It's still just December, only half of all the games have been played, and the season is already over. Well, at least it feels that way. If pressed to choose, we'd all pick the same winners across Europe's Big Five leagues: PSG in Ligue 1 and Real Madrid in LaLiga, while Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Manchester City all repeat as domestic-league champs in the Bundesliga, Serie A and Premier League respectively.
Yes, each one of those outcomes is by far the most likely outcome in each league; all five sides are odds-on favorites for the title, to varying degrees. But that doesn't mean that they're all going to win, or that the PSG-Madrid-Man City-Inter-Bayern outcome is even a likely one. Using the title odds from FiveThirtyEight's projections, the combined probability of all five current favorites ending their seasons atop their tables is just 48%. In other words, the most likely outcome is that at least one of the current league leaders coughs up the lead come this spring.
Plus, we've still got the knockout rounds of a little tournament called the Champions League still left to play. So, with 2022 right around the corner -- or already here, depending on when you're reading -- why don't we take a look at all of the in-the-realm-of-possibility potential title winners? The betting markets are still the most accurate publicly available source of projections available, so we've used the odds from FanDuel's sportsbook to rank 2022's 20 most likely champions, in order.