AFC club competitions ranking
The AFC club competitions ranking is a ranking system launched by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in 2014.[1][2][3]
Calculation principle[edit]
The club competitions ranking (former member association ranking, or MA ranking) is used to rank associations and seed teams in the competitions, allocate the number of entries and entry points to the competitions.[4][5] There are, however, many shifts each year with associations not meeting off field requirements.
The ranking until 2021 consisted of the total points of member associations' clubs over the past four years. The leading association is always made 100 points in percentage terms. All other associations are adjusted proportionally to the leading team. From the 2022 edition, the ranking used the points over the past eight years, with the former ones have lower multiplier (each year before has its multiplier decrease by 0.1).
Structure[edit]
Club ranking was introduced in 2014 by the AFC.[6] It was an informative ranking and not used to seed clubs in the club competitions.[7] The AFC announced changes in the format for ranking the three new competitions (AFC Champions League Elite, AFC Champions League Two, AFC Challenge League) effective from the 2024–25 season.[8] The structure has taken into account the results from the past 8 years, with a weighting formula.[9]
Ranking[edit]
Most notable seasons for entry requirements into the 2024–25 AFC competitions.
| Ranking | Member association (L: League, C: Cup, LC: League cup) |
Club points | Total | 2024–25 competitions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022[9] | 2021 | Mvmt | Region | 2014 (×0.3) |
2015 (×0.4) |
2016 (×0.5) |
2017 (×0.6) |
2018 (×0.7) |
2019 (×0.8) |
2021 (×0.9) |
2022 (×1.0) |
ACL Elite | ACL Two | Challenge League | ||
| 1 | 1 |  — |
W 1 |  Saudi Arabia (L, C)
|
19.250 | 15.250 | 9.500 | 18.600 | 10.000 | 26.350 | 20.950 | 19.075 | 93.795 | 3+0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 2 | 3 |  +1 |
E 1 |  Japan (L, C, LC)
|
13.500 | 15.250 | 10.500 | 21.850 | 13.850 | 21.800 | 17.875 | 20.088 | 91.821 | 3+0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 3 | 2 |  -1 |
E 2 |  South Korea (L, C)
|
17.500 | 16.750 | 20.750 | 9.950 | 18.350 | 13.600 | 22.750 | 15.800 | 88.295 | 2+1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 4 | 5 | +1 |
W 2 |  Qatar (L, C)
|
8.750 | 19.000 | 22.000 | 13.400 | 19.850 | 15.900 | 7.300 | 13.500 | 75.950 | 2+1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 5 | 4 | -1 |
W 3 |  Iran (L, C)
|
9.500 | 11.250 | 13.000 | 16.200 | 18.850 | 11.500 | 14.225 | 13.250 | 72.018 | 2+1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 6 | 8 | +2 |
W 4 |  United Arab Emirates (L, C)
|
18.333 | 25.000 | 18.000 | 11.350 | 8.100 | 7.633 | 14.400 | 8.083 | 64.129 | 1+1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 7 | 7 | — |
E 3 |  China (L, C)
|
9.250 | 15.750 | 14.750 | 24.567 | 16.200 | 17.350 | 0.800 | 0.500 | 57.630 | 2+1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 8 | 9 | +1 |
E 4 |  Thailand (L, C, LC)
|
6.000 | 10.000 | 1.000 | 15.050 | 16.200 | 5.050 | 8.500 | 11.110 | 49.470 | 1+1 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 9 | 6 | -3 |
W 5 |  Uzbekistan (L, C)
|
11.000 | 4.750 | 9.750 | 5.050 | 9.400 | 9.000 | 8.960 | 10.057 | 45.006 | 1+0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 10 | 13 | +3 |
W 6 |  Iraq (L, C)
|
7.667 | 3.167 | 9.833 | 8.933 | 8.633 | 8.300 | 3.250 | 7.450 | 36.901 | 1+0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 11 | 23 | +12 |
E 5 |  Australia (L, C)
|
17.333 | 7.500 | 14.500 | 5.900 | 7.300 | 2.600 | 0.000 | 7.900 | 33.830 | 1+0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 12 | 10 | -2 |
W 7 |  Jordan (L, C)
|
3.833 | 4.667 | 4.167 | 4.900 | 7.633 | 7.967 | 4.893 | 6.000 | 30.161 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 13 | 20 | +7 |
E 6 |  Malaysia (L, C)
|
1.833 | 9.500 | 7.167 | 4.395 | 3.633 | 4.450 | 4.000 | 9.677 | 29.951 | 1+0 | 1+0 | 0 |
| 14 | 14 | — |
E 7 |  Vietnam (L, C)
|
8.667 | 4.000 | 4.000 | 2.800 | 3.267 | 10.752 | 6.000 | 5.300 | 29.469 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 15 | 11 | -4 |
E 8 |  Hong Kong (L, C, S, LC)
|
6.000 | 8.167 | 5.833 | 1.750 | 3.300 | 3.650 | 7.333 | 6.587 | 27.450 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 16 | 12 | -4 |
W 8 |  Tajikistan (L, C)
|
0.000 | 9.000 | 0.333 | 12.900 | 4.433 | 3.000 | 4.970 | 2.493 | 23.976 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 17 | 17 | — |
W 9 |  India (L, C)
|
3.167 | 3.333 | 7.667 | 6.250 | 4.417 | 3.217 | 3.677 | 4.797 | 23.639 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 18 | 25 | +7 |
W 10 |  Bahrain (L, C)
|
5.833 | 2.167 | 5.333 | 3.467 | 1.633 | 2.500 | 5.510 | 5.215 | 20.681 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 19 | 22 | +3 |
W 11 |  Kuwait (L, C)
|
10.000 | 9.500 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 3.433 | 7.070 | 4.160 | 20.069 | 0 | 0+1 | 1+0 |
| 20 | 16 | -4 |
W 12 |  Turkmenistan (L, C)
|
0.000 | 2.000 | 2.000 | 4.483 | 7.583 | 5.267 | 3.125 | 2.640 | 19.464 | 0 | 0+1 | 1+0 |
| 21 | 19 | -2 |
E 9 |  Philippines (L, C)
|
0.000 | 1.667 | 4.667 | 8.120 | 5.843 | 4.782 | 2.600 | 0.300 | 18.428 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 22 | 18 | -4 |
W 13 |  Lebanon (L, C)
|
5.333 | 0.667 | 6.333 | 0.833 | 3.933 | 6.933 | 2.670 | 1.525 | 17.761 | 0 | 0 | 1+0 |
| 23 | 27 | +4 |
W 14 |  Syria (L, C)
|
0.833 | 6.833 | 5.333 | 5.933 | 2.000 | 3.133 | 1.785 | 2.890 | 17.612 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 24 | 24 | — |
E 10 |  Singapore (L, C)
|
2.667 | 0.500 | 4.500 | 5.138 | 5.617 | 4.133 | 0.000 | 3.253 | 16.824 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 |
| 25 | 15 | -10 |
E 11 |  North Korea (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 3.433 | 7.433 | 11.067 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 16.117 | 0 | 0+1 | 0+1 |
| 26 | 26 | — |
E 12 |  Indonesia (L, C)
|
6.500 | 5.667 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 4.100 | 5.045 | 0.000 | 3.960 | 15.083 | 0 | 0+1 | 0+1 |
| 27 | 21 | -6 |
W 15 |  Bangladesh (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 | 1.333 | 1.433 | 6.933 | 2.790 | 3.760 | 14.120 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 28 | 34 | +6 |
W 16 |  Oman (L, C)
|
2.167 | 2.333 | 1.000 | 2.200 | 1.583 | 1.433 | 0.000 | 6.795 | 12.453 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 29 | 29 | — |
W 17 |  Maldives (L, C)
|
0.667 | 2.000 | 1.333 | 4.300 | 4.300 | 0.000 | 0.200 | 2.030 | 9.467 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 30 | 28 | -2 |
E 13 |  Myanmar (L, C)
|
3.833 | 2.667 | 2.333 | 1.300 | 4.062 | 1.600 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 8.287 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 31 | 31 | — |
W 18 |  Palestine (L, C)
|
0.000 | 2.000 | 2.000 | 0.200 | 0.150 | 2.967 | 0.835 | 0.610 | 5.760 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 32 | 33 | +1 |
E 14 |  Cambodia (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.683 | 2.250 | 1.000 | 0.000 | 2.070 | 5.455 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 33 | 32 | -1 |
W 19 |  Kyrgyzstan (L)
|
0.333 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.400 | 0.150 | 2.433 | 0.835 | 0.565 | 4.308 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 34 | 30 | -4 |
E 15 |  Macau (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 4.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 2.800 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 35 | 35 | +4 |
E 16 |  Chinese Taipei (L)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.333 | 2.000 | 0.000 | 2.066 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 36 | 37 | +1 |
E 17 |  Laos (L, C)
|
0.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.150 | 0.150 | 0.333 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.361 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 37 | 36 | -1 |
W 20 |  Nepal (L)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.667 | 0.200 | 0.100 | 0.814 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 38 | 38 | — |
W 21 |  Sri Lanka (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.100 | 0.000 | 0.350 | 0.100 | 0.200 | 0.630 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 39 | 39 | — |
W 22 |  Bhutan (L, C, LC)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.150 | 0.150 | 0.100 | 0.100 | 0.100 | 0.465 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 40 | 40 | — |
E 18 |  Mongolia (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.100 | 0.100 | 0.000 | 0.100 | 0.250 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 41 | 41 | — |
W 23 |  Afghanistan (L)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.150 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.090 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 42 | 41 | -1 |
E 19 |  Brunei (C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 42 | 41 | -1 |
E 19 |  Guam (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 42 | 41 | -1 |
E 19 |  Northern Mariana Islands (L)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 42 | 41 | -1 |
W 24 |  Pakistan (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 42 | 41 | -1 |
E 19 |  Timor-Leste (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
| 42 | 41 | -1 |
W 24 |  Yemen (L, C)
|
0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 |
See also[edit]
- UEFA coefficient, a similar system used by UEFA
- CAF 5-year ranking, a similar system used by the Confederation of African Football
- CONMEBOL ranking of the Copa Libertadores, a similar system used by CONMEBOL (clubs only)
References[edit]
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- ^ "AFC Competitions Committee recommends new AFC Cup format". Archived from the original on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 23 November 2018.
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