{"id":682066,"date":"2026-06-03T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:35:12","slug":"uefa-rankings-real-madrid-lose-top-spot-to-bayern-arsenal-seventh-man-united-out-of-top-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682066\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA rankings: Real Madrid lose top spot to Bayern, Arsenal seventh, Man United out of top 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bayern Munich have leapfrogged Real Madrid to become UEFA\u2019s top-ranked club ahead of the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n

UEFA, the governing body of European football, has calculated the annual club standings<\/a> \u2014 which influence seedings in draws for its club competitions \u2014 for the next campaign.<\/p>\n

Rankings are determined using a point-based system over a rolling five-year period, with points based on the club\u2019s performances in continental competitions and measured using a weighted algorithm.<\/p>\n

The rankings for 2026-27 are based on accumulated coefficient in European competition from 2021-22 onwards.<\/p>\n

A club\u2019s five-season coefficient is determined by either the cumulative sum of its points in the five-year period or by 20 per cent of its association\u2019s coefficient over the same period, whichever tally is higher.<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/p>\n

\n Harry Kane scored 61 goals for Bayern this season, including 14 in Europe (Christian Kaspar-Bartke \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Why are Bayern top?<\/p>\n

Madrid have lost top spot despite winning two Champions League trophies, in 2021-22 and 2023-24, during this timeframe \u2014 while Bayern have not reached the final of Europe\u2019s premier club competition in the same period.<\/p>\n

The German club have, however, reached the quarter-final or better in each of those five seasons with one of its two semi-final appearances coming this year.<\/p>\n

Bayern defeated Madrid in each leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie this year, which the German side won 6-4 on aggregate.<\/p>\n

Madrid have been eliminated at the quarter-final stage for successive seasons, and have required the knockout play-off phase on each occasion having missed out on top-eight slots in the league phase of the Champions League.<\/p>\n

Bayern finished second in the 2025-26 table, seven places and six points ahead of Madrid.<\/p>\n

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Who were the other big movers?<\/p>\n

Paris Saint-Germain are up two places to third after securing their second successive Champions League victory, with a final victory over Arsenal \u2014 Mikel Arteta\u2019s side, who recorded the highest cumulative coefficient points for 2025-26, are up five places to seventh.<\/p>\n

PSG not being top, having also reached the semi-final stage in 2023-24, is partly explained by having also missed out the top-eight of the Champions League initial phase table in each of its two campaigns since the competition\u2019s reformat.<\/p>\n

Liverpool remain fourth in the overall standings, having been eliminated by PSG for a second successive year, with Manchester City down four places to sixth after successive last-16 defeats.<\/p>\n

Inter (fifth), Barcelona (eighth), Bayer Leverkusen (ninth) and Atletico Madrid (10th) complete the top 10, with Aston Villa the biggest movers \u2014 up 29 places to 17th.<\/p>\n

Chelsea have dropped five places to 12th after their last-16 Champions League loss to PSG, while Manchester United have slipped from 11th to 21st after a season without any continental involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich have leapfrogged Real Madrid to become UEFA\u2019s top-ranked club ahead of the 2026-27 season. UEFA, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[463,13931,4897,9872,10535,464,2641,171232,24371,9524,3450,4896,3788,1088,4898,34640,403,99,4899],"class_list":["post-682066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-arsenal","tag-aston-villa","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bundesliga","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea","tag-europa-league","tag-fc-internazionale-milano","tag-la-liga","tag-ligue-1","tag-liverpool","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-real-madrid","tag-serie-a","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}