Real Madrid leapfrog Man City into UEFA rankings top spot, Man United stay above Arsenal
Real Madrid have leapfrogged Manchester City to become UEFA's top-ranked club for the 2025-26 season, despite the Spanish side's exit from the Champions League at the quarter-final stage.
UEFA, the governing body of European football, have calculated the annual club standings — which influence seedings in draws for its club competitions — for 2025-26.
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It is determined using a point-based system over a rolling five-year period, with points dependent on the club's performances in continental competitions which are measured using a weighted algorithm. The rankings for 2025-26 are based on accumulated coefficient in European competition from 2020-21 onwards.
A club's five-season coefficient is determined by either the cumulative sum of its points in the five-year period or by 20 per cent of its association's coefficient over the same period, whichever tally is higher.
This is a period which has seen Madrid win two Champions League trophies, in 2021-22 and 2023-24, with City's sole success coming in 2022-23.
Pep Guardiola's side endured a difficult Champions League campaign in 2024-25, losing 6-3 on aggregate to Madrid in the play-off round ahead of the last-16 stage.
The 2025-26 Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain and beaten finalists Inter are ranked fifth and sixth, moving up one and four positions respectively.
Bayern Munich and Liverpool remain third and fourth respectively in the standings, while Chelsea have moved up three places to seventh following their Conference League success.
The top 10 is completed by Borussia Dortmund, Roma and Barcelona, the latter of whom reached the Champions League semi-final stage for the first time in six seasons.
Manchester United, who were defeated by Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League final, are in 11th-place — up three places from the previous year — while Tottenham are 27th.
United remain above Arsenal, despite Mikel Arteta's side's run to the Champions League semi-final stage this season and having reached the last-eight in 2023-24, ahead of Bayer Leverkusen (13th, down two), Atletico Madrid (14th, up three) and Benfica (15th).
Aston Villa, who reached the Champions League quarter-final stage this season before exiting to PSG, are 46th in the list, having not competed in European football for three of the five culminative seasons.
Beaten Conference League finalists Real Betis are ranked 40th, while Bodo/Glimt of Norway, who reached the Europa League semi-finals, are 43rd.
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