Association Football
No team has ever played a whole domestic season losing all of its games, but four teams have however completed their respective domestic seasons without winning a game. In the 2010–11 Serbian SuperLiga, FK Čukarički Stankom played an entire season winless, drawing five matches and losing 25 in a 30 game season, giving them only 5 points and finishing bottom in a field of 16. The team also only scored 10 goals conceding 65.
In the Bulgarian A Professional Football Group, which is the top tier of association football in the European ex-communist state, three teams have all played a season without winning, with those being Torpedo Ruse (four draws out of 22 matches during 1951), Rakovski Ruse (one draw out of 30 matches during 1996/97) and Chernomorets Burgas Sofia (also one draw out of 30 matches during 2006/07). Chernomorets were however the worse performing out of these, conceding 131 goals with only eight in reply (the same number scored as Rakovski Ruse in their winless season), they still however completed the season with a minus 2 points total, because they violated a rule concerning not being able to field enough youth players.
In 2003-04 UAE Division 1, Emirates Club lost all 10 games they played that season. The twelve team league was split into two groups for that shortened season and each team played only within its group. Emirates Club became the first team in modern football to not record a single point in a full official season, scoring 11 goals and conceding 33.
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