How common are draws in football (soccer)?

How often is it a home win, a draw or an away win?

The home side wins a little under half the time. The away side wins a little under a third. The rest are draws.

What is the most common score in football?

It is 1–1, ahead of 1–0. Three of the ten most common scores are draws, shown in green.

Scores are written home–away. A 1–0 is a home win and a 0–1 is an away win.

Which draw scores are most common?

Nearly half of all draws finish 1–1. Together, 1–1 and 0–0 make up about three in every four draws.

How often are matches level at half-time?

More often than at full time. Many matches that are level at the break do not stay that way.

Looked at the other way, 62.9% of full-time draws were already level at half-time.

Half-time figures use the 1,104,078 matches where a half-time score is recorded, which is 77% of the total.

Has the draw rate changed over time?

In our data it has drifted down, from about 25% in the early 2010s to between 23% and 24% since 2020.

Read this with care. Our coverage grew from about 36,000 matches a season to about 169,000 over these years, by adding many smaller competitions. So the fall may reflect which competitions are included, and not only a change in the game. Seasons are listed by the year they start. * The 2026 season is still being played.

Which leagues have the most draws?

The worldwide figure hides big differences. In some leagues a third of matches end level. In others it is one in seven.

We rank 244 leagues by how often their matches end in a draw. Here are positions 4 to 11:

Where do the famous leagues rank?

Not near the top. The Premier League is 160th of 244, and La Liga is 140th.

In England, Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Argentina, the second division draws more often than the top one.

And the fewest:

The # column is the league's position out of 244. Leagues only, across all seasons we hold, and only leagues with at least 2,000 matches in our data. Cups and friendlies are left out. Compare each figure with the worldwide 24.0%.

How these figures are worked out

Every figure on this page is counted from finished matches in the SoccerDraws database: 1,441,423 matches from 1,245 leagues and cups around the world. Almost all of them are from the 2010 season onwards.

A match counts as a draw when the scores are level at full time.

These are records of what has happened. They describe the past and do not predict any future match.

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