Club Coefficient
The club coefficient rankings are determined by the results of clubs in the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League over the previous five seasons, as well as by the coefficient of the clubs' association. The club coefficient is the sum of the points earned by the club over the five seasons plus 20% of the club's association coefficient.
The clubs receive two points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a defeat in games of the main stage of the Champions League and the Europa League (group stage). Qualifying round results are only taken into account if the team is eliminated in one of the rounds (see table below). Otherwise, the qualifying round results are taken into account only for the calculation of the association's coefficient and are halved. The clubs do not receive any points for elimination in the Champions League third qualifying round or the play-off because those teams move to the Europa League and receive points from participation in that competition. In addition, results of penalty shoot-outs do not affect club coefficients.
| Round | Points awarded | |
|---|---|---|
| Champions League | Europa League | |
| First qualifying round elimination | 0.5 | 0.25 |
| Second qualifying round elimination | 1 | 0.5 |
| Third qualifying round elimination | – | 1 |
| Play-off elimination | – | 1.5 |
| Group stage participation | 4 | 2 |
| Group stage win | 2 | 2 |
| Group stage draw | 1 | 1 |
| Round of 16 participation | 5 | – |
| Quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals participation | 1 | 1 |
This ranking is used by UEFA to determine a club's seeding in club competition draws, including the preliminary and first rounds of the Champions League, and the preliminary, first and second rounds of the Europa League.
Before 1999 a number of strong teams in the UEFA Cup were seeded such that those teams did not meet in the first two rounds. To determine these teams, the sum of, the ratio of the number of points achieved to the number of games played by each team, was calculated for the past five years.
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