The draw data, drawn
Four pictures of the same archive. How long a team can go without a level result, whether football draws more often than it used to, how far back the record reaches country by country, and what the draw score looks like once every ranked team is plotted at once. Each chart is drawn on the server from figures the indexers already hold. Tap or hover a bar, line or dot for its numbers.
A calendar of the record books
Every bar is one uninterrupted run of matches that did not end level, drawn from the day it started to the day a draw ended it. Laid on a shared calendar the records cluster: the modern game produces them faster, because there is simply more football being recorded. The one to remember is Manchester City — 50 matches between 2020-12-19 and 2021-09-15 without a single draw.
Does football draw more than it used to?
These are the competitions this database follows furthest back — far enough that an era is visible in them at all. Most league coverage here starts in 1993, which is why the panels lean on cups and on Norway, where the record runs deep. In the FA Cup, 12.4% of matches were drawn across 1879–1905, against 24.3% across 2016–2025. Knockout cups sit far below the leagues throughout: a tie that has to produce a winner is not a fixture that can settle for a point.
How far back the record goes, country by country
A bar per country, running from its earliest recorded match to today, with the number of played matches beside it. The shape of the archive is plain: a long English tail, a deep Norwegian and Swiss one, and a thirty-year block where the modern league feeds begin. The oldest match on file is from 1871-11-11, in England.
Every ranked team on one pair of axes
The draw score is this site's own measure of how overdue a draw a team is — its recent draw rate weighted against how far its current run has stretched past its own record. Plotted against how much football each side has played, the cloud narrows to the right: the more matches a team has on file, the harder it is for its score to reach an extreme. Hebei tops it on 0.742 from 216 matches. Named dots link to that team's predictor page.
Four charts drawn over the whole FDB4 archive. A Gantt timeline of the longest runs without a draw ever recorded, laid on one calendar so the records can be compared by date as well as by length. Draw rate by era, one small-multiple panel per competition with the deepest history in the database, on a shared 0–40% scale. A coverage timeline showing how far back the record reaches in every country and how many played matches each one holds. And a scatter of every ranked team's draw score against the matches it has played, on a log axis. Everything is server-rendered SVG over figures the indexers already hold — no charting library, no JavaScript, and nothing aggregated per request.