We present a UEFA Cup Power Rankings special, with our system pointing to Everton as the British side best-placed for success.

We take into account both domestic and European performances, plus the relative difficulty of each team's league, to find out who is the best team in Europe.

Our rankings suggest Everton and Rangers have by far the best chance of UEFA Cup success, coming in a second and eighth respectively.

The number make grim reading for the other three British teams in the competition.

Tottenham's recent revival is not enough to take them into the top 20 but they do have cup specialist Juande Ramos at the helm.

Bolton and Aberdeen are rated as having no chance - they fill two of the bottom three positions with the Dons dead last.

To add insult to injury, the pair face off against Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich - ranked third and sixth respectively.

Overall ranking - including Champions League teams - in brackets. See below table for how the formula works:

1 (9) Villarreal - 19.80

2 (10) Everton - 19.71

3 (11) Atletico Madrid - 19.58

4 (14) Panathinaikos - 19.20

5 (15) Bordeaux - 19.10

6 (16) Bayern Munich - 18.81

7 (18) Hamburg - 18.72

8 (20) Rangers - 18.24

9 (21) Basel - 17.73

10 (24) Benfica - 16.63

11 (25) Spartak Moscow - 16.53

12 (26) Werder Bremen - 16.26

13 (27) Bayer Leverkusen - 16.05

14 (29) Rosenborg - 15.81

15 (30) Fiorentina - 15.30

16 (32) Slavia Prague - 14.75

17 (33) PSV Eindhoven - 14.67

18 (34) Zenit St Petersburg - 14.13

19 (35) Getafe - 14.09

20 (36) Galatasaray - 13.81

22 (39) Tottenham Hotspur - 13.49

30 (46) Bolton Wanderers - 11.47

32 (48) Aberdeen - 9.28

HOW IT WORKS

We take into account a combination of both domestic and Champions League performances, factoring in the relative difficulty of each team's league, to find out who is the best team in Europe.

Scores are based on points per game in domestic league and European games.

Domestic points per game are multiplied by the league coefficient - either 4, 4.5 or 5 - with teams in stronger leagues getting more credit.

Champions League victories are counted as three points for a win and multiplied by a coefficient of 5.

UEFA Cup victories are counted as three points for a win and mulitplied by a coefficient of 4.

Domestic and European totals are then added together. If a side has played in both Champions League and UEFA Cup, its European total is an average of the two scores.

League coefficients:

England, Spain, Italy = 5

Germany, Portugal, France = 4.5

Others = 4

Example: Villarreal

42 points from 23 Liga games = 1.83 points per game.

Multiplied by league coefficient of five - 1.83 x 5 = 9.13

16 points from 6 UEFA Cup games (including qualifying) = 2.67 points per game.

Multiplied by UEFA Cup coefficient of four - 10.67

Total score = 9.13 + 10.67 = 19.80

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