SQL Exercise: Team(s) who conceded the most goals in EURO cup 2016

SQL soccer Database: Joins Exercise-20 with Solution

20. From the following tables, write a SQL query to find the team(s) who conceded the most goals in EURO cup 2016. Return country name, team group and match played.

Sample table: soccer_team

Sample table: soccer_country

Sample Solution:

SQL Code:

SELECT country_name,team_group,match_played,
won,lost,goal_for,goal_agnst
FROM soccer_team 
JOIN soccer_country 
ON soccer_team.team_id=soccer_country.country_id
WHERE goal_agnst=(
SELECT MAX(goal_agnst) 
FROM soccer_team);

Sample Output:

 country_name | team_group | match_played | won | lost | goal_for | goal_agnst
--------------+------------+--------------+-----+------+----------+------------
 Russia       | B          |            3 |   0 |    2 |        2 |          6
(1 row)

Code Explanation:

The said query in SQL that selects the country name, team group, number of matches played, number of matches won, number of matches lost, number of goals scored for, and number of goals scored against for all teams in the soccer_team table, that have the highest number of goals scored against them.
The JOIN clause joins the tables using the team_id and country_id columns, which are primary keys in the soccer_team and soccer_country tables respectively.
The WHERE clause filters the results to only show teams where the goal_agnst column in the soccer_team table is equal to the maximum value of goal_agnst in the same table. The subquery inside the WHERE clause is used to get the maximum value of goal_agnst from the soccer_team table.

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Sample Database: soccer

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