The new UEFA ranking rewards Real Madrid and humiliates the 'almighty' Barça

PSG's victory in the 24/25 Champions League final against Inter Milan has significantly altered the records of the best clubs in Europe this season. The most reliable ranking to recognize this metric is provided by UEFA through meticulously calculated coefficients that are updated at the end of each sports campaign in the Old Continent.

With Luis Enrique's pupils as Champions League winners, their total points have increased considerably. This increase in their coefficient allows them to leave behind the lower positions of the top 10 of European clubs according to UEFA, placing themselves in a more than respectable fifth place right now. Real Madrid, despite this change, remains unshaken at the very top of the list.

The victory in the 23/24 Champions League marked the end of the particular "battle" that the Madridist entity and Manchester City had been waging for several seasons to achieve that spot. The sky blue entity, surpassed by Real Madrid by a more than reasonable margin, occupies second place, with Bayern Munich completing the podium as the historic third.

Indeed, the Bavarian entity hasn't seen its "bronze medal" position changed in the latest updates of the ranking of the best teams according to UEFA's coefficients. Fourth place is reserved for Liverpool, which wants to rejoin the continental soccer elite after its brief experience in the Europa League in previous seasons.

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Fifth place is occupied by the brand-new Champions League champion: PSG. Luis Enrique's pupils comfortably surpass Inter Milan, whom they defeated in the Munich final, Chelsea, Borussia Dortmund, and AS Roma. The giallorossi squad, despite their notable absences from the Champions League in recent seasons, remains in ninth place due to their successes in the Europa League and Conference League.

The last spot in the top 10 of the best teams in Europe according to UEFA belongs to FC Barcelona. Despite the strong campaign by Hansi Flick's pupils, who had a chance to reach the final until the second leg of the semifinals, they haven't improved their records. In fact, this continental season has made them drop several positions, considering their comfortable fourth and fifth places in previous rankings.

This dose of reality provided by the list of the ten best teams in Europe, compiled by UEFA, is a reminder of how difficult it is to win a Champions League. That's why every European title won by Real Madrid throughout its history is tremendously valued by almost the entire soccer world... especially when clubs manage to win their first European trophy in history, as PSG recently did.

Meanwhile, FC Barcelona continues to pay the extremely high price of its ominous decade in continental competitions. In addition to their eliminations in the Champions League, they also went through the Europa League during the 21/22 and 22/23 seasons, a record that is undoubtedly decisive in placing them in tenth place.