Identifying the best football teams of all time is a major undertaking and it only gets more difficult as the seasons pass.
How is it measured? What makes one team better than another? Where on earth do today’s best teams fit in, and what does that say about the importance or otherwise of legacy? Take Arsenal and Manchester City in 2025/26. The Gunners are favourites to win the Premier League and have been utterly dominant in the Champions League. Man City are keeping pace with them in a two-horse title race but Mikel Arteta could end the season with multiple trophies. Could either of them find their way into a list of this magnitude?
