UEFA coefficient
In European football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics based in weighted arithmetic means used for ranking and seeding teams in club and international competitions.
This is unrelated to the selection of teams which will fill each allocation through the individual association leagues and national cups (which is decided in the preceding season).
The ranking below takes into account of each association's performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25, with the 2024–25 season underway.
The final ranking at the end of the 2024–25 season will be used to determine the minimum number of places for each association in the 2026–27 UEFA club competitions.
[19] Rankings in table exclude Liechtenstein which receives one Conference League qualifying berth for their cup winner.
The ban was only lifted after five seasons, with the knock-on effects continuing to impact on English football for a total of nine years from 1986 to 1994.
[1] Note that the table take into account the results from the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, which was a non-UEFA competition that took place until 1971, whose teams in the first editions were representing cities instead of clubs.
The final ranking at the end of the 2024–25 season will be used to determine the number of places for each association in the 2026–27 UEFA Women's Champions League.
As of 18 December 2024 the coefficients are as follows:[23] Notes The following data indicates the three top-ranked women's associations in each five-year period.
The table shows the ranking of nations with respect to the total number of years in the top three of the rankings: Introduced first in 1990[26] with various calculation principles applied throughout the years,[27] currently the club coefficient is either the sum of the points earned by the club in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League over the previous five seasons or 20% of the club's association coefficient over the same period, whichever coefficient is higher.
[30][31] The ranking below takes into account of each club's performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25, with the 2024–25 season underway.
The ranking below takes into account of each team's performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2024–25, with the 2024–25 season starting 4 September 2024.
Top-rated women's clubs listed by number of times they were top-ranked over a 5-year period since the first period officially analysed (2001–2005): UEFA calculates coefficients for each association that takes part in the UEFA Regions' Cup.
[40] The coefficients for the top 16 teams competing on 2022–23 UEFA Futsal Champions League are as follows:[41] The UEFA coefficient system has been criticised for being likely to preserve the status quo for rankings and seedings, as well as for favouring teams from stronger leagues.
