UEFA coefficients: France is approaching the peaks … and its record! – Maxifoot

At the end of this European week, France moved closer to first place in the UEFA coefficients for the current season. French clubs could beat a record in this 2021-2022 fiscal year!

It’s still a great European week which is coming to an end for the French clubs. In addition to the positive results for the UEFA coefficient (3 wins and 2 draws), France recorded two new qualifications for the following round, ie a 6 out of 6 for the teams in France!

Indeed, Lille brilliantly finished 1st in its group by beating Wolfsburg (3-1) and joined Paris Saint-Germain, already qualified before their victory against Bruges (4-1), in the round of 16 of the Champions League. For its part, Marseille will not accompany Lyon (1-1 against Rangers) and Monaco (1-1 against Sturm Graz) in the Europa League, but the club phocen has done the necessary against Lokomotiv Moscow (1-0) to being setback in the Europa League Conference, where Rennes is already qualified before playing their last match against Tottenham (postponed due to numerous cases of Covid-19 at Spurs).

France on the way to its record?

As a result, France now has 14,083 points in the UEFA coefficient rankings for this 2021-2022 season (the differences with the official UEFA website are explained by the fact that it has not yet counted the qualifying bonuses. ). Thus, France is still 3rd place in the current season but is getting closer to its two competitors in front. It is now behind the Netherlands (14,200 points) and England (14,142 points). At this rate, the record for the 2009-2010 season (15 points) can be broken!

In the ranking of UEFA coefficients over the 2017-2022 period, the reference period for the allocation of European places, France (55.748 points) remains in 5th place and continues to widen the gap (+ 0.500 points this week) with Portugal (50.049 points). As a reminder, if France remains 5th in the ranking by 2023, it will obtain four tickets (3 + 1), against three currently (2 + 1), for the new formula of the Champions League from the 2024 edition – 2025.

Keep the Netherlands at bay

But Portugal may not be the main threat to France in the near future. Septimes, the Netherlands are 11.448 points behind, but they will erase a deficit of 8.600 points at the start of next season since their 2017-2018 season totally missed (2,900 points) will no longer be taken into account in the next period 2018-2023. . Hence the importance for the French clubs to continue their good results in view of the current form of the Dutch teams (5 qualified out of 5 participants).

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