RCN News
September 29, 2026
07:21 a. m.
The Football Observatory of the International Center for Sports Studies (CIES) published the ranking of the slowest leagues in the world, taking into account distances traveled at less than 15km/h, and the BetPlay league appears in position 5 on the list with an 81.3% average.
According to the report, based on data from SkillCorner, Colombian soccer players only use maximum speed or make more agile movements in only 18.7% of the distance traveled; More than 60 leagues were analyzed and, within the top 5, there are three South American soccer leagues.
Ranking of the slowest leagues in the world
The UAE Pro League of the Arab Emirates occupies first place in the ranking; It is followed by the Pro League of Ecuador, League 1 of Peru, the Chinese Super League and the BetPlay League completing the top 5 on the list that does not leave Colombian football in a good position; The top 10 is completed by the leagues of Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Romania, South Korea and Paraguay.
To create the list, the specialized data pages only take into account performance figures of the teams and players directly on the playing field and do not analyze other factors such as technical/tactical quality, effective playing time or geographical variables of each region.
Criticisms on social networks by number of older players
Once the ranking was published, social media users and Colombian soccer followers attributed this statistic to the number of older players who have arrived in the BetPlay League in recent years; The most radical did not waste the information to refer to the last two signings that came to the league, James Rodríguez and Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, despite the fact that the new Millonarios player has not yet played any minutes with the ‘ambassador’ club.