Premier League is often described as the most exciting football league in the world and rightly so looking at 2015-16 crazy season which had so many surprises from top to bottom of the league. Since it was rebranded as the English Premier League back in 1992 it has be an absolute financial success on every scale and if premier league was not exciting it would not be raking all this financial windfall. Having said that is premier league the best football league in the world ? well jury is still out on that and we take a look at some of the top leagues around europe and in the world, ranking them according to several factors.

UEFA has a coefficients system according to which they rank the european leagues and that solely depend on the performances of clubs from a certain league in europe. Spanish La Liga is the highest ranked team according to UEFA co-efficient with 101 points as of april 2016 while German Bundesliga is second with 79 and Premier League is third with 75 points. But thats one way to look at the leagues there are several other factors like excitement level, average attendance, tv viewing numbers, quality of football. average number of goals and we can go on and on with so many more statistics.

World Top 10 Football Leagues
NO#	LEAGUE	POINTS
1	SpainSpanish La Liga 	48
2	England cricket flagPremier League 	47
3	germanyBundesliga 	42
4	italyItalian Serie A 	37
5	PortugalPortuguese Liga	35
6	FranceFrench Ligue 1 	31
7	hollandDutch Eredivisie	27
8	argentinaArgentine League	21
9	BrazilBrazilian Serie A 	20
10	USAMajor League Soccer	20
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But we decided to take 6 major factors into account and rank the top leagues around the world. Every factor has 10 points.

Excitement
Competitiveness throughout the league
Quality of football
Star Power
Success in continental football
Average Attendance
So collection such data from 20 top leagues around the world we have narrowed down the ranking to top 10 leagues in the world and this is how they rank.

Spanish league came out top with overall 48 points. (10 points each for qualify of football and success in europe, 9 for star power, 6 for average attendance, 7 for excitement and 6 for competitiveness)

Premier league narrowly missed out with 47 points (10 points each for Competitiveness and excitement, 6 for quality of football, 7 for star power, 6 success in europe and 8 for average attendance)