Extra Champions League spot: How club coefficients are calculated and current ranking | OneFootball

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.

epa12147516 UEFA Champions League trophy on display at the Allianz Arena before the UEFA Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Internazionale Milano in Munich, Germany 31 May 2025. EPA-EFE/RONALD WITTEK

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.

MILAN, ITALY – MARCH 11: The UEFA Champions League trophy is cleaned as it is displayed on a plinth at the side of the pitch prior to the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Round of 16 Second Leg match between FC Internazionale Milano and Feyenoord at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on March 11, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

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

epa08301242 (FILE) – The Champions League trophy on display during the draw of the first two qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League 2015/16 at the UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, 22 June 2015 (re-issued 17 March 2020). The UEFA released on 17 March 2020 saying ‘All UEFA competitions and matches (including friendlies) for clubs and national teams for both men and women have been put on hold until further notice’. The UEFA EURO 2020 has been postponed to 2021 amid the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. EPA-EFE/VALENTIN FLAURAUD