Form guides rarely line up this neatly. Right now, eight teams across four different competitions carry the exact same scoreline in their last five matches: LLLLL. Zero points. No draws to soften it, no stray win to break the run. Just five straight defeats, repeated eight times over.
The clubs
In the 2. Bundesliga, FC Hansa Rostock have gone five without a win, losing all five. In Sweden's Allsvenskan, the slump is a shared one: both Åtvidabergs FF and GIF Sundsvall sit on the same five-match losing run, a rare case of two clubs from the same division falling into the identical pattern at the same time.
The tournament sides
The pattern repeats on the international stage. At the AFC Asian Cup 2023, three nations share the distinction: India, Kuwait and North Korea all finished their last five matches without a single point. At the Africa Cup of Nations 2023, Botswana and Guinea-Bissau round out the list with the same record, five defeats, zero points.
What the numbers actually say
There is no shared cause here, a 2. Bundesliga club, two Allsvenskan rivals, and five national teams from two different continental tournaments have nothing in common tactically or structurally. What links them is purely statistical: an LLLLL form string and 0 points from 5 games, the bluntest way the data has of flagging a team in trouble. It says nothing about how close those losses were, nor about chances created or squandered, only the result column. For clubs like Rostock, Åtvidabergs and Sundsvall, the next match is the obvious place to try to break the streak. For the five national teams, the run is already part of the record books from their respective tournaments.
Eight teams, one number. In football, zero from five is about as stark as the data gets.