Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 22:43:58 GMT
Interesting column in the Guardian about teams that have to share stadiums in places (like Gibraltar) where there aren't many stadiums:
www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/20/which-football-team-has-played-a-home-game-the-furthest-from-home (second item)
In Gibraltar, for instance, 19 teams share one stadium! The entire top two tiers of their 'pyramid' play in the same place. How the hell this is arranged isn't gone into in detail!
In Macau, over 100 teams share just two stadiums - and, even more bizarrely, all teams play in both stadiums!
And, in Malta, although there are a number of stadiums, still 13 teams from the top two divisions all play at the same stadium. And in the third division, more than half of the teams play in the same stadium (although a different one to the top two divisions...).
But, if that wasn't weird enough, just consider what else this reveals - the sheer number of football teams in such tiny places.
Macau, for instance, with an area of about 30 square kilometres (less than a 10th the size of Maidstone Borough) has over 100 football teams! But, then it is the mostly densely populated place in the world - 650,000 people (roughly 4 times the population of Maidstone) - so perhaps that many teams isn't quite so bizarre.
Malta, is more reasonable, with 'only' 40+ football teams, and a much bigger island (although still only three quarter the size of our own dear borough), and, with a population of about 450,000, maybe 40+ teams isn't that odd. Although it gets a lot weirder when you consider that their tiny neighbouring island of Gozo has enough football teams to maintain a league with two divisions!
But, really taking the prize is Gibraltar. A place smaller than Maidstone town, with a population of only 30,000 and only enough space for ONE football stadium, has a two division league of 19 teams! Where on earth do they all train??
www.theguardian.com/football/2017/sep/20/which-football-team-has-played-a-home-game-the-furthest-from-home (second item)
In Gibraltar, for instance, 19 teams share one stadium! The entire top two tiers of their 'pyramid' play in the same place. How the hell this is arranged isn't gone into in detail!
In Macau, over 100 teams share just two stadiums - and, even more bizarrely, all teams play in both stadiums!
And, in Malta, although there are a number of stadiums, still 13 teams from the top two divisions all play at the same stadium. And in the third division, more than half of the teams play in the same stadium (although a different one to the top two divisions...).
But, if that wasn't weird enough, just consider what else this reveals - the sheer number of football teams in such tiny places.
Macau, for instance, with an area of about 30 square kilometres (less than a 10th the size of Maidstone Borough) has over 100 football teams! But, then it is the mostly densely populated place in the world - 650,000 people (roughly 4 times the population of Maidstone) - so perhaps that many teams isn't quite so bizarre.
Malta, is more reasonable, with 'only' 40+ football teams, and a much bigger island (although still only three quarter the size of our own dear borough), and, with a population of about 450,000, maybe 40+ teams isn't that odd. Although it gets a lot weirder when you consider that their tiny neighbouring island of Gozo has enough football teams to maintain a league with two divisions!
But, really taking the prize is Gibraltar. A place smaller than Maidstone town, with a population of only 30,000 and only enough space for ONE football stadium, has a two division league of 19 teams! Where on earth do they all train??