Champions League 2016/17: How does the UEFA Coefficient work? All you need to know

• The national team coefficient ranks national teams and impacts on seedings for international qualifying and tournaments.
• The country coefficient ranks member associations on the basis of their collective performance their teams – this impacts on the number of teams each association can enter in the Champions League and Europa League and at what stage of those competitions those teams enter.
• The club coefficient ranks individual clubs and impacts on things like each club’s seeding in European competition.

HOW ARE THE COEFFICIENTS CALCULATED?

Country coefficient

• The coefficient is calculated over a five-year period

• Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. However, points are halved for wins and draws accrued in qualifying or play-off rounds

• The number of points awarded each season is then divided by the number of teams that competed in Europe that season from said association

• The resulting figure is then rounded down to three decimal places

• An association’s coefficient is produced by adding the last five seasons coefficients together, before adding any bonus points at the end.

• Bonus points are awarded for the following:

• If two associations have the same coefficient, the association with the higher coefficient in the most recent season is given preference

• The coefficient determines the number of teams competing European in the season after the next - so 2014/15 is in play for this season

Club coefficient