Outrageous! UEFA places FC Barcelona behind United, Chelsea and Villarreal in its ranking

Published:12/07/2024 - 13:24h

Updated:12/07/2024 - 13:24h

The UEFA has revealed this Friday his more recent update of the ranking of clubs, a list that has surprised to many. And it is that although it treats of a ranking objective, that governs by coefficients, the FC Barcelona is almost out of the first 20 places and being surpassed by clubs with worse present in Europe

The UEFA has published this Friday his ranking of clubs for the season 2024/25, taking in account the performance of each one of his clubs affiliated in the last five campaigns inside the distinct European competitions. The teams accumulate points of distinct ways along each course and finally the organism rector of the European football totaliza the last five points achieved to give to know his more recent ranking.

For surprise of few, the Manchester City finds in the highest with a total of 123,000 points, a quantity that has achieved thanks to having champion and runner-up in the last four tournaments, in addition to reaching semifinals and quarter-finals in the others two editions. The English are followed closely by the Real Madrid, which totaliza 119,000 points. However, one of the big news of the ranking is the surprising position of the FC Barcelona in the list, and also the clubs that surpass him right now.

The surprise outrages to clubs like the Barça

The culés find situated in the position 18 of the ranking of clubs of the UEFA, a fact that clearly is based in the two consecutive eliminations that had the team culé in phase of groups between 2021 and 2022. But it jumps in sight that the Barça was surpassed by teams with a present and recent past in Europe that has been even more negative, as it can be the case of Chelsea and Manchester United.

And it is that although the londinenses raised the title in the 2020/2021, the past season directly remained out of Europe, and before this did not go back to be one of the best four of the competition, for example. With the United the surprise is still greater, taking into account that it treats of a team that no longer is a fixed in Champions, but there is where roots the main problem: the UEFA value all his tournaments by equal.

The system of punctuation seems totally wrong by part of the UEFA

It is thus that the ones of Old Trafford can situate in the fourteenth position, as well as it does it the Villarreal in a surprising seventh box. The UEFA delivers the same quantity of points by victories, ties or classifications to rounds of 'KO' in Champions, Europe League and Conference League, allowing that clubs like the Barça remain marginados to the place 18 when it has remained competing in front of the best rivals each season, further of the two tropiezos already mentioned in the first phase of the maximum competition of clubs of the world.

The surprises do not finish there, taking into account besides that the Rome appears like the fifth better team of Europe, with 90,000 points, as well as that the Bayer Leverkusen (11) and the West Ham United (16) also finish surpassing to the Barça. To continuation review the first 20 qualifiers of the ranking and his respective punctuation.