Champions Scorigami

In 8,074 matches across the UEFA Champions League since 1955, only 41 unique scorelines have occurred. This is every full-time final score in the competition's history.

by rahul

What is scorigami?

A scorigami is a final score that has never happened before in the history of a competition. Coined by Jon Bois for American football, it can be applied to any sport. In football, the score space is unsurprisingly small: most matches end somewhere in a 6×4 box.

Reading the grid

Each cell represents a unique scoreline. The x-axis is the winning team's goals, the y-axis is the losing team's goals. Draws sit on the diagonal. Darker = happened more often. Empty (black) cells are scorelines that have never occurred: potential future scorigami.

About the data

  • Data covers the UEFA Champions League from 1955 (European Cup era) to the present season, sourced from our parser from open datasets and local match history files.
  • Only full-time scores are counted — extra time and penalty shootout results are excluded.
  • The modern era starts with the 1992/93 season, when the competition became the Champions League format.
  • In the default view, scorelines are normalised: a 3-1 win is the same cell regardless of which team won or where the match was played. Switch to Home / Away view to unfold the grid.
  • "All-Time" covers every match in the UEFA Champions League (including the 1950s-1990s European Cup period).
  • Data: James P. Curley (2016). engsoccerdata: English Soccer Data 1871-2016. R package version 0.1.5.

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