Champions League - Euro Club Index: Chelsea put squeeze on Bayern
Chelsea are on the verge of overtaking Bayern Munich in the Euro Club Index after beating them in the Champions League final.
HOW IT WORKS
This season we will use the Hypercube Infostrada Euro Club Index, which scientifically analyses hundreds of thousands of matches from the top divisions in all European nations as well as Europa League and Champions League games.
The Index takes into account all matches played over an eight-year period but with recent results carrying more weight than older ones. The most recent result has 20 times more impact than a result of three years ago.
The performance of a league's teams in the Champions League and Europa League reflects the rise or fall of the sporting level in that league. So, for example, if English teams perform well in Europe, all Premier League teams receive a small bonus in their ECI score. The ranking and its predictive power are thus made even more accurate.
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Chelsea may have beaten Bayern Munich in Saturday's Champions League final, but victory at the Allianz Arena was not enough to see the Londoners move above their vanquished German opponents in the Euro Club Index.
The win in a penalty shootout was only worth nine points to sixth-placed Chelsea, just as it only knocked nine off fifth-placed Bayern's total, leaving a gap of 67 points remaining. If Chelsea get next season off to a good start and Bayern do not, then that order will change.
With very few other matches happening in Europe over the past week, changes elsewhere in the rankings are few and far between. Serie A champions Juventus drop three places after they lost the Coppa Italia final to Napoli to end their bid for an unbeaten season. Things are so close in the lower reaches of the top 20 that the solitary defeat drops the Bianconeri to 17th, while Napoli move up to 32nd.
In France, Lille may have lost their Ligue 1 title but they signed off in style with a 4-1 win over Nancy which included a hat-trick from Eden Hazard. The win preserves their status as France's only top-20 side, although newly-crowned champions Montpellier end the campaign in 35th place and runners-up Paris St Germain 21st.
There is one major match left in Spain this season, Friday's Copa del Rey final between Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. If Barca win, they could move above bitter rivals Real Madrid at the top of the ranking just two weeks after losing their long-held number one spot.
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Top 20
1 (1) Real Madrid – 4371 points
2 (2) Barcelona – 4352
3 (3) Manchester United - 3703
4 (4) Manchester City – 3512
5 (5) Bayern Munich - 3479
6 (6) Chelsea - 3412
7 (7) Porto - 3382
8 (8) Borussia Dortmund - 3313
9 (9) Arsenal - 3262
10 (10) AC Milan - 3204
11 (11) Atletico Madrid – 3197
12 (12) Benfica - 3140
13 (13) Shakhtar Donetsk - 3125
14 (15) Valencia – 3095
=15 (=16) Ajax – 3083
=15 (=16) Zenit St Petersburg – 3083
17 (14) Juventus – 3078
18 (19) Lille - 3063
19 (18) Tottenham Hotspur - 3058
20 (20) PSV - 3031
Other British clubs in top 100
24 (24) Everton - 2916
29 (30) Liverpool - 2867
44 (44) Newcastle United - 2714
53 (53) Fulham – 2649
64 (64) Celtic - 2557
71 (72) Aston Villa – 2460
78 (78) Stoke City - 2447
91 (94) West Bromwich Albion – 2397
92 (95) Rangers – 2365
96 (97) Sunderland – 2347


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There is NO RANGERS, that team is LIQUIDATED, Gone, finished, defunct,
Lame
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All trailing behind United!!!
This just demonstrates how charts and graphs can be arbitrarily manipulated. There is no way to compare conclusively if you play in the top league of your respective nation. Money can help you make an educated guess but can you really tell how Swansea would do in the German league or Bayern in the Italian league? And surely here in this context it is who has won the European League that should count? It's not like Chelsea had an easy route and then final.
I do agree with you guys for not putting Chelsea in the poll position(1st) How come on earth that a team which won the European most competitive league fell into the sixth position and put the new faces for this competition in Man city football club? Which criteria did so called UEFA use to select clubs then chooses which club should be ranked first and why?
Why is ManU aheady of ManCity? Why is Juve so low (and they drop after winning the championship?) and AC Milan so high? This is nonsense...................
Tends to be lies city up there. Gor buying a leauge. Spurs should be a head of them. More cl time results agenst better teams. Chelsea winin cl means nothing but barca wining the tea cup dose. I am a utd fan and not sure they should be in top 3
How trophy less and only one trophy won clubs be the top 5. Really this is biased ranking, The double winners are NO. 1 Chelsea won two trophies they must be favorite for the leading UEFA ranking.
when is everybody going to realise, UEFA DID NOT MAKE THIS and to the people saying Manchester United shouldn't be third, what has Manchester City won in the past 20 years. This isn't biased to the top 5, they have all been the most successful over the 20 year period (apart from city hwho have only risen to fame since Scheik Mansour took over)
Rubbish!!!!
If they deducted points for every £ in the red West Brom might have placed top 10!!!!!! (hahaha scarey vision) and Man city would be placed outside top 1 million :0. The FIA fckd Formula One with the spending cap and it looks like fifa wanna do the same to football
Pliz can we form a commision of enquiry about the index. Man City just rose this year and the index is giving more weight to English Premier L than Champions L. Remember Man U got Champions L from Chelsea. Man U went out of Champions L and never clinched any cup. Please revisit the statistics and give us true results. Chain
City are 4th lol how can that be when they have only won 2 trophys since the Premier League started, they should really be around 20th, what a joke this index is.
Someone needs to be taught statistics and dat is UEFA, how on earth did man city beat Chelsea to the top 5. seriously!!
man u should not be 3rd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they should be last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the most stupid rating..if u look at the past 8 seasons even if u give importance to the current season city will never ever overtake chelsea...
YES FINALLY REAL ARE ON TOP OF EUROPE (they've always been :P)
Get the French in our group to hang out their washing on The Ziegfrieg Line - or get another Maginot Line built and we can go around it.
Dippers 'progressed' up the rankings I see ... PMSL very very hard!!!!
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