List of top-division football clubs in UEFA countries

[1] All widely recognised sovereign states located entirely within Europe are members, with the exceptions of the United Kingdom, Monaco and Vatican City.

Eight states partially or entirely outside Europe are also members: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey.

The Faroe Islands, an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark, also has its own football association which is a member of UEFA.

[1] The football association of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, was approved as a member by UEFA in 2013.

Due to promotion and relegation, the clubs playing in the top-level league are different every season, except in San Marino and Gibraltar where there is only one level.

[5] A country's ranking is calculated based on the results of its clubs in UEFA competitions over the past five seasons.

The teams finishing in the bottom two places are relegated to the Albanian First Division and are replaced by the champions of each of that league's two groups.

Clubs and locations as of 2024-25 season: Andorra's national league system was formed in 1993, and the Andorran Football Federation gained UEFA membership in 1996.

[9] Records from the league's first three seasons are incomplete, but FC Santa Coloma have won more First Division titles than any other team, with at least 13.

The Football Federation of Armenia gained UEFA affiliation in 1992, and the league ran as the national championship for the first time in the same year.

Although the country was part of the Soviet Union, the first Azerbaijan-wide football competition took place in 1928, and became an annual occurrence from 1934.

Following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the first independent Azeri championship took place in 1992, and the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan gained UEFA affiliation in 1994[15][16] Since independence, the country's most successful team is Qarabağ, with eleven league titles.

Belgium joined European football's governing body, UEFA, upon its formation in 1954.

Prior to gaining independence from Yugoslavia, clubs from Bosnia and Herzegovina were eligible to compete in the Yugoslav First League, which they won three times.

In recent years, Ludogorets Razgrad has dominated the league; although the team did not make its first appearance in the top flight until 2011–12, it has won the championship in each of its first thirteen seasons at that level.

[41] The inaugural competition was won by Preston North End, who remained unbeaten throughout the entire season.

[45][46] FC Flora is the most successful team in the modern era, with 15 league titles as of the end of the 2014 season.

[49] The most successful teams are HB and KI, with 24 and 21 Premier League titles respectively as of the most recently completed 2024 season.

Clubs and locations as of 2024 season: Finland's current league has been contested annually since 1898, with the exceptions of 1914 and 1943.

However, between 1920 and 1948 a rival championship operated, organised by the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation.

However, it only lasted two seasons; from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, French football operated on a regional basis until 1932.

[55] So far, Olympique de Marseille are the only French club to have won the UEFA Champions League, in 1993.

[57] When Georgia organised its first independent championship, it operated with a spring-to-autumn season contained entirely within a calendar year.

Clubs and locations as of 2024 season: The Bundesliga consists of 18 teams, who play each other twice, for a total of 34 matches.

Clubs and locations as of 2024–25 season: A Swedish championship was first organised in 1896, and the champions were decided by a knockout cup format until 1925, when Allsvenskan was formed.

[91] The Football Federation of Ukraine was formed shortly after the country achieved independence in 1991, and gained UEFA membership the following year.

[92] Since the formation of a national league, Dynamo Kyiv have won 16 titles, Shakhtar Donetsk 15, and Tavriya Simferopol one, as of the most recently completed 2023–24 season.

However, during that season's winter break, the Euromaidan protests began, soon followed by Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the still-ongoing war in the country's east.

The top six teams play to determine the league champion and European qualifying spots, while the bottom six teams play to avoid relegation, with the bottom two at the end of the second stage dropping to the Ukrainian First League.

Although Wales joined UEFA in 1954, Welsh football operated on a regional basis until 1992, with no national championship.