PredictStats study · November 2026 edition
Corners in 615 leagues
November 2026 edition · matches from November 8, 2025 to November 7, 2026 · counted on November 8, 2026
How many corners does a football match have, and in which leagues are there the most? We counted every match of the last 12 months that ended after 90 minutes with both sides' corners recorded, in every league and cup we follow. The study gives each league's average, for the home and the away side, and how often a match had at least 9, 10 and 11 corners.
From November 8, 2025 to November 7, 2026, 615 leagues, cups included, played 92,615 matches with both sides' corners recorded. They averaged 9.5 corners per match: 5.1 for the home side and 4.4 for the away side. 58% of them had at least 9 corners (the 8.5 threshold), 47% at least 10 (9.5) and 36% at least 11 (10.5).
The figures describe matches already played: a percentage is how often something happened in them, not a forecast.
Headline figures
- Matches in the study
- 92,615
- 615 leagues, cups included
- Corners per match
- 9.5
- home 5.1 · away 4.4
- Matches with 9 corners or more
- 58%
- the 8.5 threshold
- Most common number of corners
- 9
- 12% of matches
Where there are the most and the fewest corners
Among 320 senior leagues with at least 100 matches, Úrvalsdeild (Iceland) had the most corners: 12.4 per match on average. Premier Soccer League (Zimbabwe) had the fewest: 7.4.
Among 74 top-flight leagues, Eliteserien (Norway) leads with 10.8 corners per match and Premijer Liga (Bosnia & Herzegovina) is last with 8.1.
Most corners per match
| Rank | League | AvgAvg per match | 10+ corners |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | ÚrvalsdeildIceland · 162 matches | 12.4 | 80% |
| 2nd | 1. DeildIceland · 133 matches | 11.8 | 70% |
| 3rd | 2. DeildIceland · 118 matches | 11.5 | 66% |
| 4th | YkkönenFinland · 132 matches | 11.4 | 67% |
| 5th | 1. DivisionNorway · 244 matches | 11.2 | 64% |
| 6th | 3. liga - CFL ACzechia · 211 matches | 11.1 | 67% |
| 7th | Kakkonen - Lohko AFinland · 113 matches | 11.0 | 62% |
| 8th | 1. LigaLatvia · 140 matches | 11.0 | 64% |
| 9th | Serie CBrazil · 216 matches | 10.9 | 64% |
| 10th | III Liga - Group 3Poland · 202 matches | 10.9 | 64% |
Fewest corners per match
| Rank | League | AvgAvg per match | 10+ corners |
|---|---|---|---|
| 320th | Premier Soccer LeagueZimbabwe · 115 matches | 7.4 | 23% |
| 319th | Premier LeagueEthiopia · 206 matches | 7.7 | 24% |
| 318th | Super LeagueKenya · 148 matches | 7.9 | 30% |
| 317th | Botola 2Morocco · 163 matches | 8.0 | 29% |
| 316th | Tercera División RFEF - Group 6Spain · 236 matches | 8.1 | 34% |
| 315th | Premier LeagueLebanon · 114 matches | 8.1 | 25% |
| 314th | SuperligaAlbania · 157 matches | 8.1 | 33% |
| 313th | Premijer LigaBosnia & Herzegovina · 177 matches | 8.1 | 29% |
| 312th | Liga MayorDominican Republic · 124 matches | 8.2 | 26% |
| 311th | Super LeagueMalawi · 151 matches | 8.2 | 34% |
Poland's leagues and the big five among 615 leagues
The Ekstraklasa averaged 9.8 corners per match: 29th among 74 top-flight leagues and 99th among 320 senior leagues.
Poland's I Liga averaged 10.8 corners per match (13th among the senior leagues) and its II Liga 10.8 (16th).
Of the big five, the most corners came in the Bundesliga (9.9 per match, 21st among the top flights) and the fewest in Serie A (9.0, 54th).
| League | AvgAvg per match | Ranking place | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top flights | Senior leagues | ||
| I LigaPoland · 292 matches | 10.8 | – | 13th |
| II LigaPoland · 291 matches | 10.8 | – | 16th |
| BundesligaGermany · 303 matches | 9.9 | 21st | 76th |
| Premier LeagueEngland · 375 matches | 9.9 | 23rd | 79th |
| EkstraklasaPoland · 304 matches | 9.8 | 29th | 99th |
| La LigaSpain · 383 matches | 9.7 | 32nd | 112th |
| Ligue 1France · 291 matches | 9.4 | 38th | 151st |
| Serie AItaly · 384 matches | 9.0 | 54th | 215th |
How many corners per match the leagues have
The number of leagues by average corners per match, all 615 leagues.
- average below 7: 2 leagues
- average from 7 to 8: 18 leagues
- average from 8 to 9: 167 leagues
- average from 9 to 10: 286 leagues
- average from 10 to 11: 122 leagues
- average from 11 to 12: 19 leagues
- average 12 or more: 1 league
Half of the leagues average between 8.9 and 10.0 corners per match. The median league has 9.4, and all matches together average 9.5.
Home and away
Home sides took 5.1 corners per match on average and away sides 4.4, so 54% of all corners went to the home side. The away side took more corners in 76 of 615 competitions.
In cups the away side took more corners in 25 of 106, among the top flights in 2 of 74.
| Competitions | Home | Away | Away ahead |
|---|---|---|---|
| All in the study | 5.1 | 4.4 | 76 |
| Top-flight leagues | 5.2 | 4.3 | 2 |
| Senior leagues | 5.1 | 4.3 | 17 |
| Cups | 5.1 | 4.4 | 25 |
How we count
We count the matches that ended after 90 minutes, from November 8, 2025 to November 7, 2026; a match that went to extra time is left out. Both sides' corners come from the match statistics of our data provider and, where those have none, from our live record of the match when we followed it to at least the 80th minute. A match recorded without a single corner is left out, as that is how a gap in the data shows, and so is one with more than 30 corners.
A competition is in the study when it has at least 30 such matches, no more than 5% of its matches recorded without a corner, and is not friendlies: that makes 615 leagues, cups included. The average of all leagues counts their matches together, so a league weighs as many matches as it has.
The rankings and the leagues' places count the competitions with at least 100 matches and split them as our league ranking does: the top-flight leagues (a hand-checked list of professional first divisions) and every senior men's league. Cups and youth, women's and reserve competitions count in the overall figures, and the cups have a row of their own under home and away. Whether a competition is a league or a cup is as our data provider types it.
This is the edition of November 8, 2026, and its figures will not change. The next edition will be a new count. The current averages, counted every night, are in the league ranking and the corners module.
Limits
- The data come from a provider of match statistics and may contain the odd recording error.
- In a league with a few dozen matches the average moves more than in one with several hundred.
- Leagues and countries are named as our data provider names them.
The other definitions are in the methodology: how we count our statistics