Real Madrid's recent 40-game unbeaten streak brought to mind other similar impressive records.
The Romanian Steaua, which in 1986-1989 did not lose in 119 matches in a row, has no competition here!
The achievement is unique, especially since Steaua successfully played not only in the Romanian championship, but also in the European Cup, winning the tournament in 1986, and three years later reaching the final. But still I will talk about clubs from leading European championships.
Longest unbeaten streaks of European football clubs
Manchester United
- Year: 1998-1999.
- Matches without defeat: 33.
This is the same legendary United that made its own. The unbeaten streak of the Mancunians lasted exactly five months - from December 26, 1998 to May 26, 2999, and included the famous final.
Interestingly, before the start of the series, Manchester United lost at home to Mildsbrough 2:3. But after the first half, the “red devils” were 0:3, and in the second half they almost saved the game. And it was in that season that the famous concept of “Fergie time” appeared.
"Real Madrid
- Year: 1988-1989.
- Matches without defeat: 34.
That Real Madrid dominated Spain with five consecutive league titles, from 1986 to 1990.
At that time, there was still a limit on foreign players, so Real was ruled by the Spaniards - Sanchis, Michel, Butragueno, and the main striking force of the team was a foreigner - a Mexican scorer.
"Milan"
- Year: 1991-1992.
- Matches without defeat: 36.
This is perhaps the best team on this list. More precisely, we are talking about two teams at once: the series began under Arigo Sacchi, when Milan, under the Dutch trio - Rijkaard - demonstrated a brilliant attacking game.
"Real Madrid
- Year: 2016-2017.
- Matches without defeat: 40.
And here is the very series that prompted me to write an article. It lasted from April 9, 2016 to January 15, 2017, and was interrupted by Sevilla, with whom Real met three days earlier in the Spanish Cup and managed to escape with stoppage time - 3:3.
And who now remembers that before the start of the impressive series, Madrid, under the leadership, almost flew out of the Champions League from Wolfsburg?
"Milan"
- Year: 1992-1993.
- Matches without defeat: 42.
Again . But this time Don Fabio led the team for an impressive series alone.
Milan went on to win with a score of 1:0, which, however, did not stop them from defeating Barcelona with a score of 4:0.
Juventus
- Year: 2011-2012.
- Matches without defeat: 43.
Another Italian grandee who made an impressive breakthrough under the leadership. True, skeptics can find fault - after all, Juventus did not play in European competitions then.
But this is their business, and the “old lady” then won Serie A for the first time since “Calcipoli” without suffering a single defeat, and still continues to dominate the championship.
"Arsenal"
- Year: 2003-2004.
- Matches without defeat: 49.
Here I am being a little disingenuous - Arsenal did not lose in the English Championship, and they had defeats in cup tournaments, including in the Champions League. The most painful was the 1-2 loss at Highbury to Chelsea in the quarter-final return leg, with Wayne Bridge scoring three minutes before the end of the match.
But still, I celebrate this series, so to speak, out of competition, because not losing almost fifty matches in the Premier League is an almost impossible task.
If someone repeats it, I will remove Arsenal from this list. But I think that in the foreseeable future this will not be necessary.
Celtic can extend their unbeaten run in the Scottish Premier League to 55 matches against Hamilton Academical today. We remember the record-breaking series in the European championships.
In addition, everyone will remember our long unbeaten streak. Although, I won’t argue, it was achieved in the absence of fierce competition
Igor Prince
Shirak was a very good team back then. Of course, we had leaders, but all the players were just eager to get on the field
Andranik Adamyan
Capello brilliantly continued Sacchi's work. He just added a few pieces to create the perfect puzzle.
Roberto Donadoni
Of course, then even a draw was perceived by everyone as a huge surprise
Mikhail Zemlinsky
104 matches without defeat: Steaua (1986-1989)
The Old World record was set in the 80s, during the golden years of Steaua, which played under the leadership of Emeric Enei and then Angel Iordenescu. The Bucharest team won the 1985/86 European Cup, limited themselves to the semi-finals in the 1987/88 season, and reached the final in the next edition. Miodrag Belodedici, László Belényi, Marius Lacatus, Victor Pitsurka and Gavril Balint set the tone in a team that was invincible on the domestic scene. Steaua won the Romanian league five times in a row before losing the throne to Dinamo Bucharest in the 1989/90 season. During this period, Steaua also won 15 matches in a row in the Romanian Cup, taking into account which the unbeaten streak stretched to 119 games.
88: "Lincoln" (2009-2014)
On July 2, 2014, Lincoln became the first Gibraltar club to play in European competition. The team debuted with a draw with Tórshavn (1:1), but then suffered a defeat in the Faroe Islands (2:5). At the same time, Lincoln is definitely not used to defeats, because from May 9, 2009 to September 19, 2014, this club did not lose a single match in the Gibraltar Premier League. This, by the way, is the longest period of time without defeat for the European championships. The series coincided with a golden era in Lincoln's history - from 2003 to 2016, the club won 14 championship titles in a row, repeating the record of Riga's Skonto.
63: "Sheriff" (2006-2008)
Under the leadership of Belarusian coach Leonid Kuchuk, the most titled club in Moldova went undefeated in the national championship for two years. In the 2006/07 season, the team from Tiraspol set a unique record for the country - they became champions without losing a single match. Sheriff's streak was interrupted in March 2008 by its most important rival, Zimbru. However, this did not prevent the yellow-blacks from again winning the gold medals that the Pridnestrovian club was awarded in 2001-2010 and 2012-2014.
63: Celtic (1915-1917)
Under the leadership of their first manager, Willie Maley, Celtic set a British record of going unbeaten in 62 matches in a row between November 1915 and April 1917. The Celts did not flinch, even when they had to play two games in one day - against Raith Rovers and Motherwell. The Celtic team featured Patsy Gallagher, Jimmy “Napoleon” McMenemy and Alec McNair, aka Icicle, the club record holder for most matches played (604).
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"Levadia" - Estonian record holder
61: "Levadia" (2008-2009)
Under the leadership of Igor Prince, who later coached Nomme Kalju, Levadia did not lose in the Estonian championship from May 2008 to November 7, 2009, when in the penultimate round the Tallinn team lost to Trans Narva. “Our main goal is to win the championship, which we did for the fourth year in a row. In addition, everyone will remember our long unbeaten streak. Although, I won’t argue, it was achieved in the absence of tough competition,” Prince said then.
60: Union Saint-Gilles (1933-1935)
The unbeaten streak of the Belgian Union was interrupted in February 1933, when it lost to Daring. In total, in the years 1933-1935, the club from the outskirts of Brussels won three championship titles. To commemorate Union's achievement in Belgium, a prize is awarded annually to the team that goes undefeated the longest. The trophy is named after the captain of the Sengilians, Jules Papper, the leader of Union along with Vital van Landeghem, who in 1934 became the best sniper of the Belgian championship with 29 goals.
59: "Shirak" (1993-1995), "Pyunik" (2002-2004)
In the Armenian championships, two teams showed the best unbeaten streak: “Shirak” and “Pyunik”. Attacking midfielder Artur Petrosyan and central defender Harutyun Vardanyan shone for Shirak. The permanent coach of the team was Andranik Adamyan. Recalling those years, he said: “Shirak” was a very good team then. Of course, we had leaders, but all the players were simply eager to get on the field. There was a working atmosphere in the team; we had a winning mentality."
Pyunik was coached by three different specialists for two years. The team began its successful streak under the leadership of Oscar Lopez, continued with Mihai Stojkica and ended with Vardan Minasyan. The leading players of Pyunik were the brothers Arman and Artavazd Karamyan, and in 2004 - Edgar Manucharyan and Galust Petrosyan, who scored 21 goals each and became the top scorers of the championship.
58: Milan (1991-1993)
Under the leadership of Arrigo Sacchi, Milan won the European Cup in 1989 and 1990. No wonder the public nicknamed that team “immortals”. In 1992-1994, the Rossoneri, led by Fabio Capello, became champions of Italy three times in a row, and also won the 1993/94 UEFA Champions League. That Milan was already called “invulnerable”. In the 1991/92 campaign, the red and blacks won the Scudetto without losing a single match in Serie A. “Capello continued Sacchi’s work brilliantly. He just added a few elements to put together the perfect mosaic,” recalls former Milan midfielder Roberto Donadoni.
58: Olympiacos (1972-1974)
Club president Nikos Goulandris, who made his fortune in shipbuilding, invested huge amounts of money in Olympiacos, and the results were not long in coming. Under the leadership of Lakis Petropoulos, the club went on a long unbeaten streak. It lasted from victory to defeat in matches with PAOK in October 1972 and April 1974, respectively. In 1972-1975, Olympiacos became the champion of Greece three times in a row, in the 1973/74 campaign setting a record for the number of goals scored - 104. The team leader was Yves Triantafyllos, who scored 58 goals in 80 matches over three years. Also starring were Giorgos Delikaris, Michalis Kritikopoulos and Romain Aryiroudis.
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"Milan" model 1993
58: "Skonto" (1993-1996)
In the 90s, Skonto had no equal in Latvian football. For three years in a row (1993-1996), the Riga team did not lose in the domestic arena, bringing the unbeaten streak to 58 matches. The team of Alexander Starkov, who at that time was just beginning his glorious path in the coaching field, included all the leading football players in Latvia. Vitaly Astafiev, Yuri Shevlyakov, Mikhail Zemlinsky, Vladimir Babichev and many others - they formed the stronghold of not only Skonto, but also the national team.
“Of course, then even a draw was perceived by everyone as a huge surprise,” says long-time captain of “Skonto” Zemlinsky. “For us, the loss of points was a sensitive blow, because in every match we were confident of victory. In those years, a victorious spirit was developed.” Skonto", which allowed us to win the Latvian championship for 14 years in a row (this record was recently repeated by Gibraltar's Lincoln). In 1994 and 1995, we did not lose a single match in the national championship, and in 1996 we lost to Daugava, in in whose ranks the scorer Mikhail Micholap shone. The next season he already began to score as part of Skonto.
56: Benfica (1976-1978)
“Porto” fell one match short of the national record, which belongs to “Benfica” during the time of English coach John Mortimore. Fernando Chalana, Humberto Coelho, Toni, Nene, Manuel Bento, Sheu, João Alves and Minervina Pietra played under him. In the Portuguese Championship, Benfica did not lose from October 1976 to August 1978, when they lost to Porto on the road with a minimal score.
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James Rodriguez shone at Porto in 2012
55: Porto (2010-2012)
The unbeaten run began under Jesualdo Ferreira and continued under Andre Villas-Boas, with whom Porto won the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League. Vitor Pereira failed to support the initiatives of his predecessors, whose team lost away to Gil Vicente - 1:3. "We showed complete indifference. This is unacceptable for a team that wants to become champions," Pereira said. Be that as it may, Porto broke its own record of 53 consecutive matches unbeaten from 1994-1996 under Bobby Robson.
55: Shakhtar Donetsk (2000-2002)
The miners' unbeaten streak began in June 2000, when they defeated Niva Ternopil with a score of 2:1. In January 2002, coach Viktor Prokopenko left the team, but Shakhtar continued to show excellent results under the leadership of Italian specialist Nevio Scala. He managed to get the most out of stars such as Anatoly Tymoshchuk, Andrey Vorobey, Julius Agakhova, Isaac Okoronkwo, Brandao and Mariusz Lewandowski. As a result, in the 2001/02 campaign, Shakhtar became the champion of Ukraine for the first time. The Donetsk team's unbeaten streak was interrupted in the sixth round of the next championship, and after three more matches Skala left Shakhtar.
1) Celtic: 62 games (1915 - 1917)
Under Willie Maili, Celtic went on a staggering 62-game unbeaten run almost a century ago, helping them to 3 league titles in a row. It's even more impressive when you consider that in 1916 they once had to play twice in one day, first beating Motherwell before heading home to beat Raith Rovers 6-0. Maley was appointed coach in 1897 and spent 43 years in this post, winning 16 national championships and 14 Scottish Cups.
2) Peñarol: 56 games (1966-1969)
The Uruguayan giants went 56 matches unbeaten in the late 60s, having won the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup in 1966. That Copa Libertadores was won after one of the most memorable comebacks in the history of the competition: Penarol was down 0-2 with 25 minutes left, but they managed to score twice in 6 minutes and celebrate the victory with a final score of 4-2 in extra time. They then beat Real Madrid 4-0 to become world champions. The unbeaten streak eventually ended in September 1969, but before that Roque Maspoli and Rafael Milans won the national championship twice.
3) Steaua: 104 games (1986-1989)
The Romanians lasted 104 matches without defeat, for 3 whole seasons no one could beat them, and this allowed Steaua to take 3 championship titles and the Champions Cup, where in the final they beat Barcelona in Seville on penalties. Regardless of what can be argued about the competitiveness of Romanian football at that time (and what about the modern one? - Translator's note), Angel Iordenescu's team demonstrated their level, reaching the semi-finals of the most prestigious club championship in Europe in 1988 and the final the following year. a year where they were declassed by the legendary Milan with a score of 4-0, allowing Arrigo Sacchi to take his first European crown.
4) ASEC Mimosas: 108 games (1989-1994)
The Ivorians remained invincible for 5 whole years, the first 3 their mentor was the Frenchman Philippe Troussier, who then worked in Nigeria, Japan, South Africa and Marseille. With the help of goalkeeper Alain Guamene, who, along with Donal Siez, later joined Toulouse, Abdoulaye Traoré and Basile Kouame, the Mimosas won 6 Ivory Coast titles before the run ended with a 1-2 defeat against Army.
5) Milan: 58 games (1991-1993)
Arrigo Sacchi laid a wonderful foundation, but Capello could not have imagined that his life in Milan would begin this way, as he led Milan to Serie A title in 1991-1992 without a single defeat. Their series eventually ended with the efforts of Parma and Faustino Asprilla in 1993, but it did not matter - Don Fabio retained the title for another 2 seasons, and the climax was the final with Barcelona in the Champions League final in 1994, where Milan finished off Barca with a score of 4- 0. Milan's performance in that match is considered by many to be the best in the history of football at the club level.
6) Ajax: 52 games (1994-1996)
Van Der Sar, Reiziger, the De Boer brothers, Davids, Seedorf, Rijkaard, Blind, Kanu Overmars, Litmanen (the tears welled up - translator's note) - the famous Van Gaal line-up shows the "xy of the xy" in Dutch football of the last 20 years. In 1994-95 they went the entire season unbeaten in both the domestic league and the Champions League, where they eventually beat Milan in the final thanks to the only year of 18-year-old Kluivert coming on as a substitute. They would lose the next Champions League final to Juventus on penalties, after which a mass exodus of players from Ajax would spell the end of one of the greatest teams in the history of European football.
7) Boca Juniors: 40 games (1998-1999)
The Bianchi Boys surpassed Racing's record of 39 games without defeat, which had stood for 33 years. This happened when Carlos Bianchi led Boca Juniors to a 40-match undefeated streak, helping to capture two league titles along the way. Their series ended with defeat from Independiente. But all this was just a prelude to the greatest period in the team's history, in which they won 3 of 4 Copa Libertadores and 2 World Cup titles, beating Real Madrid in 2000 and Milan on penalties in 2003. Current Boca coach Julio Falcioni came close to repeating record, having played a streak of 33 unbeaten matches, which allowed them to take the Apertura championship last season. The series ended in a dramatic match, in which Boca lost to Independiente with a score of 4-5.
8) Arsenal: 49 games (2003-2004)
Wenger's "unbreakable" galloped to the top of the 2003-2004 Premier League season and became the first team in a century to go through the season without defeat. They weren't able to produce the same football in the Champions League as Chelsea knocked them out at the quarter-final stage, but the core of the team, consisting of Sol Campbell, Patrick Vier, Dennis Bergkamp and the electrifying Henry, produced some of the best football I've ever seen this is an English game.
9) Porto: 55 games (2010-2012)
Andre Villas-Boas must have taken his coaching success for granted when he joined Chelsea after leading Porto unbeaten and winning the Portuguese league, domestic cup and Europa League. The run began under the leadership of Jesualdo Ferreira, AVB continued it until he packed his bags for London, and it was interrupted under the leadership of his successor, Vitor Pereira, when Porto lost to Gil Vicente with a score of 1-3. They broke the record of Sir Bobby Robson, who was Porto manager from 1994 to 1996, when they went 53 games without defeat.
10) Juventus: 44 games, to be continued (2011-)
Juventus became only the 3rd team in the history of Italian football to go through a season unbeaten, which allowed them to win the Scudetto last year. Juventus' fine form in Serie A has continued into this season, despite Conte's 10-month ban. Juve also showed character last week, making a comeback after 0-2 at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea.
Original article: http://www.goal.com/en/slideshow/456
Not everyone knows how to win, but winning for a long time is a completely unique skill that brings incredible pleasure. "SE" found 10 striking examples of the longest series of victories in European football championships.
29 wins
Tournament: Portuguese top division
Episode duration: from April 9, 1972 to April 1, 1973
In the 60s and 70s, Benfica was a monster club. This Goliath has reached five European Cup finals and won two of them. Over two decades, the “eagles” won gold 14 (!) times in Portugal. The team where Eusebio shone was capable of any records, and the curse of Bela Guttman seemed like a stupid superstition. Moreover, in smooth championships it did not work and could not prevent Benfica from establishing a unique achievement - 29 victories in a row in the Portuguese championship. The long triumphal march lasted for almost a year - at the end of the 1971/72 season, the "eagles" won 6 matches, and then produced a crazy championship in 1972/73 - 28 wins with two draws. One of them interrupted the super series - on April 1, 1973, Porto forward Flavio Minuanu equalized the score in the match with Benfica four minutes before the end of regular time and stopped the long, vigorous march of the Lisboners.
28 wins
Tournament: Croatian first league
Episode duration: from November 8, 2006 to September 23, 2007
Mandzukic, Modric, Eduardo, Corluka - the leaders of Dinamo Zagreb in the mid-2000s made excellent careers in strong European championships. It is not surprising that a team with such a collection of young talents crushed everyone left and right in the domestic championship. The winning streak began in the 2006/07 season, continued in the next championship, did not lose for a long time, but Dynamo failed to reach Benfica’s record. They knew about the Portuguese achievement, dreamed of surpassing it, but everything was ruined by the modest Vartex. In a fiery match, the team from Varazdin snatched victory from the local giants - 4:3.
28 wins
Tournament: Hungarian Championship
Episode duration: from season 1930/31 to season 1932/33
"Ferencvaros".
There are not even normal calendars with dates left from those Hungarian championships, but quite a lot is known about the exploits of Ferencvaros. These dashing guys won the league in the 1931/32 season with fantastic results - 22 wins in 22 matches, 105 goals scored and 18 missed. And the overall winning streak lasted for three long seasons.
22 wins
Tournament: Dutch championship
Episode duration: from April 26, 1986 to January 17, 1988
Guus Hiddink showed his first coaching miracle to the world in Eindhoven. He came to PSV 10 rounds before the end of the 1986/87 season and not only managed to overtake Ajax in the golden race at the finish line, but also launched a long winning super series. To the six wins in the spring of 1987, the red and white added 16 victories the following season and easily won gold in the local championship, and also took the Dutch Cup and the Champions Cup.
19 wins
Tournament: German Bundesliga
Episode duration: from October 19, 2013 to March 29, 2014
Pep Guardiola began the Bavarian part of his coaching career not so festively - with a defeat by Borussia Dortmund in the German Super Cup. However, after a couple of friendly matches, everything returned to normal: the Bavarians beat Chelsea in the battle for another Super Cup - the European one - and began to smash everyone in the Bundesliga. By the end of October, Robben, Muller, Mandzukic and company had forgotten not only about defeats, but also about draws. By the end of March, Bayern had already secured the Bundesliga championship and allowed themselves to relax a little, breaking a long streak - a draw with Hoffenheim stopped the counter at 19 victories.
17 wins
Tournament: Italian Serie A
Episode duration: from October 25, 2006 to February 28, 2007
This Inter series is a direct consequence of Calciopoli. By the end of the summer of 2006, Serie A was turned into a scorched earth - Juventus was relegated to the lower division, Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina started the season with negative point handicaps. Freed from its competitors, Inter flew the entire long distance in one breath - only one defeat in the entire championship and a magnificent long 17-match winning streak from mid-autumn to the end of winter.
16 wins
Tournament: spanish primera
Episode duration: from March 2, 2016 to September 21, 2016
Last year's Real Madrid record can be called the "Zidane Series". A great player, but a completely unknown coach, replaced the failed Rafa Benitez in January and in a couple of months turned the Royal Club into a winning machine. True, even a long series of 12 wins at the end did not allow them to catch up with Barcelona. Madrid received compensation by beating Atlético Madrid in the Champions League final, and the following season they succeeded on all fronts - they took gold for the first time in 5 years and will again play in the decisive match for the main European Cup. And the leader of the Royal Club, Cristiano Ronaldo, after the end of the club season, will have a chance to build on his successes in the Portuguese national team at the Confederations Cup.
16 matches
Tournament: spanish primera
Episode duration: from October 16, 2010 to February 12, 2011
Another record from Pep Guardiola. In the 2010/11 season, his Barcelona came close to winning three tournaments, but lost to Real Madrid in the Copa del Rey final. But the Champions League and gold examples have not disappeared from the Catalans. The Spanish Championship is sometimes called the "tournament of two clubs". This is not always the case, but in that draw Barcelona and Real Madrid were truly head and shoulders above all their opponents. Even a long 16-match winning streak did not allow the Catalans to run far - in the final table they were only 4 points ahead of Madrid - 96 versus 92.
14 wins
Tournament: english premier league
Episode duration: from February 10, 2002 to August 24, 2002
Now Arsenal fans are demanding the resignation of Arsene Wenger and wince painfully when they see the number four, but at the beginning of the 2000s everything was different. They prayed for the French coach and counted not the points separating him from getting into the Champions League, but trophies and victories. At the end of the 2001/02 season, the Gunners won 13 matches in a row and became champions of England for the second time under Wenger. The winning streak continued into the next season, although only one match was added to it.
13 wins
Tournament: Russian Premier League
Episode duration: from March 15, 2014 to August 17, 2014
Leonid SLUTSKY. Photo by Alexander FEDOROV, "SE"
The Russian record for winning streak in the championship belongs to CSKA. In the spring of 2014, Leonid Slutsky won 10 matches in a row and took the gold from the amazed Zenit. The army team's long record-breaking streak began with the victory over the blue-white-blue. It also ended symbolically - with a defeat from Spartak.
29 - Benfica (Portugal) 1971-73
The Portuguese hold the European record, which they set in the early 70s. The 29-game winning streak began at the end of the 1971-72 gold-winning season and lasted for most of the following season. At the end of the 1972/73 season, Benfica became the first club not to suffer a single defeat in the Portuguese championship. Eusebio, who was brilliant in those years, later noted the contribution of the English coach Jimmy Hagan: “He liked discipline. All the players thought that his training was incredibly exhausting, but as soon as the team started winning, we realized that it was worth it. He gave us extra strength, and therefore We won three championships in a row during that period."
28 - Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 2006-07
Eduardo, Luka Modric and Vedran Corluka grew up in a team that had no equal in Croatia. The defeat of Istra on November 8, 2006 with a score of 5:1 marked the beginning of a winning streak, which was interrupted only on September 23, 2007, when the Zagreb team lost to Vartex (now Varazdin) - 3:4. On the eve of that meeting, Dynamo coach Branko Ivankovic said: “We have a great team, and Dynamo is a great club. We are going to win the 29th match in a row and repeat Benfica’s record, so that the current generation of Dynamo players will take their rightful place in the history of the world.” football". It must be a shame.
"Celtic": favorites
25 - Celtic (Scotland) 2003-04
Having won 25 victories in a row from August 16, 2003 to February 29, 2004, Celtic set a new record in British football. During this period, Martin O'Neill's team scored 86 goals, winning the championship and the Scottish Cup. A worthy end to Henrik Larsson's last season with the Celts! “During that series, we approached each match with thoughts only of victory,” said the former defender Johan Mjallby. - If a team wants to win, it’s difficult to stop it. Especially when you have guys like Henrik, Chris Sutton and John Hartson scoring goals for fun."
25 - Dynamo Tirana (Albania) 1951-52
Dynamo was born in 1950 and won four championships in a row. In the middle of this successful period, the team marked a long winning streak. It began on April 18, 1951 in a match with Pune, and ended on June 1, 1952 with a goalless draw in a match with the same opponent. Dinamo, which has won the national championship 18 times, is in second place on the list of the most titled Albanian clubs, but after relegation from the elite in the 2011/12 season, the team from Tirana plays in the second strongest division.
24 - Red Star (Serbia) 2015-16
In the period between two draws, on July 21, 2015 with Radnicki (1:1) and on April 2, 2016 with Vojvodina (0:0), Miodrag Bozovic's team crushed everyone who came their way in the Serbian Super League. In total, Belgrade won 24 matches in a row, including both derbies with Partizan. "Any adventure like this is exciting, and we enjoyed it while it lasted. Our series has come to an end, but such things are inevitable," Bozovic said.
23 - Malmö (Sweden) 1949-50
The team crowned the golden season of 1948/49 with five victories at the finish line, and began the campaign for a new championship title by defeating Elfsborg (2:0) on June 31, 1949. After that, Malmö did not lose points until May 14, 1950, when they played away in a draw with AIK.
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22 - PSV (Netherlands) 1987-88
Having taken the lead in the final five matches of the 1986/87 season, PSV left no chance for their opponents in the next campaign, even despite the departure of Ruud Gullit. Hans van Breukelen, Ronald Koeman, Eric Gerets, Berry van Aarle, Jan Heintze, Ivan Nielsen, Søren Lerby, Gerald Vanenburg, Wim Kieft and the experienced Willy van de Kerkhof, under the leadership of Guus Hiddink, who was then still learning the intricacies of the coaching profession, were a team that could not be resisted it was no use. The winning streak of the Eindhoven team was stopped on January 16, 1988 by Twente, who achieved a draw with a score of 2:2. This, however, did not prevent PSV from winning the championship and the Dutch Cup, as well as the European Champions Cup.
22 - "Kapaz" (Azerbaijan) 1997-98
Mehman Allahverdiev's team from the 1997/98 season remains the only one who managed to win the Azerbaijani championship without a single defeat. For 10 months, until September 23, 1998, Kapaz managed without any point losses. However, it will be important to note that among the 22 victories, two were technical.
19 - Bayern (Germany) 2013-14
18 - Hafnarfjörður (Iceland) 2004-05
17 - Olympiacos (Greece) 2005-06, 2015-16
17 - Steaua (Romania) 1988
17 - Dinamo Bucharest (Romania) 1988
17 - Internazionale (Italy) 2006-07
16 - "Valur" (Iceland) 1978
16 - Barcelona (Spain) 2010-11
16 - APOEL (Cyprus) 2008-09
15 - Benfica (Portugal) 1963
15 - Real Madrid (Spain) 1960-61
15 - Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) 1999-00
15 - Bangor City (Wales) 2010
