2020's decade recap

Top teams

1. Liverpool: Champions League x4 (2021-24), Premier League x5 (2020, 2022, 2024, 2027, 2029), Europa League (2026), Carabao Cup x2 (2026-27)

2. Barcelona: La Liga x8 (2020-27), Club World Cup (2021), Spanish Cup x2 (2024, 2026)

3. Real Madrid: Champions League x3 (2025, 2027, 2028), La Liga x2 (2028, 2029), Spanish Cup x3 (2022, 2028, 2029), Treble in 2028

4. Man City: Champions League (2020), Premier League x3 (2025, 2026, 2028), Club World Cup (2020), FA Cup x2 (2022, 2025), Carabao Cup x3 (2020, 2024, 2029)

5. Tottenham: Champions League (2026), Premier League x2 (2021, 2023), FA Cup x3 (2023, 2024, 2028), Europa League (2028), Carabao Cup x2 (2023, 2028)

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Best players

1. Kylian Mbappe, PSG/Man City: 5 Ballon D'Or's, 5 POTY's, 4 FOTY's, TOTY starting XI x5

2. Agustin Benito, Tottenham: 2 Ballon D'Or's, 2 POTY's, 4 FOTY's, TOTY starting XI x5

3. Ansu Fati, Barcelona: 2 Ballon D'Or's, 2 POTY's, 1 FOTY, TOTY starting XI x2

4. Idk

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Biggest Rises

Morecambe: started the decade with a 23rd place finish in League 2 and ended the decade getting promoted from League 1

USA National team: started the decade having missed out on the last World Cup and Copa America, and ended up finishing 3rd in Qatar, 3rd in the 2028 Copa America, and reaching the quarterfinals of the 2026 World Cup, losing to eventual winners England. 8th in the nation rankings at the end of the decade

Stuttgart: The most dramatic rise of all. Started the decade in the 2. Bundesliga, finished in the top 5 every single year since 2023-24, won DFB-Pokal in 2025 and 2028

San Marino National Team: started the decade as the 210th ranked team in the world, finished the decade as the 123rd ranked team in the world

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Biggest falls

Bayer Leverkusen: started the decade as a Champions League team, but ended the decade as a mid-table Bundesliga team.

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Note

From now on, I will no longer be making an in-depth season review for every season. Instead, I will be doing a review of each decade, and I will go over interesting things that happen in each season of the decade, as well as the things that were included in this decade's review. I will still be posting individual articles about things like the World Cup and the Euro's. If you want to see anything else, please leave a comment!