The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Nja²⁴⁷ 08:40, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of champions of major European football leagues[edit]

List of champions of major European football leagues (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

WP:LISTCRUFT. No justification why these leagues are the "major" leagues - other leagues have been in the top five of UEFA's coefficient listing (indeed, England was banned from Europe completely for a while). The former USSR, Netherlands and Belgium have all been in the top 5 of the rankings per Bert Kassies in the last 20 years (eg1 [1]. No reason either for the champions being listed from 1985 only. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 06:19, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football related deletions. GiantSnowman 10:12, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. GiantSnowman 10:11, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Football-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:14, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:14, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 12:15, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comments - further to the listcruft point, why five leagues, rather than any other number of "major" leagues? This article is also redundant to List of English football champions, etc. Jmorrison230582 (talk) 16:14, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. As Mr Morrison has said, this all-in-one list is redundant to nation-specific lists. Bettia (bring on the trumpets!) 14:14, 9 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --Jameboy (talk) 20:05, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.