UEFA coefficient live: the country ranking for the 2026/27 season

How the country coefficient is calculated

Every match a club plays in the Champions League, the Europa League or the Conference League earns points. A win is worth 2 and a draw 1, and in the qualifying rounds those values are halved. Results decided in extra time count, a penalty shoot-out does not change the points. On top of the match points a club can earn bonus points for reaching later stages, and these are added to the season total.

The step that makes the ranking about countries rather than clubs is the averaging. An association's score for one season is the sum of its clubs' points divided by the number of clubs it entered. An association that enters nine clubs and collects a large total is measured per club, so a federation with two entrants and one deep run is not automatically ahead of a federation with nine entrants and steady results. The values are calculated to three decimal places and truncated, never rounded up.

Five of these season values are then added. The total in the last column of the table is that sum, and the whole ranking is sorted by it. The five-season window is the reason a single great season matters for five years and then disappears all at once: when a new season is added, the oldest drops out, and associations that were strong in the dropped year lose that contribution in a single step.

Club coefficients work differently

A club's coefficient is its own points over the same five seasons, or 20% of the association's five-season coefficient, whichever of the two is higher. That second route is a floor for clubs from strong associations that have had a few quiet years. It is also why the club ranking and the country ranking can seem to disagree: they measure different things from the same matches.

Reading the five-season ranking

The five columns left of the total show how the total was built. Read them as a timeline: the column on the far left is 2022/23, the oldest season still counted, and the column on the far right is 2026/27, the season in progress. An association whose older columns are large and whose current column is small is living off earlier results, and its position will slip as the oldest season leaves the window unless the current season recovers it.

The ranking is tight in the middle. France, in fifth place, has 71.010 points and Portugal, in sixth, has 67.350, a difference of 3.660. Between Greece in tenth and Czechia in eleventh there is only 0.887, so a few results can swap the two. Places in that part of the table change from week to week while the matches are played, which is what makes the UEFA coefficient live table worth checking.

The top is less volatile. England leads Italy by 15.731 points. The five highest-ranked associations together hold 28.3% of all the points in the table, which is a measure of how concentrated European success is among a handful of leagues.

The season so far

England has the highest 2026/27 value at 7.944 points. 9 associations still have every one of their clubs in a competition, which is the typical picture early in a season, before eliminations start to reduce the field. Russia appears in the table without any 2026/27 matches, so its total is made only of older seasons.

Who has led the UEFA country coefficient ranking

The UEFA country coefficient ranking has had 2 different leaders between 2004/05 and 2025/26: Spain, England. Read as runs of consecutive seasons, the lead has changed hands like this: Spain from 2004/05 to 2006/07; England from 2007/08 to 2011/12; Spain from 2012/13 to 2019/20; England from 2020/21 to 2025/26.

England is at the top of the current table, so the run that began in 2020/21 is still the most recent one. A lead of 15.731 points over Italy is large next to the size of one season, since the best single-season values in the table are in the region of 29.464 points. That means the order at the very top is unlikely to change inside one autumn, and the real movement is further down.

Which associations moved most in the live ranking

Comparing the ranking at the end of 2015/16 with the ranking at the end of 2025/26 shows who has gained and who has lost ground over 10 seasons. The biggest rises: Armenia from 48th to 33rd (15 places); Denmark from 24th to 13th (11 places); Hungary from 33rd to 22nd (11 places); Republic of Ireland from 41st to 31st (10 places). The biggest falls: Belarus from 20th to 50th (30 places); Russia from 7th to 28th (21 places); Georgia from 36th to 53rd (17 places); Ukraine from 8th to 23rd (15 places).

The top ten itself has changed less than the lower half. Compared with 2015/16, Türkiye, Czechia are now in the top ten and Russia, Ukraine have left it. The UEFA coefficient live table shows today's ranking; this history shows how slowly the five-season window actually moves an association.

How close the places are in the country ranking

Of the nineteen gaps between neighbouring places in the top twenty, 5 are smaller than one point. The largest is 15.731. A gap below one point is within reach of a single good week, and a gap above ten is not within reach of a single season.

A worked example of a live update

An association's season value is its clubs' points divided by the number of clubs it entered. England entered 9 clubs in 2026/27, so one win by any of them adds 0.222 to the 2026/27 column and to the five-season total, and one draw adds 0.111. A win in a qualifying round counts half, which is 0.111 for the same association. An association with fewer clubs gains more per result: with five clubs a group-stage win is worth 0.400. This is why a small association with one successful club can move faster than a large one, and why the UEFA coefficient live table can reshuffle in the middle even when the leaders look settled.

Who gains and loses in the country ranking this season

Two readings of the table show where the next movement is likely to come from. The first is the oldest column. When the 2022/23 season leaves the window, every association loses its value for that season and has to replace it with the 2026/27 season. The associations that had the largest 2022/23 values have the most to replace: England (23.000), Italy (22.357), Germany (17.125), Spain (16.571), Belgium (14.200). An association on that list has to match its own best past season just to stand still, which is a harder test than it sounds.

The second reading is the current season on its own. Sorting the associations by their 2026/27 value alone, rather than by the five-season total, shows which of them are ahead of their ranking so far. The largest gaps between the place in the five-season total and the place in the current season are: Estonia (49th in the ranking, 32nd this season with 2.500); Latvia (35th in the ranking, 19th this season with 4.125); Albania (42nd in the ranking, 27th this season with 3.000); Andorra (46th in the ranking, 31st this season with 2.500); Finland (37th in the ranking, 25th this season with 3.375). Early in the season these gaps are partly the effect of small samples, so they say more about momentum than about what the final order will be.

Neither reading predicts the final ranking, and neither is meant to. They show what the table is made of. The five-season total is a stock built from past seasons, and the current season is the flow that is being added to it. The UEFA coefficient live table changes when the flow is large enough, or the stock loses enough with the departing season, to reorder the neighbours.

What the UEFA country ranking decides

The country ranking decides how many clubs each association sends to the three competitions and at which stage they enter, either straight into the league phase or through qualifying. A higher place means more clubs and later entry. The allocation is fixed in advance: the ranking at the end of a season determines the places for the season after the next one, not for the one that follows. A good run now is therefore paid out with a delay of two seasons.

That delay is also why the live table is worth following. A result in October is added to a figure that will be locked in at the end of the season and will then shape the entry places two years later. The clubs that earn the points are not always the ones that benefit, because the places go to the association and are filled by its domestic league and cup results.

The association ranking is separate from the seeding of individual clubs in a draw. Seeding uses the club coefficient. If you want to see how a draw might fall, the draw simulator uses the club figures, and the Champions League standings show the league phase as it is played.

Where Switzerland stands in the country ranking

Switzerland is 16th in the table with 31.200 points. Cyprus is directly ahead on 35.443, a gap of 4.243, and Austria is directly behind on 29.250, 1.950 below. The five seasons contributing to the Swiss total are 2022/23: 8.500, 2023/24: 5.200, 2024/25: 7.050, 2025/26: 6.200, 2026/27: 4.250.

Across the seasons from 2004/05 to 2025/26 the Swiss position has ranged from 11th, its best, at the end of 2014/15 to 19th, its lowest, at the end of 2004/05. The UEFA country coefficient ranking therefore places Switzerland in the upper middle of the table rather than at either end. The domestic picture, with the current Swiss Super League table and results, is on its own page, and the league predictions cover the season ahead.

A season in the live coefficient

The coefficient does not move evenly through the year. Matches begin in the qualifying rounds in the summer, where every result is worth half of its later value, so the first weeks add little. The league phase starts the main flow of points: in each of the three competitions 36 clubs play a league phase, and every association with a club in it receives a new set of results every matchday. The knockout rounds follow, with fewer clubs but with bonus points available for the associations that still have teams in play.

The shape of a season therefore reads from the table in a recognisable way. In autumn the current-season column is small for everyone and the order is almost entirely the order of the four older columns. In winter the league-phase results separate the associations with many clubs still in play from those whose entrants have been eliminated. In spring the knockout results decide the final values, and the places at the edge of the table are settled on the last European matchdays.

Because the five-season total is a simple sum, the effect of the current season can be read directly. Take the current column away and the remaining four are final. The difference between an association's total and its four older seasons is the amount still to be decided, and that is why an association with a thin lead can be safe if its current column is already healthy and exposed if it is not.

Common misreadings of the country ranking

Treating one column as the ranking. The ranking is the five-season sum. An association can have the best figure of the current season and still sit lower, because the older columns carry most of the weight.

Reading the ranking as the strength of a league. The coefficient measures results of clubs in three specific competitions. It does not rank the quality of domestic football, and an association with few European entrants is measured on a small sample.

Ignoring the averaging. Points are divided by the number of clubs an association entered. Adding a weak club to the entrants lowers the average for that association, and a federation with fewer clubs can therefore lead the current season over one with many.

Expecting a result to count at once for the allocation. The places an association receives are set from the ranking at the end of a season for the season after the next one. A strong autumn changes the live number, not the places for the coming season.

Confusing the country ranking with the club ranking. The country table orders associations. The club table orders clubs, and a club's figure can come from its association's five-season coefficient instead of its own points, whichever is higher. The two tables answer different questions from the same results.

Terms used in the UEFA country ranking

Coefficient. A number built from match points, used for ranking and for seeding in draws.

Association coefficient. The sum of an association's last five season values, where each season value is its clubs' total points divided by the number of clubs it entered. It is the number the table above is sorted by.

Club coefficient. A club's own points over five seasons, or twenty percent of its association's five-season coefficient, whichever is higher. It is used to seed clubs in draws.

Season value. The points one association earned in one season, already averaged over its clubs. Each of the five columns in the table is a season value.

Window. The five seasons that are counted. When a new season starts to count, the oldest one leaves.

Bonus points. Extra points added to a club's season total for reaching certain stages of the competitions.

League phase. The first stage of each of the three competitions, in which every club plays a set of matches in one table instead of in small groups. The Champions League table shows it as played.

Allocation. The number of clubs an association sends to each competition and the stage at which they enter. The country ranking decides it, with a delay of two seasons.