The AFC Club Competitions Ranking is a ranking system launched by the
AFC
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in 2014.
The ranking is based on the results of teams participating in the last four years of the
AFC Champions League
The AFC Champions League (abbreviated as ACL) is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation, and contested by Asia's top-division football clubs. It is the most prestigious club competition ...
and the
AFC Cup
The AFC Cup is an annual continental club football competition organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Under its current rules, the competition is played primarily between clubs from nations that did not receive direct qualifying ...
. The ranking is used for determine slot allocation in AFC club competitions.
Calculation principle
The Club Competitions Ranking (former Member Association Ranking, or MA ranking) is used to rank associations and also used for seeding teams in the competitions. It is also used to allocate the number of entries and entry points to the competitions. There are however many shifts each year with associations not meeting off field requirements.
Each team is awarded points based on their performance in AFC club competitions. Points of a country in a season consists of two parts. First is the points earned in group and knockout stages. The total of points earned by all clubs from the country will be divided by the number of participating clubs in that tournament (points from AFC Champions League teams and AFC Cup teams are counted and averaged separately, then added to each other). The second one is the points from qualifying stages. Points earned by all clubs from the country are added up. The sum of those two parts will be the country's points for the season.
The ranking consists of the total of points of member association's clubs over the past four year. The points of the leading team are made 100 points in percentage terms. All other associations are adjusted proportionally to the leading team.
Sourc
AFC
2021 ranking
To be used for allocating slots in the 2023–24 season, which is relevant for use in determining allocations for the following cycle of the AFC Champions League and AFC Cup.
Updated on 7 December 2021.
(Source)
2022 ranking
To be used for allocating slots in the 2024–25 season.
Updated on 22 October 2022.
(Source)
Club ranking
A club ranking was introduced in 2014 by the AFC. It was an informative ranking and not used to seed clubs in the club competitions.
See also
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UEFA coefficient
In European football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics based in weighted arithmetic means used for ranking and seeding teams in club and international competitions. Introduced in 1979 for men's football tournaments, and after applied in w ...
, a similar system used by
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs fo ...
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CAF 5-Year Ranking
The CAF 5-Year Ranking system is used by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine the number of clubs that each member association may enter its club football competitions; the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. ...
, a similar system used by the
Confederation of African Football
The Confederation of African Football, or CAF for short (french: link=yes, Confédération Africaine de Football, ar, link=yes, الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam), is the administ ...
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CONMEBOL ranking of the Copa Libertadores, a similar system used by
CONMEBOL
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL, , or CSF; es, Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol; pt, Confederação Sul-Americana de Futebol) is the continental governing body of football in South America (apart from Guyana, Surina ...
(clubs only)
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References
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External links
Rankingat the-afc.com
Rankingsat FootyRankings
Association football rankings
Asian Football Confederation competitions