"league table" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: league tables [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} league table (plural league tables)
  1. (sports) A tabular display of the teams in some league in order of win percentage or points awarded, often also including number of matches played, won, lost, and drawn, goal difference, etc. Categories (topical): Sports Synonyms (sports ranking): points table, standings [North-America], ladder [Australia] Related terms: leaderboard Translations (tabular display of teams): classificació (Catalan), stand (Dutch), sarjataulukko (Finnish), classement (French), Tabelle (German), klasemen (Indonesian), classifica (Italian), 팀 순위 (tim sunwi) (Korean), tabell (Norwegian), таблица (tablica) (Russian), clasificación [Spain] (Spanish), (tabla de) posiciones [Latin-America] (Spanish), tabell (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-league_table-en-noun-0N~Wgzj8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sports ranking': 57 43 Disambiguation of 'tabular display of teams': 89 11
  2. (chiefly British) Such a listing of hospitals, schools and other institutions showing their ranking according to various indicators of performance. Tags: British
    Sense id: en-league_table-en-noun-qkcrVP8p Categories (other): British English

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