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1Q 2023 Performance ranking of CONCACAF leagues in international matches – derived ELO method

March 16, 2023

	League (s)		Clubs	Pts	RPS	ex pos.	diff.	Zone/Region
1	Mexico	MEX	🇲🇽	28,107	2814,81	1	≡	America North
2	United States	USA	🇺🇸🇨🇦	26,491	2652,97	2	≡	America North
3	Honduras	HON	🇭🇳	13,405	1342,46	3	≡	America Central and Caribbean
4	Costa Rica	CRC	🇨🇷	9,238	925,15	4	≡	America Central and Caribbean
5	Guatemala	GUA	🇬🇹	4,853	486,01	5	≡	America Central and Caribbean
6	Panama	PAN	🇵🇦	3,252	325,68	7	+1	America Central and Caribbean
7	Canada	CAN	🇨🇦	3,232	323,67	6	-1	America North
8	Haiti	HAI	🇭🇹	2,952	295,63	9	+1	America Central and Caribbean
9	El Salvador	SLV	🇸🇻	2,480	248,36	8	-1	America Central and Caribbean
10	Puerto Rico	PUR	🇵🇷	1,590	159,23	11	+1	America Central and Caribbean
11	Dominican Republic	DOM	🇩🇴	1,457	145,91	10	-1	America Central and Caribbean
12	Suriname	SUR	🇸🇷	0,978	97,94	13	+1	America South
13	Nicaragua	NCA	🇳🇮	0,798	79,92	12	-1	America Central and Caribbean
14	Guadeloupe	GLP	🇬🇵	0,513	51,38	15	+1	America Central and Caribbean
15	Jamaica	JAM	🇯🇲	0,446	44,67	14	-1	America Central and Caribbean
16	Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA	🇹🇨	0,047	4,71	16	≡	America Central and Caribbean
17	Martinique	MTQ	🇲🇶	0,015	1,50	17	≡	America Central and Caribbean

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Notes
Meaning of the continental ranking versus global ranking
The North and Central America continental rankings (CONCACAF Leagues Ranking & CONCACAF Clubs Ranking) are technical in nature, as they only show the position of a league or club from the perspective of international cups, such as the Champions League. If you want to find a more accurate ranking in terms of actual football soccer strength and quality, you need to look at the KA Football Leagues Global Rating or the KA Football Club Global Rating. What makes global rankings different from continental rankings is the consideration of more factors. A global league rating takes into account, in addition to the performance of clubs in international competitions, the level of attractiveness and reputation as measured by the number of players from a given league appearing in top national teams (AIF). In addition, we take into account a country’s overall football soccer reputation, as measured by national team historical results and the most prestigious individual football soccer awards (NFRI). The global club ranking shows the difference from the continental ranking to an even greater extent. The global club ranking takes into account a club’s position in domestic league competitions in conjunction with the global league rating. This means that clubs that play in highly ranked leagues but rarely participate in continental competitions can also appear in the global club ranking, sometimes in decent places.
ELO CONCACAF – Leagues & Clubs Performance Rankings
Every club receives the points for match results according to the ELO method scheme. The points are determined by the relative strength of the two opponents where the factor of an expected outcome is calculated and with using the factors related to completed match: importance match factor, the outcome factor and the difference goals factor. Since the ELO Method become applied, all international matches arranged or recognized by FIFA or the continental federation are covered by rankings. For North & Central America, this includes CONCACAF Champions League, the Leagues Cup, Campeones Cup as well as the FIFA Club World Cup. Previously the ranking covered also Caribbean Club Championship, Caribbean Club Shield and CONCACAF League.
Canada
The new national and professional Canadian Premier League started to play in April 2019 and 8 clubs participate in it. Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps and CF Montréal play in the highest tier of American league system, in the Major League Soccer (MLS). Other clubs play at various levels of American leagues or Canadian regional leagues.
CONCACAF members who didn’t score points
Some of CONCACAF’s member countries do not provide professional nationwide leagues (mainly applies to non-FIFA members). Some clubs from these countries do not compete in any international competitions at all, and some competed only in the Caribbean Club Shield – second tier of the Caribbean Club Championship for non-professional leagues. Because leagues receive points as derivated values of club points, so if clubs do not collect any points leagues don’t have positive score and not appear in the ranking. Being ranked therefore demands clubs activity in the area of international competitions. Whereby it is not sufficient to have points by a club picked up in any past time. ELO rankings in the KA system have a depreciation algorithm. It consists, in short, in the fact that the point value of a club not playing matches is gradually reduced. As a result, such a club after some time acquires a zero or negative value and drops out of the ranking. This can also translate into the national league and, as a result, the league can also get a zero or negative value. This is other reason that some countries are not shown in the league table, even if they appeared in the past.
the Ranking Points, RPS and IC3
Ranking points (ELO points) are calculated according to the ELO method. In terms of leagues, these points are derived from the values obtained by clubs. The tables also show values labeled RPS and IC3. RPS (Relative Point Score) is a value that results from the fact that the ELO points obtained in a ranking are converted according to the same formula used throughout the KA system, which allows values from different continental rankings to be compared and combined to determine global rankings. IC3 (Inter-Continental Club Coefficient) is an indicator dedicated only for clubs and it is based on the continental ranking points, taking into account the index of the continent (Power Index Federation), as well as AIF value. It is very important indicator for the KA Football Club Global Rating.

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1Q 2023 Performance ranking of CONCACAF clubs in international matches – ELO method

March 16, 2023

	Club	Country	League	Pts	IC3	diff.	Zone/Region
1	Seattle Sounders FC	USA 🇺🇸	USA	30,987	1,563	≡	CONCACAF North America
2	Monterrey	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	24,064	1,215	≡	CONCACAF North America
3	Cruz Azul	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	23,569	1,191	+1	CONCACAF North America
4	América	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	22,668	1,141	-1	CONCACAF North America
5	UANL Tigres	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	20,057	1,010	≡	CONCACAF North America
6	Olimpia Tegucigalpa	HON 🇭🇳	HON	18,776	0,945	≡	CONCACAF Central America
7	Saprissa	CRC 🇨🇷	CRC	18,146	0,916	≡	CONCACAF Central America
8	New York City FC	USA 🇺🇸	USA	18,082	0,912	≡	CONCACAF North America
9	León	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	16,750	0,848	+1	CONCACAF North America
10	F.C. Motagua	HON 🇭🇳	HON	16,635	0,839	-1	CONCACAF Central America
11	Comunicaciones	GUA 🇬🇹	GUA	14,851	0,748	+1	CONCACAF Central America
12	Pumas UNAM	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	14,651	0,738	+2	CONCACAF North America
13	Atlanta United	USA 🇺🇸	USA	14,499	0,734	-2	CONCACAF North America
14	New York Red Bulls	USA 🇺🇸	USA	14,003	0,705	-1	CONCACAF North America
15	Toronto FC	CAN 🇨🇦	USA	12,288	0,621	≡	CONCACAF North America
16	CF Montréal	CAN 🇨🇦	USA	11,637	0,588	≡	CONCACAF North America
17	Philadelphia Union	USA 🇺🇸	USA	11,104	0,562	+4	CONCACAF North America
18	Herediano	CRC 🇨🇷	CRC	9,800	0,496	+2	CONCACAF Central America
19	Alianza	SLV 🇸🇻	SLV	9,622	0,486	≡	CONCACAF Central America
20	CD Marathón	HON 🇭🇳	HON	9,536	0,480	-3	CONCACAF Central America
21	Santos Laguna	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	9,530	0,484	-3	CONCACAF North America
22	Alajuelense	CRC 🇨🇷	CRC	8,982	0,454	≡	CONCACAF Central America
23	Tauro	PAN 🇵🇦	PAN	8,805	0,443	+1	CONCACAF Central America
24	Sporting Kansas City	USA 🇺🇸	USA	7,741	0,410	-1	CONCACAF North America
25	Atlas	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	7,358	0,410	+17	CONCACAF North America
26	Los Angeles FC	USA 🇺🇸	USA	6,848	0,413	+6	CONCACAF North America
27	Independiente de la Chorrera	PAN 🇵🇦	PAN	6,769	0,410	-2	CONCACAF Central America
28	Guadalajara	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	6,702	0,410	-2	CONCACAF North America
29	Houston Dynamo	USA 🇺🇸	USA	6,581	0,412	-2	CONCACAF North America
30	Tijuana	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	6,110	0,410	-2	CONCACAF North America
31	Forge FC	CAN 🇨🇦	CAN	5,948	0,410	-2	CONCACAF North America
32	Portland Timbers	USA 🇺🇸	USA	5,677	0,410	-2	CONCACAF North America
33	Guastatoya	GUA 🇬🇹	GUA	5,663	0,410	-2	CONCACAF Central America
34	Columbus Crew SC	USA 🇺🇸	USA	5,451	0,413	-1	CONCACAF North America
35	Violette	HAI 🇭🇹	HAI	5,264	0,410	+9	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
36	Austin FC	USA 🇺🇸	USA	5,216	0,410	+47	CONCACAF North America
37	Orlando City SC	USA 🇺🇸	USA	5,017	0,413	+21	CONCACAF North America
38	New England Revolution	USA 🇺🇸	USA	3,013	0,412	-4	CONCACAF North America
39	Real España	HON 🇭🇳	HON	3,003	0,410	-3	CONCACAF Central America
40	Cibao	DOM 🇩🇴	DOM	2,673	0,410	-1	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
41	Santos de Guápiles	CRC 🇨🇷	CRC	2,391	0,410	-6	CONCACAF Central America
42	Vancouver Whitecaps	CAN 🇨🇦	USA	1,937	0,410	+19	CONCACAF North America
43	Pachuca	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	1,837	0,413	+14	CONCACAF North America
44	Real Estelí	NCA 🇳🇮	NCA	1,598	0,410	-4	CONCACAF Central America
45	Pacific FC	CAN 🇨🇦	CAN	1,516	0,410	-2	CONCACAF North America
46	FC Dallas	USA 🇺🇸	USA	1,408	0,410	-9	CONCACAF North America
47	Bayamón	PUR 🇵🇷	PUR	1,345	0,410	≡	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
48	Municipal	GUA 🇬🇹	GUA	1,316	0,410	-2	CONCACAF Central America
49	Colorado Rapids	USA 🇺🇸	USA	1,315	0,413	-11	CONCACAF North America
50	Inter Moengotapoe	SUR 🇸🇷	SUR	1,166	0,410	-2	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
51	Waterhouse	JAM 🇯🇲	JAM	0,903	0,410	+2	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
52	Sporting San Miguelito	PAN 🇵🇦	PAN	0,894	0,410	≡	CONCACAF Central America
53	Atlético Pantoja	DOM 🇩🇴	DOM	0,845	0,410	-12	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
54	AS Gosier	GLP 🇬🇵	GLP	0,822	0,410	≡	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
55	Diriangén FC	NCA 🇳🇮	NCA	0,727	0,410	≡	CONCACAF Central America
56	Portmore United	JAM 🇯🇲	JAM	0,397	0,410	-11	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
57	Santa Tecla	SLV 🇸🇻	SLV	0,276	0,410	-8	CONCACAF Central America
58	Arcahaie FC	HAI 🇭🇹	HAI	0,242	0,410	+2	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
59	Toluca	MEX 🇲🇽	MEX	0,224	0,410	-9	CONCACAF North America
60	Cavaly AS	HAI 🇭🇹	HAI	0,173	0,410	-9	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
61	Alianza Panama	PAN 🇵🇦	PAN	0,129	0,410	+2	CONCACAF Central America
62	SWA Sharks FC	TCA 🇹🇨	TCA	0,076	0,410	+7	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
63	Águila	SLV 🇸🇻	SLV	0,058	0,410	+4	CONCACAF Central America
64	Malacateco	GUA 🇬🇹	GUA	0,055	0,410	+4	CONCACAF Central America
65	Cartaginés	CRC 🇨🇷	CRC	0,050	0,410	+5	CONCACAF Central America
66	Árabe Unido	PAN 🇵🇦	PAN	0,043	0,410	-10	CONCACAF Central America
67	AD San Carlos	CRC 🇨🇷	CRC	0,038	0,410	-8	CONCACAF Central America
68	Platense Zacatecoluca	SLV 🇸🇻	SLV	0,034	0,410	+3	CONCACAF Central America
69	Golden Lion FC	MTQ 🇲🇶	MTQ	0,024	0,410	+4	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas
70	Los Angeles Galaxy	USA 🇺🇸	USA	0,015	0,413	-8	CONCACAF North America
71	Club Deportivo Universitario	PAN 🇵🇦	PAN	0,004	0,410	-7	CONCACAF Central America
72	Real Salt Lake	USA 🇺🇸	USA	0,002	0,410	-6	CONCACAF North America
73	Chicago Fire	USA 🇺🇸	USA	0,002	0,412	-8	CONCACAF North America
74	Cavalier	JAM 🇯🇲	JAM	0,001	0,410	+8	CONCACAF Caribbean and the Guianas