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Euro Club Index rankings: Barcelona and Real Madrid top of the pile, EPL sides barely make top 10

Barcelona and Real Madrid are top of the Euro Club Index rankings

The Euro Club Index rankings were released on their official site and it reveals that Manchester City are currently England’s best team. The revelation comes as a bit of a shock since Manuel Pellegrini’s side are currently fourth in the Premier League table.

The Sky Blues have failed to beat any of the other teams in the top six and are 15 points behind table toppers Leicester City in the title race. Manchester City had topped the table for as many as 13 weeks during the first half of the season but have since fallen away with an injury crisis the main problem for their failures to capitalise in the league. 

The list is topped by La Liga leaders Barcelona followed by arch-rivals Real Madrid. Defending Bundesliga champions and current league leaders Bayern Munich are in third. Atletico Madrid and France’s Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain complete the top five.

Serie A giants Juventus are the best ranked Italian side while the only two Premier League sides in the top 10 are City (9th) and Arsenal (10th). The other Premier League sides on the list are Chelsea (12th), Tottenham Hotspur (15th) and Manchester United (16th). Liverpool (23rd) are outside the top 20 with even Ukrainian sides Shakhtar Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv above them.

How the Euro Club Index works

According to the website, the Euro Club Index (ECI) ranks clubs across Europe and “shows their relative playing strengths at a given point in time, and the development of playing strengths in time”. This helps them calculate and predict results (win, draw or loss) for upcoming matches.

The values for the ECI are derived from both historical results and current results in the league, domestic cup competitions and European matches. The recent results have a higher weightage in calculating the ECI.

RankClubLeagueIndex+/-
1FC BarcelonaLa Liga4536(+16)
2Real MadridLa Liga4304(-53)
3Bayern MunichBundesliga4081(+14)
4Atletico MadridLa Liga3878(-16)
5Paris Saint-GermainLigue 13803(-16)
6JuventusSerie A37720
7Borussia DortmundBundesliga35780
8Sevilla FCLa Liga33820
9Manchester CityEPL3342(+17)
10ArsenalEPL33260
11BenficaPrimiera Liga3290(-14)
12ChelseaEPL32780
13NapoliSerie A32360
14Villarreal CFLa Liga31920
15Tottenham HotspurEPL31480
16Manchester UnitedEPL31320
17AS RomaSerie A31090
18VfL WolfsburgBundesliga3108(+53)
19Bayer LeverkusenBundesliga30880
20Athletic ClubLa Liga30800
21Shakhtar DonetskUkrainian PL30240
22Dynamo KyivUkrainian PL30100
23LiverpoolEPL30080
24Borussia MonchengladbachBundesliga30060
25Zenit St. PetersburgRussian PL29990
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