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Barcelona third in UEFA Club Coefficients, only one Premier League club in top 10

Who is no.1?

 

Introduced in 1979, the UEFA Club Coefficients are a method of ranking done by Europe’s football association and are determined by the results of clubs in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League over the previous five seasons, as well as by the coefficient of the clubs' association. The club coefficient is the sum of the points earned by the club over the five seasons plus (20% of the) club's association coefficient.

This is how the points scoring system works – 

-  The clubs receive two points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a defeat in games of the main stages of the Champions League and the Europa League.

- Results determined after extra-time are included in this method, however, results determined after penalty shoot-outs are not (the result is considered a draw).

You may be wondering what the purpose of the ranking is  – It is used by UEFA to determine a club's seeding in club competition draws, including the preliminary and first rounds of the Champions League, and the preliminary, first and second rounds of the Europa League.

While earlier, UEFA used to ensure that strong teams did not meet in the first two rounds of the continental competition, certain changes in the rules were enforced in August last year. These included – 

- Clubs will be judged on their own record. The country share of individual club coefficients will be eliminated, except when a club's coefficient is lower than 20% of their country's coefficient.

- Historical results will be considered, using a weighted system that awards points for previous Champions League and Europa League titles.

This is the ranking as of March 2017

20172016Club NameTotal Points
11Real Madrid166.371
22Bayern Munich154.842
33Barcelona150.371
44Atletico Madrid136.371
59Juventus131.366
67Paris Saint-Germain125.999
78Borussia Dortmund124.842
814Sevilla112.371
96Benfica111.866
105Chelsea105.878
1110Arsenal104.878
1211Manchester City99.878
1316Porto98.866
1413Schalke 0494.842
1518Bayer Leverkusen90.842
1617Napoli88.366
1721Shakhtar Donetsk 87.526
1815Zenit St. Petersburg87.106
1920Manchester United84.878
2023Tottenham Hotspur76.878
2112Valencia75.371
2219Basel74.415
2334Fiorentina68.366
2426Dynamo Kyiv67.526
2524Olympiacos64.580

The top four are unchanged, as Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Atletico Madrid remain atop the pile. Meanwhile, what’s really surprising is how poorly the Premier League have fared in recent years. 

In fact, the last time a Premier League club topped the charts was way back in 2011 when Manchester United were top dogs. The past three years it’s been Real Madrid, and the other two, Barcelona. Since the inception of the rankings in 1979, Madrid have topped the rankings 12 times while Juventus and Barcelona are joint second with 7. 

 

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