Statistical comparison of the European top leagues

18 Dec 2012 | Henrik Lundqvist

In which league are most goals scored? Which teams and leagues have the highest attendance numbers? Who is the highest scoring U20 player? Who are the +/- leaders in the European top leagues? We compare KHL, Elitserien, SM-Liiga, DEL, NLA, EBEL and Czech and Slovak Extraliga.

The international break that most of the European leagues had ends today and all the big leagues start playing again. We have compared eight of the top leagues and present to you here the result.

Goals/game

EBEL 6.51

Extraliga (SVK) 6.15

NLA 6.13

Extraliga (CZE) 5.75

DEL 5.67

SM-Liiga 5.47

KHL 5.40

Elitserien 4.80

% of goals scored on PP

SM-Liiga 29.4%

Extraliga (SVK) 28.8%

KHL 28.7%

EBEL 27.5%

DEL 27.4%

Elitserien 24.9%

Extraliga (CZE) N/A

NLA N/A

% of goals scored shorthanded

DEL 4.3%

EBEL 4.0%

Extraliga (SVK) 4.0%

SM-Liiga 3.6%

KHL 3.3%

Elitserien 2.9%

Extraliga (CZE) N/A

NLA N/A

Teams with most goals scored/game

Extraliga (SVK) Zvolen 4.13

EBEL EC VSV 3.90

KHL SKA St. Petersburg 3.66

DEL Eisbären 3.65

Extraliga (CZE) Trinec 3.60

NLA Zug 3.55

SM-Liiga Kärpät 3.23

Elitserien Skellefteå 3.13

Teams with most goals against/game

EBEL Innsbruck 5.13

NLA SCL Tigers 4.11

Extraliga (SVK) Skalica 3.87

KHL Avtomobilist 3.65

SM-Liiga Pelicans 3.61

DEL Düsseldorf 3.55

Extraliga (CZE) Liberec 3.39

Elitserien Rögle 3.06

Teams with fewest goals scored/game

Elitserien Timrå 1.81

NLA SCL Tigers 2.04

KHL Dinamo Riga 2.06

SM-Liiga Ilves 2.07

DEL Düsseldorf 2.21

EBEL Innsbruck 2.27

Extraliga (CZE) Chomutov 2.30

Extraliga (SVK) Mountfield 2.45

Teams with fewest goals against/game

Elitserien Luleå 1.66

KHL Lokomotiv 2.06

EBEL Vienna 2.13

Extraliga (CZE) Plzen 2.27

DEL Krefeld 2.33

NLA SC Bern 2.33

Extraliga (SVK) Piestany 2.35

SM-Liiga JYP/Ässät 2.40

League leaders - % of points won

Extraliga (SVK) Zvolen 80.6%

KHL Dynamo Moscow 73.7%

EBEL Vienna 71.7%

DEL Kölner Haie 66.7%

Extraliga (CZE) Plzen 65.6%

Elitserien HV71 64.5%

NLA Fribourg 63.3%

SM-Liiga Jokerit 61.5%

Last placed teams - % of points won

EBEL Innsbruck 18.3%

NLA SCL Tigers 19.0%

KHL Avtomobilist 23.5%

Elitserien Rögle 25.8%

DEL Düsseldorf 27.6%

SM-Liiga Ilves 32.2%

Extraliga (SVK) Zilina 35.5%

Extraliga (CZE) Karlovy Vary 36.7%

Difference between best and worst team

EBEL 53.4%

KHL 50.2%

Extraliga (SVK) 45.1%

NLA 44.3%

DEL 39.1%

Elitserien 38.7%

SM-Liiga 29.3%

Extraliga (CZE) 28.9%

Spectators/game

NLA 6576

KHL 6183

DEL 5685

Elitserien 5629

Extraliga (CZE) 5284

SM-Liiga 5247

EBEL 3481

Extraliga (SVK) N/A

Teams with most spectators/game

NLA SC Bern 16296

KHL Dinamo Minsk 14215

DEL Eisbären Berlin 14016

SM-Liiga Jokerit 9658

Elitserien Frölunda 8721

Extraliga (CZE) Pardubice 8219

EBEL Zagreb 7948

Extraliga (SVK) N/A

Teams with fewest spectators/game

EBEL Innsbruck 1794

DEL Wolfsburg 2062

KHL Vityaz 2875

Extraliga (CZE) Karlovy Vary 3507

SM-Liiga Lukko 3895

Elitserien Rögle 4039

NLA HC Davos 4627

Extraliga (SVK) N/A

Penalty minutes/game

Extraliga (SVK) 34.5

DEL 34.1

EBEL 33.3

Extraliga (CZE) 31.1

SM-Liiga 26.0

KHL 25.4

Elitserien 20.0

NLA N/A

Teams with most penalty minutes/game

EBEL Graz 29.13

Extraliga (SVK) Zilina 23.81

DEL Düsseldorf 23.17

Extraliga (CZE) Liberec 21.68

KHL Dinamo Minsk 16.03

SM-Liiga Tappara 15.44

Elitserien Brynäs 12.78

NLA N/A

Teams with fewest penalty minutes/game

Elitserien AIK 7.73

KHL Atlant 9.60

EBEL Orli Znojmo 10.73

SM-Liiga Lukko 10.90

Extraliga (CZE) Kladno 11.37

Extraliga (SVK) Kosice 11.84

DEL Nürnberg 13.57

NLA N/A

% of games that go to overtime

SM-Liiga 25.9%

KHL 23.6%

Elitserien 22.8%

Extraliga (CZE) 19.8%

NLA 19.4%

EBEL 18.5%

Extraliga (SVK) 17.5%

DEL 15.7%

% of home wins (incl. OT and SO)

SM-Liiga 63.4%

NLA 62.2%

DEL 60.7%

KHL 58.1%

Extraliga (CZE) 57.0%

EBEL 56.0%

Extraliga (SVK) 54.2%

Elitserien 52.9%

Number of players used/team

Extraliga (SVK) 32.4

SM-Liiga 31.5

KHL 31.1

Extraliga (CZE) 30.8

NLA 30.0

EBEL 29.7

Elitserien 29.2

DEL 25.2

Top scorer

Extraliga (CZE) Martin Ruzicka 50

KHL Sergey Mozyakin 48

NLA Damien Brunner 48

EBEL Luciano Aquino 46

Extraliga (SVK) Lukas Jurik 44

Elitserien George Holloway 42

SM-Liiga Ilari Filppula 42

DEL Yanick Lehoux 37

Top goal scorer

Extraliga (CZE) Martin Ruzicka 28

NLA Tyler Seguin 24

EBEL Andrew Kozek 22

Elitserien Carl Söderberg 22

Extraliga (SVK) Roman Tomanek 21

KHL Sergey Mozyakin 20

SM-Liiga Juha-Pekka Haataja 18

DEL Wolf/Ciernik/Minard 15

Top scoring defenseman

KHL Renat Mamashev 32

EBEL Mario Altmann 31

NLA Raphael Diaz 27

DEL Andreas Holmqvist 26

Extraliga (CZE) Marek Zidlicky 25

SM-Liiga Erik Karlsson 24

Elitserien Kyle Cumiskey 23

Extraliga (SVK) Jan Mucha 19

Top scoring U20 player

SM-Liiga Aleksander Barkov 28

Extraliga (CZE) Tomas Hertl 22

Elitserien Elias Lindholm 21

KHL Nail Yakupov 18

Extraliga (SVK) Filip Nemcek 12

NLA Lino Martschini 10

EBEL Petr Beranek 8

DEL Leo Pföderl 4

+/- leaders

Extraliga (SVK) Lukas Jurik +31

EBEL Brandon Buck +28

Extraliga (CZE) Martin Straka/Jakub Svoboda +23

KHL Petri Kontiola/Yevgeny Medvedev +22

NLA Damien Brunner/Raphael Diaz +21

DEL TJ Mulock +19

Elitserien George Holloway +17

SM-Liiga Mikko Kalteva +16

% of non-European players

DEL 34.1%

EBEL 33.4%

NLA 15.0%

SM-Liiga 10.1%

Elitserien 8.3%

KHL 5.9%

Extraliga (CZE) 2.4%

Extraliga (SVK) 1.5%

*Please note that we didn't include the Slovak junior team that participates in Slovak Extraliga.

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