Extra Champions League spot: How club coefficients are calculated and current ranking
Cyprus and Denmark are currently leading UEFA’s season association coefficients ranking, which will grant two extra Champions League spots at the end of the season.
A new European season has started, and every country will be hoping for positive results from their clubs to get two extra spots in the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League.
Italy and Germany won the extra spots in 2024-25, while last season it was England and Spain’s turn.
UEFA has explained how the club coefficients are calculated.
The season coefficient of an association is calculated by adding up the points obtained by all its clubs in a given season of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League and then dividing the total by the number of clubs from that association that took part in the three UEFA club competitions in question.
Points are awarded as follows:
a. 2 points for a win (1 point for qualifying and play-off matches);
b. 1 point for a draw (0.5 points for qualifying and play-off matches);
c. 0 points for a defeat.
Clubs that reach the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals or final are awarded 1.5 extra points for each such round in the UEFA Champions League, one extra point for each such round in the UEFA Europa League, and 0.5 extra points for each such round in the UEFA Conference League.
These bonus points are also included in the association coefficient calculation.
D.7 Calculation principles
Match points are awarded based on the final scores ratified by UEFA. Penalty shoot-outs do not count.
Coefficients are calculated to the thousandth and not rounded up.
If competition rounds are changed and matches are played as single-leg instead of two-legged ties, the points awarded are adapted as follows:
a. 3 points for a win in regular time or extra time (1.5 points for qualifying and play-off matches);
b. 2 points for a draw in extra time (1 point for qualifying and play-off matches);
c. 1 point for a defeat in regular time or extra time (0.5 points for qualifying and play-off matches).
This does not apply to the final of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League or UEFA Conference League.
D.8 Equal coefficients
If two or more associations are ranked equally, the following criteria are applied, in this order, to determine their final rankings:
• their coefficients in the most recent of the seasons on which the rankings are based;
• their coefficients in the next most recent season in which they are not equal.
Current UEFA association club coefficient
- Cyprus 5.750 (3/4)
- Denmark 5.625 (2/4)
- Portugal 5.200 (4/5)
- England 5.055 (9/9)
- Belgium 4.900 (3/5)
- Poland 4.875 (4/4)
- Spain 4.500 (8/8)
- Germany 4.428 (7/7)
- Azerbaijan 4.375 (1/4)
- Italy 4.142 (7/7)