UEFA ELO Leagues & Clubs Ranking

ELO Ranking – European Club Competitions & Matches

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3Q 2023 Performance Ranking of European leagues in international matches – derived ELO method

September 21, 2023

	League (s)		Clubs	Pts	RPS_PIF	ex pos.	diff.	Zone/Region
1	England	ENG	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿	64,012	1007,663	1	≡	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
2	Italy	ITA	🇮🇹	56,080	882,800	2	≡	Europe South
3	Spain	ESP	🇪🇸🇦🇩	51,409	809,269	3	≡	Europe South
4	Germany	GER	🇩🇪	32,977	519,117	4	≡	Europe West
5	Portugal	POR	🇵🇹	30,821	485,177	5	≡	Europe South
6	France	FRA	🇫🇷🇲🇨	26,541	417,803	6	≡	Europe West
7	Netherlands	NED	🇳🇱	21,739	342,211	7	≡	Europe West
8	Türkiye	TUR	🇹🇷	15,098	237,670	15	+7	Euro-Asian UEFA
9	Belgium	BEL	🇧🇪	13,708	215,789	8	-1	Europe West
10	Austria	AUT	🇦🇹	13,136	206,784	9	-1	Europe Central and East
11	Czech Republic	CZE	🇨🇿	12,934	203,604	13	+2	Europe Central and East
12	Ukraine	UKR	🇺🇦	11,515	181,266	10	-2	Europe Central and East
13	Greece	GRE	🇬🇷	10,333	162,660	20	+7	Europe South
14	Switzerland	SUI	🇨🇭🇱🇮	9,901	155,859	12	-2	Europe West
15	Serbia	SRB	🇷🇸	9,688	152,506	11	-4	Europe South
16	Denmark	DEN	🇩🇰	9,056	142,558	19	+3	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
17	Croatia	CRO	🇭🇷	8,886	139,881	17	≡	Europe South
18	Scotland	SCO	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿	8,740	137,583	14	-4	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
19	Israel	ISR	🇮🇱	8,263	130,074	18	-1	Euro-Asian UEFA
20	Russia	RUS	🇷🇺	6,454	101,597	16	-4	Euro-Asian UEFA
21	Cyprus	CYP	🇨🇾	4,560	71,782	25	+4	Euro-Asian UEFA
22	Poland	POL	🇵🇱	4,551	71,641	30	+8	Europe Central and East
23	Sweden	SWE	🇸🇪	4,147	65,281	23	≡	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
24	Azerbaijan	AZE	🇦🇿	4,139	65,156	26	+2	Euro-Asian UEFA
25	Romania	ROU	🇷🇴	4,083	64,274	24	-1	Europe Central and East
26	Moldova	MDA	🇲🇩	3,806	59,913	21	-5	Europe Central and East
27	Hungary	HUN	🇭🇺	3,266	51,412	27	≡	Europe Central and East
28	Norway	NOR	🇳🇴	3,171	49,918	28	≡	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
29	Bulgaria	BUL	🇧🇬	3,150	49,587	22	-7	Europe South
30	Slovakia	SVK	🇸🇰	1,677	26,399	29	-1	Europe Central and East
31	Iceland	ISL	🇮🇸	1,269	19,976	31	≡	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
32	Slovenia	SVN	🇸🇮	1,022	16,088	34	+2	Europe South
33	Luxembourg	LUX	🇱🇺	0,953	15,002	37	+4	Europe West
34	Armenia	ARM	🇦🇲	0,850	13,380	35	+1	Euro-Asian UEFA
35	Albania	ALB	🇦🇱	0,774	12,184	54	+19	Europe South
36	Kazakhstan	KAZ	🇰🇿	0,745	11,727	36	≡	Euro-Asian UEFA
37	Faroe Islands	FRO	🇫🇴	0,656	10,326	46	+9	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH	🇧🇦	0,634	9,980	43	+5	Europe South
39	Kosovo	KVX	🇽🇰	0,562	8,847	38	-1	Europe South
40	Belarus	BLR	🇧🇾	0,515	8,107	47	+7	Europe Central and East
41	Lithuania	LTU	🇱🇹	0,458	7,209	33	-8	Europe Central and East
42	Finland	FIN	🇫🇮	0,443	6,974	32	-10	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
43	Republic of Ireland	IRL	🇮🇪🇬🇧	0,429	6,753	40	-3	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
44	Latvia	LVA	🇱🇻	0,386	6,076	45	+1	Europe Central and East
45	Andorra	AND	🇦🇩	0,305	4,801	41	-4	Europe South
46	Georgia	GEO	🇬🇪	0,297	4,675	53	+7	Euro-Asian UEFA
47	North Macedonia	MKD	🇲🇰	0,279	4,392	49	+2	Europe South
48	Malta	MLT	🇲🇹	0,245	3,857	44	-4	Europe South
49	Northern Ireland	NIR	🇬🇧	0,181	2,850	48	-1	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
50	Wales	WAL	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿	0,131	2,062	51	+1	Europe - British Isles and Nordics
51	San Marino	SMR	🇸🇲	0,106	1,668	42	-9	Europe South
52	Montenegro	MNE	🇲🇪	0,062	0,976	39	-13	Europe South
53	Gibraltar	GIB	🇬🇮	0,054	0,850	52	-1	Europe South

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Notes
ELO UEFA – International Matches – Leagues & Clubs Performance Rankings
Each club is awarded points following a match outcome based on the ELO method scheme. Points are calculated based on the relative strength of both opponents and an expected outcome factor, taking into account the importance of the match, the outcome, and the goal difference. Club points are utilized to rank the clubs. The points for clubs are then converted to league scores. All international matches arranged or recognized by FIFA or the continental federation are covered by rankings. This mainly covers the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League in Europe.
Meaning of the continental ranking versus global ranking
The continental ranking has a technical nature as it displays a league or club’s position solely based on international cups like the Champions League. For a more accurate ranking of actual football strength and quality, please refer to the the KA Football Leagues Global Rating or the KA Football Club Global Rating. The primary distinction between the regional rankings and the worldwide rankings is that the latter employs a more extensive dataset. Thus, the global league ranking consider factors concerning the appeal and impact of the leagues on international football, alongside the football reputation of the nation. These discrepancies in their calculation methodology are even more observable in the worldwide club classification, where also factor in a club’s domestic performance and the league’s global standing. Accordingly, football clubs that compete in highly-regarded domestic leagues but rarely get involved in international tournaments also appear in the worldwide rankings and, at times, achieve commendable positions.

Notes
Multinational Leagues
Some countries have more than one flag displayed. This means that clubs from other countries can participate in the league systems of these countries, although only those countries where foreign clubs are usually present in the first or second division are marked in this way.
Great Britain & Ireland
Parts of the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have a separate membership in UEFA / FIFA and have their own leagues. Despite the Welsh Premier League – Swansea City and Cardiff City play in the English Premier League or EFL Championship. Newport County is a professional club in Newport, South Wales. The team competes in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Wrexham AFC based in Wrexham competes also in the EFL League Two. Other Welsh club Merthyr Town, currently playing in the Southern League – Premier South, in the seventh tier of the English system. There are also other cases on the very lower level, when clubs form Wales, Scotland and England play in the leagues of the system belonging to other country in the UK. There are also some examples dealing with border issues e.g. the New Saints F.C. is a club representing Oswestry in England and at the same time Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain in Wales plays in Welsh Premier League. Derry City F.C. based in Northern Ireland, plays in the league of Ireland Premier Division. British Crown Dependencies: Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man have separate leagues and national teams and they are not member of UEFA / FIFA. Some of clubs from these countries participate in the lower divisions of English league system (Jersey Bulls F.C., Guernsey F.C., F.C. Isle of Man). The Priaulx League (Guernsey), the Jersey Football Combination (a league of Jersey) and the Isle of Man Football League are affiliated with the English FA, but they do not form a part of the English football league system. The Isle of Man is also a member of the FA, as county football assocciation. People born in the Isle of Man are eligible to play for official UK national teams. Following British overseas territories have separate membership in FIFA and/or continental federations: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, and Turks & Caicos Islands.
France & Monaco
Monaco is not a member of UEFA/FIFA and does not have a professional league. AS Monaco FC plays in the French football league system. Following French overseas territories have separate a membership in FIFA and/or continental federation: French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, New Caledonia, Reunion, Saint Martin and Tahiti (French Polynesia).
Netherlands
Following Dutch overseas territories have separate a membership in FIFA and/or CONCACAF: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
Liechtenstein / Switzerland
Liechtenstein has a membership of UEFA/FIFA but all clubs in Liechtenstein play in the Swiss football league system. FC Büsingen is a German club based in the exclave of Büsingen that competes in the Swiss league system.
Spain & Andorra
FC Andorra is a club based in Encamp, Andorra. Although based in Andorra, they compete in the Spanish football league system (currently in Segunda División), not in the Andorran Primera Divisió.
Denmark
The Faroe Islands, autonomous territory within Denmark are a full member of UEFA and FIFA. They have Faroe Islands Premier League and national team. Other autonomous territory Greenland has no international recognition (according to FIFA rules), but Football Association of Greenland is a member of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations.
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_PIF and IC3. RPS (Relative Point Score) is a value obtained by converting ELO points acquired in a ranking according to the same formula used throughout the KA system. This practice enables the comparison of values from different continental rankings. Each RPS assigned to a certain league is multiplied by PIF (Power Index Federation), which allows for the determination of the KA Football Leagues Global Rating. The Inter-Continental Club Coefficient (IC3) is solely dedicated to clubs and is determined by their continental ranking points, taking into consideration the PIF (Power Index Federation) of the continent, as well as the AIF value. It is a crucial indicator for determining the KA Football Club Global Rating.
UEFA Members
As a general rule, the UEFA ranking includes all members except Liechtenstein, which does not provide a league game (54 members). However, if all clubs from the same country fail to receive points or obtain a negative score, that league cannot be included in the ranking.

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