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1st Italy AC Milan 118.064 PTS 2nd Spain Barcelona 108.272 3rd Italy Inter Milan 100.064 4th England Arsenal 96.813 5th England Liverpool 95.813 6th Spain Real Madrid 95.272 7th Italy Juventus 91.064
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The rankings don't establish Milan as the best team in the world but as an average of how they have done in the past 5 years in Uefa competitions. Heres the fine print
"The UEFA team ranking is determined by the UEFA team coefficients in the last 5 years. The team ranking is used for the seeding of draws."
Fox Soccer Channels best teams as of October 26.
RANK CLUB PTS LAST 1 Manchester United (ENG) 235 8 2= Olympique Lyon (FRA) 232 4 2= Chelsea FC (ENG) 232 3 4 FC Barcelona (ESP) 214 1 5 CF Valencia (ESP) 190 14 6 Internazionale (ITA) 160 10 7 Arsenal FC (ENG) 156 5= 8 Werder Bremen (GER) 153 13 9 Bayern Munich (GER) 145 5= 10 Real Madrid (ESP) 122 12 11 US Palermo (ITA) 121 NR 12 Celtic Glasgow (SCO) 115 22 13 Boca Juniors (ARG) 103 15 14 FC Porto (POR) 99 19= 15 FC Sevilla (ESP) 96 24 16 PSV Eindhoven (HOL) 84 9 17= Ajax Amsterdam (HOL) 70 NR 17= AC Milan (ITA) 70 7 19 AS Roma (ITA) 66 25 20 CSKA Moscow (RUS) 62 NR 21 Sao Paulo (BRA) 61 23 22 Sporting Lisbon (POR) 57 NR 23 River Plate (ARG) 53 NR 24 Internacional (BRA) 49 NR 25 Olympique Marseille (FRA) 45 NR The next ten clubs were: Toluca (MEX) Bolton (ENG) D.C. United (USA) Schalke 04 (GER) Liverpool FC (ENG) Olympiakos (GRE) AS Nancy (FRA) OSC Lille (FRA) Atletico Madrid (ESP) Juventus (ITA)
This post has been edited by jbryant1: Nov 6 2006, 10:12 AM