For the second year running, we’ve been digging into the data to see what football stories engaged our audience the most last season across the BBC Sport website and app.
Engagement time of a story was determined by the average time it took to actively read the piece along with a quality ratio – a calculation that allowed us to weight the results so the list did not become one featuring only our longest pieces.
We’ve removed all the quizzes and the live match pages which would have dominated the list, and we omitted pieces that have since become dated by news events that followed.
So in no particular order:
