UEFA ranking: RC Lens in the French Top 10, not in the European Top 100

Wednesday 18th September 2024 06:38 AM

While the Champions League starts this week, it is an opportunity to take stock of the ranking of French clubs in the UEFA coefficient. This takes into account the last 5 seasons.

THE RC Lenswith his short experience over this period, occupies 8th place in France after its elimination in the Conference League play-offsahead of Brest who will make their debut this week against Sturm Graz on the European stage and in the Champions League. Internationally, Racing is the 105th European club. The French clubs ahead of Lens are unsurprisingly first of all PSG (6th in Europe), then Marseille (33rd), Lille (37th), Rennes (42nd), Monaco (65th), Lyon (71st) and Nice (84th). All are competing in a European Cup this season. The French Top 10 is completed by Toulouse. Nantes (11th) and Reims (12th) are the only other clubs to have an index.

Manchester City on the roof of Europe

Manchester City is the number 1 club in Europe ahead of Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Liverpool and AS Roma. These are the 5 clubs that dominate PSG in the rankings at the start of this season. The full ranking is available here.

Points awarded from the league stage in all three UEFA competitions are as follows: 2 points for a win (1 point in the qualifying phase and play-offs), 1 point for a draw (0.5 points in the qualifying phase and play-offs), 0 points for a loss

In the knockout phase, clubs receive an additional bonus in the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final: +1.5 bonus points each time in the C1, +1 bonus point each time in the Europa League, +0.5 bonus points each time in the Conference League.

Bonus points are also applied based on the rankings in the League phase, the C1 having the particularity of ensuring points even for the lowest ranked (6). Note that Brest already has a coefficient despite its European inexperience because “the coefficient over five seasons of a club is the total of the coefficients of the five previous seasons, or 20% of the coefficient of associations over five seasons of its association “, says UEFA.