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Goal difference

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Goal difference or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. [1]

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AFC Ajax

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax, also AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax, is a Dutch professional football club based in Amsterdam.

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Alex Ferguson

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013.

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Arsenal F.C.

Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Atli Viðar Björnsson

Atli Viðar Björnsson (born 4 January 1980) is an Icelandic footballer, currently playing for FH.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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AZ Alkmaar

Alkmaar Zaanstreek, better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ, is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaanstreek.

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Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja

Íþróttabandalag Vestmannaeyja (usually referred to as ÍBV) is an Icelandic multi-sport club from Vestmannaeyjar off the south coast of Iceland.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Boy Waterman

Boy Waterman (born 24 January 1984 in Lelystad, Flevoland) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Cypriot First Division side APOEL FC.

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Breiðablik UBK

Breiðablik is a multi-sports club from Kópavogur, Iceland.

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Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club is a professional football club based in Falmer, East Sussex, England.

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Burnley F.C.

Burnley Football Club is a professional association football club based in Burnley, Lancashire, England.

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Carlisle United F.C.

Carlisle United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Carlisle, Cumbria, where they play at Brunton Park.

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Celtic F.C.

The Celtic Football Club is a professional football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, which plays in the Scottish Premiership.

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Chelsea F.C.

Chelsea Football Club is a professional football club in London, England, that competes in the Premier League.

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Danny Koevermans

Danny Koevermans (born 1 November 1978) is a Dutch former footballer who currently works as a coach for Sparta Rotterdam.

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Debreceni VSC

Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club is a Hungarian League professional football club, based in Debrecen.

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Division by zero

In mathematics, division by zero is division where the divisor (denominator) is zero.

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Dundee F.C.

Dundee Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Dundee, Scotland.

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Dunfermline Athletic F.C.

Dunfermline Athletic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in Dunfermline, Fife, commonly known as just Dunfermline.

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English Football League

The English Football League (EFL) is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales.

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Eredivisie

The Eredivisie ("Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is the highest echelon of professional football in the Netherlands.

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Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar

Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar (Hafnarfjörður gymnastics club), commonly referred to as FH, is a professional Icelandic sports club based in Hafnarfjörður.

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FK Budućnost Podgorica

Fudbalski Klub Budućnost Podgorica (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Будућност Подгорица) is a football club from Podgorica, Montenegro, currently competing in the Montenegrin First League.

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FK Partizan

Fudbalski klub Partizan (Фудбалски клуб Партизан), commonly known as Partizan Belgrade (Партизан Београд / Partizan Beograd) or simply Partizan, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade.

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Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London, England.

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GNK Dinamo Zagreb

Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb, commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb, is a professional Croatian football club based in Zagreb.

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Goal (sport)

In sports, a goal is a physical structure or area where an attacking team must send the ball or puck in order to score points.

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Győri ETO FC

WKW ETO FC Győr (Egyetértés Torna Osztály Futball Club Győr; Concordance Gymnastics Department Football Club of Győr) or just ETO, is a football club from the city of Győr in Hungary.

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Heart of Midlothian F.C.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club, commonly known as Hearts, is a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie in the west of Edinburgh.

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Hereford United F.C.

Hereford United Football Club was an English association football club based in the city of Hereford that last played in the Southern League Premier Division, the seventh tier of English football.

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Hibernian F.C.

Hibernian Football Club, commonly known as Hibs, is a Scottish professional football club based in Leith in the north of Edinburgh.

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Ibrahim Afellay

Ibrahim Afellay (born 2 April 1986) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Stoke City and the Dutch national team.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Kópavogur

Kópavogur is a city in Iceland which is the country's second largest municipality by population.

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Keflavík

Keflavík (pronounced, meaning Driftwood Bay) is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland.

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Kilmarnock F.C.

Kilmarnock Football Club, commonly known as Killie, is a Scottish football team based in the town of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire.

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Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Dirk Jan Klaas "Klaas-Jan" Huntelaar (born 12 August 1983), nicknamed The Hunter, is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a striker for Ajax and the Netherlands national team.

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Leeds United F.C.

Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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List of Scottish football champions

The Scottish football champions are the winners of the highest league in Scottish football, namely the Scottish Football League (SFL) from 1890 until 1998, the Scottish Premier League (SPL) from 1998 until 2013 and the Scottish Premiership thereafter.

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Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.

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Magnús Þorsteinsson

Magnús Þorsteinsson is a businessman and was chairman of now defunct Avion Group.

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Manchester City F.C.

Manchester City Football Club is a football club in Manchester, England.

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Manchester United F.C.

Manchester United Football Club is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.

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Mezőkövesdi SE

Mezőkövesdi Sport Egyesület is a football club located in Mezőkövesd, Hungary.

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OFK Beograd

Omladinski fudbalski klub Beograd (Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: Belgrade Youth Football Club) is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, more precisely from the Karaburma urban neighbourhood.

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Plymouth Argyle F.C.

Plymouth Argyle Football Club is a professional football club based in the city of Plymouth, Devon, England.

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Portsmouth F.C.

Portsmouth Football Club is a professional football club in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, which plays in EFL League One, the third tier of English football, following their promotion as EFL League Two champions in the 2016–17 EFL League Two season.

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Preston North End F.C.

Preston North End Football Club (often shortened to PNE) is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, who play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.

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PSV Eindhoven

The Philips Sport Vereniging (Philips Sports Union), abbreviated as PSV and internationally known as PSV Eindhoven is a sports club from Eindhoven, Netherlands.

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Queen of the South F.C.

Queen of the South Football Club are a Scottish professional football club formed in March 1919 and located in Dumfries.

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Queens Park Rangers F.C.

Queens Park Rangers Football Club, commonly abbreviated to QPR, is a professional association football club based in White City, London.

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Rangers F.C.

Rangers Football Club are a football club in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premiership, the first tier of the Scottish Professional Football League.

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Red Star Belgrade

Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда), commonly known in English as Red Star Belgrade (Црвена звезда Београд / Crvena zvezda Beograd) or simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club.

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RNK Split

Radnički Nogometni Klub Split commonly known as RNK Split, is a Croatian football club based in the city of Split.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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S.B.V. Excelsior

S.B.V. Excelsior is a professional football club based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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SBV Vitesse

Stichting Betaald Voetbal Vitesse, commonly known as SBV Vitesse, Vitesse or Vitesse Arnhem, is a Dutch football club based in Arnhem, which was founded on 14 May 1892.

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Sheffield United F.C.

Sheffield United Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

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Sheffield Wednesday F.C.

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club is a professional association football club based in Sheffield, England.

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Sports league

A sports league is a group of sports teams that compete against each other in a specific sport.

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Stadium of Light

The Stadium of Light is an all-seater football stadium in Sunderland, England and home to Sunderland A.F.C. With space for 48,707 spectators, the Stadium of Light is the eighth largest stadium in England.

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Steel City derby

The Steel City Derby (or Sheffield Derby) is a local derby that takes place between Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, the two professional football league teams based in the city of Sheffield, England. It is widely considered one of the most passionate and hotly contested derby matches in English football. The teams have met competitively a total of 129 times, with United leading the meetings by 46 wins to Wednesday's 42 wins. The latest Steel City Derby was played on 12 January 2018, which ended in a goalless draw at Bramall Lane.

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Stjarnan

Ungmennafélagið Stjarnan, commonly known as Stjarnan, is an Icelandic multi-sports club specialising in handball, football, basketball, volleyball and gymnastics located in Garðabær.

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Sunderland A.F.C.

Sunderland Association Football Club is an English professional football club based in the city of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.

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Tiebreaker

In games and sports, a tiebreaker or tiebreak is used to determine a winner from among players or teams that are tied at the end of a contest, or a set of contests.

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Tottenham Hotspur F.C.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to simply as Tottenham or Spurs, is an English football club in Tottenham, London, England, that competes in the Premier League.

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Tynecastle Park

Tynecastle Park is a football stadium situated in the Gorgie area of Edinburgh, which is the home ground of Scottish Professional Football League club Heart of Midlothian ("Hearts").

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Vestmannaeyjar

Vestmannaeyjar (sometimes anglicized as Westman Islands) is a town and archipelago off the south coast of Iceland.

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Wigan Athletic F.C.

Wigan Athletic Football Club is a professional football club in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system.

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Willem II (football club)

Willem II, also known as Willem II Tilburg, is a Dutch football club based in Tilburg, Netherlands.

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1949–50 in English football

The 1949–50 season was the 70th season of competitive football in England.

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1951 Yugoslav First League

The First Federal League of Yugoslavia of 1951 (Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije), colloquially known as the Yugoslav First League of 1951, was the highest tier football competition played in communist Yugoslavia during 1951.

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1952–53 in English football

The 1952–53 season was the 73rd season of competitive football in England.

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1952–53 Scottish Division One

The 1952–53 Scottish Division One was won by Rangers on goal average over nearest rival Hibernian.

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1957–58 Yugoslav First League

The 1957–58 Yugoslav First League season was the 12th season of the First Federal League (Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946.

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1964–65 in Scottish football

The 1964–65 season was the 92nd season of competitive football in Scotland and the 68th season of Scottish league football.

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1970 FIFA World Cup

The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for men's national teams.

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1981–82 in English football

The 1981–82 season was the 102nd season of competitive football in England.

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1983–84 in English football

The 1983–84 season was the 104th season of competitive football in England.

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1985–86 in Scottish football

The 1985–86 season was the 89th season of competitive football in Scotland.

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1988–89 Football League

The 1988–89 season was the 90th completed season of the Football League.

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1989–90 in English football

The 1989–90 season was the 110th season of competitive football in England.

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1996–97 in English football

The 1996–97 season was the 117th season of competitive football in England.

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2002–03 Scottish Premier League

The 2002–03 Scottish Premier League (known as the 2001–02 Bank of Scotland Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the fifth season of the Scottish Premier League (SPL), the top level of football in Scotland.

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2010 Úrvalsdeild

The 2010 season of Úrvalsdeild was the 99th season of top-tier football in Iceland.

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2011–12 Premier League

The 2011–12 Premier League (known as the Barclays Premier League for sponsorship reasons) was the 20th season of the Premier League since its establishment in 1992.

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2013–14 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

The 2013–14 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, was the 112th season of top-tier football in Hungary.

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2016–17 in English football

The 2016–17 season was the 137th season of competitive association football in England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal_difference

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