Bremen 2nd candidate for team of the year. +14VA +15PVA, Feyenord also +10 with promoted Montpellier +7.
Division 5 is always a mad bad world.
Bremen always had a good keeper for the division and a strong midfield, but a few crafty late season buys pushed him over the line.
West Brom -6/-0.71 and more so West Ham -13/-0.75 were crushingly disappointing, which helped but Santos in 2nd , Montpellier pushed them hard with 4 pts separating the top 6.
Feyenord on +10 improved as the season went on , Twente were unlucky to fail in the playoffs.
Other than those mentioned, Independient on -7 and River Plate on -14 VA are notable in their below par performance.
| GK | DEF | MID | ATT | Top18 | Ave |
| ETOT | Epr | Fin | VA | PVA |
| Bremen
| 88.0 | 86.5 | 88.0 | 87.0 | 86.0 | 87.1 |
| 217.03 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 15.00 |
| Montpellier HSC
| 88.0 | 86.3 | 87.8 | 88.5 | 85.0 | 87.1 |
| 217.49 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 2.67 |
| FC Twente
| 87.0 | 87.0 | 87.8 | 87.5 | 85.0 | 86.9 |
| 217.32 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2.00 |
| Feyenoord
| 87.0 | 87.0 | 87.3 | 87.0 | 85.0 | 86.7 |
| 216.59 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 1.22 |
| Udinese Calcio
| 87.0 | 87.3 | 87.5 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.0 |
| 217.64 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Rubin Kazan
| 87.0 | 86.8 | 87.8 | 87.5 | 85.0 | 86.8 |
| 217.12 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0.75 |
| Santos FC
| 89.0 | 87.5 | 88.5 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 87.8 |
| 219.00 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.50 |
| Stuttgart
| 87.0 | 86.5 | 87.3 | 88.0 | 84.0 | 86.6 |
| 216.72 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 0.29 |
| Girondins Bordeaux
| 87.0 | 86.8 | 86.5 | 88.5 | 84.0 | 86.6 |
| 216.65 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0.27 |
| Besiktas JK
| 88.0 | 86.0 | 87.0 | 86.5 | 85.0 | 86.5 |
| 215.39 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 0.24 |
| Dynamo Moskva
| 88.0 | 86.8 | 87.3 | 88.0 | 85.0 | 87.0 |
| 217.16 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0.08 |
| Club Brugge KV
| 87.0 | 87.3 | 88.3 | 88.0 | 86.0 | 87.3 |
| 218.36 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 0.00 |
| Augsburg
| 87.0 | 86.8 | 87.5 | 88.0 | 83.0 | 86.5 |
| 217.00 | 16 | 18 | -2 | -0.06 |
| Flamengo
| 87.0 | 87.3 | 88.3 | 87.5 | 86.0 | 87.2 |
| 218.04 | 8 | 10 | -2 | -0.10 |
| Lille OSC
| 85.0 | 87.8 | 87.3 | 87.5 | 83.0 | 86.1 |
| 217.04 | 14 | 19 | -5 | -0.21 |
| Málaga CF
| 88.0 | 87.5 | 88.0 | 87.5 | 86.0 | 87.4 |
| 218.16 | 7 | 13 | -6 | -0.38 |
| Independiente
| 85.0 | 88.3 | 87.5 | 88.5 | 85.0 | 86.9 |
| 218.53 | 4 | 11 | -7 | -0.55 |
| River Plate
| 88.0 | 88.5 | 87.8 | 87.0 | 85.0 | 87.3 |
| 218.31 | 6 | 20 | -14 | -0.65 |
| West Bromwich Albion
| 90.0 | 88.3 | 88.5 | 88.0 | 82.0 | 87.4 |
| 219.24 | 1 | 7 | -6 | -0.71 |
| West Ham United
| 87.0 | 86.8 | 88.0 | 89.5 | 86.0 | 87.5 |
| 218.74 | 3 | 16 | -13 | -0.75 |