We are not strictly counting years. Or else the debate ends with just some numbers taken from rsssf. That is boring! We should look beyond the numbers. 1) The club should win regularly before the drought. For example, Aston Villa or Nothingham Forrest should not count. It's counting numbers again.. 2) It must still be a major club now. The club should not be a club that faded away and beyond repair. We should not talk about Blackpool or Stade Reims. 3) We should weight in with the background. For example, the history of the league and club are important. Let's say Bayern Munich, Celtic, etc should count more since they always dominate the domestic league. 4) We should not count those minor trophies won during the drought years. We are talking about trophies that are important to the clubs.
ok well since no Peruvian club has ever won the Copa Libertadores, the one trophy that "matters" is the national championship Alianza Lima are one of the two most popular clubs in Peru, the home of Teofilo Cubillas and Jefferson Farfan among others they went 18 years without a National Championship from 1979 till 1997
Villa were actually a very successful club before the 1920s. Up to 1920 they won 6 titles and 6 FA Cups - both were the highest totals by any English club. They went 37 years without winning the FA Cup and 70 without winning the League.
River Plate was dominant in Argentina in the 1950s. They won titles in five out of six tournaments, in 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957. Then the drought came. They didn't win another title for seventeen years, until 1975. Keep in mind that since 1967 there were two tournaments per year, which means that River failed to win a title in 25 consecutive Argentine tournaments. The odd thing is that River had some great players and great teams during that stretch. They came close to winning quite often, and in fact finished in second place 11 times. Then starting in 75 they picked up where they had left off in the 50's, winning five titles between 1975 and 1979.
Sporting C.P Went 18 years without winning the league title from 1982-2000. 1940–41 1943–44 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1957–58 1961–62 1965–66 1969–70 1973–74 1979–80 1981–82 1999–2000 2001–02 during the bold part, Sporting had the most league titles up until the 60s but was since over taken in overall titles from Benfica and then FC Porto.
If they don't win it this season, Liverpool will have gone 19 years without winning the league title despite obtaining continental trophies, FA cups etc during this same time period. Universidad de Chile went 25 years (1969-94) without winning the Chilean national title, this after following a golden era where they won numerous championships and fielded half the national team that earned third place in the 1962 World Cup. Olympique de Marseille, the only CL winners in France have not won a national league title since 1992. This drought may end this season since they are ranked first in the table with 5 matches to go.
the 1987 had an impact...at that point they where 8 years into the trophyless run i believe they where fighting for the championship at that point so losing most of the squad(few players didn't fly cause of injuries) affected them greatly in the following years
Corinthians in Brazil went 23 years without winning a Paulista championship (or any National championships) from 1954 to 1977. They are Sao Paulo's biggest team and Brazil's 2nd biggest. They had 15 Paulistas up until 54 and 25 total today. My team Palmeiras, their biggest rivals, ironically enough started their drought in 1976 ... the year before Corinthians ended theirs. We went 17 years without winning anything. We had 18 Paulistas and 2 Brazilian championships (this competition only started in 1971) up until 76. We ended our drought in 1993.
Man Utd has a worst drought than Liverpool. They failed to win the league from 1967 until 1992. Of course, liked Liverpool, they won other trophies in between. SAF was one match away from being sacked in that period.
Saint Etienne were dominant in the 70s and haven't won Ligue 1 since 1981. They ended up in the lower divisions for a while but came back and finished 5th two seasons ago. They nearly ended up being relegated again last season. This is somewhat related but Bordeaux won their Ligue 1 title ten years after they won their previous one.
Trapattoni led Benefica to its first Portugese Liga title in 2005, the first in eleven years (the 1993-1994 season was Benefica's last championship). Granted, Porto have won it every year since 2005 though haha
Not sure if these count http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MLS_club_post-season_droughts Particularly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MLS_club_post-season_droughts#MLS_Cup_droughts
Considering that my team, AIK from Stockholm (NOT Solna!), is by far the most popular club in Sweden, it's extraordinary that we didn't win one league title from 1938 until 1991. In 1992 we eventually won after a thriller in the very last minutes of the season. But 55 years waiting.. that's almost a man's life
Newcastle United - large crowds at every home game, won the league 4 times and the FA Cup 5 times but nothing since 1955...