it and you have to perform all year. That's why I am not happy with finishing 6th and winning a cup competiton because it hides how weak your team might have been. Di Matteo's Chelsea is a prime example for that and it showed a few months later. So in that regard beeing higher up in the league/fighting for the title is probably more important for the progress of your team than going far in the CL without winning it.
 

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CL is more prestigious, but the EPL is much more difficult.

The false notion that the CL is the true proving ground for players to see if they cut it at the "highest level" just seemed silly to me, because when you look at it realistically it is far from anywhere close to being a barometer for quality. In the EPL each and every season you know you will have to play Tottenham, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, MU, and MC twice so those are 10 insanely difficult matches you have to play in if your on one of those teams. Where as in the CL, in the group stages you end up with 1 very good team and sometimes potentially a 2nd good team if you are in a Group of Death. So for the majority of the teams they end up having to to play 2 matches of real quality and the rest are 2nd tier matches. Once in the knockouts you again either end up with a very good team or another 2nd tier team and it goes like that until the SF's and Final. You simply don't compete regularly enough with top teams in the CL for it to be some sort of barometer.

In the best case scenario of a team facing very good teams in the CL from start to actually winning the CL it would be a maximum of 6 teams(2 in GS, 1 R16, 1 QF, 1 SF, 1 Final) in the worse case scenario it would be 2 teams(0 in GS, 0 R16, 0 QF, 1 SF, 1 Final) similarly to Monaco last season had they beaten Juventus. For the very large majority of teams bar the elite 3 to 5 teams through the CL campaign you end up playing 2 or 3 very good teams on averages one in the GS and one or two in the Knockouts. So when you compare those two it is quite evident that your going to face more competitive teams in the EPL in a season of football.

No offense, but look at United's CL campaign it might as well have been the Europa League campaign. The group was none existent and the R16 tie is basically another EL knockout round.
If the premier league is more difficult why have we won the league 20 times and the CL only 3?

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CL by a mile in terms of recognition and respect.
 

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For a Footballer you will have a higher profile playing for a midable PL club than you would playing for Shakhtar Donetsk, Basel, Porto, etc sides that are usually in the CL.
 

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League is the best barometer of quality, but to answer the question the champions league is more prestigious.
 

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Years ago this question was asked and there was a lot more voting for the prem. Fans are fickle.
 

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If the premier league is more difficult why have we won the league 20 times and the CL only 3?

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Because you got knocked out by 1 team in a one-off tie. I never said there aren't better teams in the CL competition, but that the over all campaign is rather lackluster when it come to competitiveness and not really a proper way of measuring one teams actually quality. Your whole CL campaign can come down to facing 2 good teams in 4 matches that could crown you the best of Europe. Thus using the CL as a proving ground for player just doesn't really make any sense.
 

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Champions League. But as a fan, I would always prefer to win the League.
 

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Obvious answer is the CL but for me if you win that without winning your domestic league it’s not as prestigious.

We’re only in for one of those competitions now anyway so does it matter? Are we clutching at straws!?
 

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Champions League, but only if the team challenges in the league as well. A team can finish 4th in the league, reach the CL and win it the next season, and at the same time finish like 8th in the league. That to me signals the team is not worthy of winning the Champions League, that it wins because it rests all players in the league. A proper CL-team fights on all fronts.

Saying that, you can win the CL due to luck - but you can never win the league over 38 games because of luck. Even Leicester didn't strike luck, they just won the most games. By luck in the CL I mean penalties, red cards, wrong decisions, suspensions, meeting teams that are severely off form (like Real Madrid these days) and so forth.
 

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For a Footballer you will have a higher profile playing for a midable PL club than you would playing for Shakhtar Donetsk, Basel, Porto, etc sides that are usually in the CL.
I’d rather Porto than Watford, as I think Porto is the more prestigious club. That’s just my opinion.
 

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Fun Fact: In 9 out of Real Madrid's 12 European Cups, they did not win the league in the same season.

They don't give a toss though.
That's nuts.

The league+CL double is where it's at.
 

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Obviously CL but it can't be compared to winning the League. Give me one CL in five years and 4 PL titles in the same period and I'll be more than happy
I'm sure that everyone would be much happier with one PL in five years and 4 CL titles in the same period.
 

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Simply put, a CL win gives you the joy and sheer ecstasy (i didnt know what to do with myself for 2 weeks after Munich and it felt amazing) but PL gives you the most satisfaction (after 38 games if you can come on top nobody can argue you deserve it). I think Oliver Kahn has the right idea, a super league is needed because domestic league's are getting boring.
 

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CL is more prestigious but you can fluke your path to glory or even the final. The league, especially a league with multiple good teams is a worthy representation of what true mastery of a campaign is all about.
 

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World Cup
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European Cup
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Champions League
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Leagues of the Europa

Something like that.

I personally prefer Premier League very very much over Champions one.
Honestly as someone from outside of Europe (Australia as a matter of fact), I couldn't give a rat's arse about the Euros. I absolutely love the world cup, but for the Euros, I'm only really interested in how United's players are doing in it, or if something crazy happens that makes a huge headline like Iceland at the last euros.

Aside from that, how is this even a question? United has only ever won the european cup/champions league 3 times, the league 20 times, one is obviously harder to win, for premier league teams at least. I hope we can do well in the champions league this season.
 

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It's not a subjective question. The CL is objectively the more prestigious competition

Personal preference is a different thing
 

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The CL is a glorified cup competition stratified at the top.

The PL over 38 games establishes with minimal doubt who the best is in the country.

I rank the PL above the CL. The CL is incomplete without an accompanying title. So feck off Chelsea, Liverpool, Milan, et al...
We didn't win the title the year we won our first European cup.
 
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Football is essentially more random and flukey than other team sports, and that's part of the charm. But cup competitions amplify it to an unreasonable extent IMO. They're prestigious and exciting, and are often mythologized, but compared to league campaign, they're not a true test of quality. There's a reason why Barca have three times as much league trophies, but equal number of CL wins compared to Real in last 10 years. Cup trophies often don't tell the true story about team's quality, as much as number of goals is not a reliable barometer of a player's quality. But people love glory and prefer simple narratives.
 

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It also depends where you're coming from if you're in a league where you'd guaranteed top or second spot pretty much through the endeavour of just showing up then the CL presumably means more than it would if you're from a highly competitive domestic league. Clubs that aren't challenged domestically to any significant degree year after year after year after year will of course look to Europe for a bigger challenge.

Name aside, it is still a cup competition. The most prestigious in football, undoubtedly. But the reality is you can get balls-deep in the competition without playing anyone much. Every league win is comparable to others. You play the same teams (relegation coming and goings aside) as the team that won it the year before and the team who'll win it next year. Winning the CL securing your own domestic title and having a tricky route to the final simply is not the same achievement as winning the CL whilst finishing 4th and not playing anyone of note until the last 8.

You lift the same trophy but it's NOT the same achievement. Given the choice my number 1 priority would always be the league. I say that whilst accepting the CL will always be more glamorous.
 

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For me, these have switched around.

As a season ticket holder, this season I have been more excited to attend Premier League games than CL games. Maybe its because thw CL has been diluted somewhat buf I am unsure.

I know that the CL should be more prestigious than the league but I prefer going to Premier League games over Champions League now.
 

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For me, these have switched around.

As a season ticket holder, this season I have been more excited to attend Premier League games than CL games. Maybe its because thw CL has been diluted somewhat buf I am unsure.

I know that the CL should be more prestigious than the league but I prefer going to Premier League games over Champions League now.
I think it depends on where you come from.


Domestically (City's absurd start aside) the English league provides the competitive element that many other leagues don't, and that many other top sides and their fans don't experience apart from one or two opponents a season or an absurdly unexpected upset once in a blue moon. If you support a top English side you don't have to wait for the luck of the draw in February onwards to deliver a juicy tie. You get competitive games and potential of an upset every single match.

The CL presumably scratches an itch for fans of Bayern or Barcelona that fans of English clubs don't really have.
 

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How many of Fergie's Permier League titles do you think he'd have traded for one more CL win? I'm going to say at least 5 of them. That's how prestigious it is.

Clarence Seedorf has won 4 CL titles. I have no idea and give zero fecks how many domestic leagues he's won. I doubt anyone even knows off the top of their heads.
 

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Football is essentially more random and flukey than other team sports, and that's part of the charm. But cup competitions amplify it to an unreasonable extent IMO. They're prestigious and exciting, and are often mythologized, but compared to league campaign, they're not a true test of quality. There's a reason why Barca have three times as much league trophies, but equal number of CL wins compared to Real in last 10 years. Cup trophies often don't tell the true story about team's quality, as much as number of goals is not a reliable barometer of a player's quality. But people love glory and prefer simple narratives.
The reason for that is that Barca (or tiki-taka in general) is better suited to destroying the lesser teams (see Man City league season so far). Yet, when it comes to facing the best sides in the world, it's not anywhere as effective, and the more direct style Real employ, is arguably more efficient in the biggest games.
 

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The reason for that is that Barca (or tiki-taka in general) is better suited to destroying the lesser teams (see Man City league season so far). Yet, when it comes to facing the best sides in the world, it's not anywhere as effective, and the more direct style Real employ, is arguably more efficient in the biggest games.
Nope. The reason is luck. Plain and simple "luck"
 

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All of United fans here know by memory the 68/99/08 United winning Champions League teams/can remember the celebrations/how you felt etc.

How many can remember (without Googling) Manchester United's 2002-03, 2006-07 and 2010-11 Premier League winning teams and all the celebrations?

There's your answer.
 
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