Unusual! Barça occupies 18th place in the UEFA ranking, its worst record since 1977

The FC Barcelona will begin the next edition of the Champions situated in the place 18 of the ranking of clubs of UEFA. The last update of the coefficients awards to the culés a total of 67.000, same register that the Athletic of Madrid and very far of the 123.000 points that adds the Manchester City, leader of the general table above Real Madrid (119.000) and Bayern Munich (108.000).

For the Barça, the eliminations in phase of groups in the seasons 2021/22 and 2022/23 of Champions, added to the toneless performances in Europe League (defeats in quarter-finals of 2022 and in the 'playoff' of 2023) have happened bill in spite of having reached the quarter-finals the past season like valid Spanish champion. The free fall in the ranking initiated with the hard elimination in the 'semis' of the Champions 2018/19 in front of the Liverpool, when the culés were second by behind the Real Madrid.

The Barça faces his worst ranking European in almost 50 years

Since, the Barça has suffered hard defeats that no only have affected his prestige and finances, but also the coefficient UEFA. Although it seem unusual, clubs like West Ham (16) and Benfica (15) add more points that the Barcelona group (69.000), as well as Manchester United (14) and RB Leipzig (13), both equalised with 70.000 points. In the top 10 flame the attention the presence of clubs like Rome (5) and Villarreal (7), both clubs benefited by his recent successes in the Conference and Europe League, respectively.

In this sense, the Barça faces his worst ranking European from the season 1976/77, that is to say, 48 years. To the start of that campaign, the culés also occupied the place 18. From the 77/78, the FC Barcelona always kept inside the top 10 until the 2021/22, when it fell to the place 12. The worst ranking historical of the club keeps on being the one of the 73/74, before the arrival of Johan Cruyff, with the Barça like the 32° team of the continent.