{"id":4815,"date":"2022-08-22T09:11:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukgamblingsites.com\/?page_id=4815"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T10:15:50","slug":"what-is-the-average-goals-per-game-in-football","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukgamblingsites.com\/sports-betting\/football\/what-is-the-average-goals-per-game-in-football\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Average Goals Per Game in Football?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AverageGoals are everything in football.<\/p>\n

You would struggle to find a football fan who, having made the pilgrimage to their team\u2019s game on a weekend, having felt the buzz of the ground and the accompanying pre-match nerves, isn\u2019t inwardly gutted if the game ends 0-0, even if they would take the point.<\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll take a look at the average number of goals per game in both the English leagues and across Europe, and break down the stats to see which league offers ultimate entertainment for supporters and the most goals per game.<\/p>\n

What is the Average Goals Per Game in the Premier League?<\/h2>\n

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Of course, football, like most things in life, changes over time, with some of the differences stemming from rules changes, some from culture and some for reasons that are hard to pin down. There have been eras of the game when more goals were scored than today, generally speaking, and also times when fewer were. There are also, of course, differences across leagues, cups and competitions, however our focus here is the Premier League in the modern era.<\/p>\n

If we look at five Premier League seasons from 2016\/17 to 2020\/21, the average goals per game works out at 2.74. This shows that, although 0-0s do happen, the Premier League has consistently high-scoring games; it is certainly a league that rarely fails to entertain. If we just consider a single weekend, for example, on Saturday 13th August 2022 there were four games that involved four goals or more, which included Brentford\u2019s dramatic taking apart of Erik Ten Hag\u2019s Manchester United, who the Bees were able to crushingly defeat 4-0. Anyway, when studying the data behind this stat for average goals, we can see that the 18\/19 season had the highest with 2.82 goals per game on average, whilst the season prior, 17\/18, had the lowest with only 2.68 goals scored per game.<\/p>\n

That average is relatively close to the standard 2.5 goals that is used as the typical over\/under line for the popular bet. This makes sense, because the odds for over or under are usually generally quite similar and often sit either side of even money. Of course, the average being 2.74 does not automatically mean that over 2.5 goals will win more often than not but it is certainly a stat to bear in mind for anyone wanting to bet on the various goal-related markets that bookies offer.<\/p>\n

Are More Goals Scored in the First or Second Half?<\/h2>\n

There is a common perception in football that more goals are scored in the second half of a match, when legs are tired, the clock is ticking, there is greater urgency and substitutes are thrown on to try and change the game. To add to this, there aren\u2019t many famous goals scored in the first half, with almost all of the greatest goals of all time, in terms of importance, scored late on in the game.<\/p>\n

Examples of great, late goals include Andres Iniesta\u2019s 2010 World Cup-winning strike against the Netherlands, Sergio Aguero\u2019s title-winner vs QPR and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer\u2019s winner in the 1999 Champions League final (which you can watch below), to name but a few. These strikes naturally stick in the memory but do the stats back up the perception that the second period of a game sees more goals?<\/p>\n