Clubs in Europe’s top leagues to have never been relegated

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Spain

Real Madrid, Barcelona, Athletic Bilbao

Neither Real Madrid or Barcelona have ever been relegated, maybe no shock given the home dominance of Spanish soccer’s main superpowers. The two have received a mixed 62 La Liga titles and 19 Champions League trophies, with the duo usually considered world soccer’s main golf equipment.

There is, nevertheless, a 3rd entrant from Spain in Athletic Bilbao. The eight-time champions have extremely by no means been relegated, regardless of a 110-year switch coverage that restricts the membership’s recruitment to gamers born or raised within the Basque Country. Given the Basque Country has a inhabitants of round simply 2.2m folks, it’s an astonishing feat.

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Germany

Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Wolfsburg, FC Augsburg, Hoffenheim

Bayern Munich have by no means been relegated from the Bundesliga since incomes promotion into the division forward of the 1965/66 season. However, the Bavarians had been relegated from high tier regional soccer a decade earlier, dropping from the Oberliga Süd to the 2. Oberliga Süd.

Wolfsburg and Bayer Leverkusen had been additionally relegated from a top-tier league previous to the institution of the Bundesliga, however have been ever-presents since entry into the division.

Hoffenheim or FC Augsburg have by no means been relegated from the Bundesliga, however have been top-division groups for a shorter interval time after arriving within the high league in 2008 and 2011 respectively.

Italy

Inter Milan, Sassuolo

Inter Milan are the one Italian crew to have by no means been relegated from the highest division of Italian soccer and to have competed within the high tier in each season since their debut in 1909.

Inter’s 19 league titles are the second-most in Italian soccer historical past behind Juventus, although the latter had been relegated to the second tier after their involvement within the 2006 Calciopoli match-fixing scandal.

AC Milan, who’ve additionally received 19 league titles, had been twice relegated within the early eighties, the primary of which was a results of the Totonero match-fixing scandal.

Sassuolo haven’t been relegated from the highest division since being promoted to Serie A in 2013.

France

Paris Saint-Germain

Paris Saint-Germain had been shaped in 1970 after a merger between Paris FC and Stade Saint-Germain. The new membership received promotion to Ligue 1 throughout its inaugural season and has remained there ever since, happening to grow to be France’s most profitable aspect.

PSG have now received a file 11 league titles, 9 of which have come for the reason that membership’s Qatari-backed takeover in 2011.

Netherlands

Ajax, PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord, FC Utrecht

Since the introduction {of professional} soccer within the Netherlands in 1954/55, the ‘Big Three’ of Ajax, PSV Eindhoven and Feyenoord have didn’t win the top-flight title in simply seven seasons.

None of that trio have ever been relegated from the Eredivisie, with 60 mixed titles received.

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FC Utrecht have additionally by no means been relegated since being shaped in 1970, following a merger between VV DOS, USV Elinkwijk and Velox.