In The Champions League, The Final Preliminary Rounds Start on Tuesday Evening. Without Feyenoord, But With Benfica and Club Brugge. How is the battle between the Netherlands, Portugal, and Belgium Going on the Coefficient Ranking? And is it beneficial that feyenoord descends to the Europa League?
In The First Weeks of the Season, The Damage for the Netherlands Has Been Limited on the Coefficient Ranking, Despite Feyenoord’s Elimination Against Fenerbahçe in the Preliminary Rounds of the Champions League.
Because PSV and Ajax Are Already Assured of Participation in The Most Important European Club Tournament, The Netherlands Has So Far Earned More Points Than Pursuers Portugal and Belgium.
But the season is still lung. Benfica and Club Brugge Can Already Do Their Country A Good Service In The Coming Two Week IF They Reach the Champions League at the Expense of Fenerbahçe and Rangers FC. For Feyenoord, that Chance is Already Lost.
Is that actual good or bad for the Netherlands and the coefficient ranking? Because Maybe Feyenoord Will Win More Matches in the Europa League and Get Further In The Tournament, Earning More Points for the Netherlands. To Answer that Question, we must first explain the uefa’s scoring system. The Bonus Points, in particular, Are Important in this context.
How does the coefficient ranking work?
Clubs earn points for their country for each good results in Europe. In The Three Main Tournaments, that is two points per Victory and one point per day, in the preliminary rounds it is half. The Further The Clubs Get, The More Bonus Points They Can also Earn.
The points earned per season are divided by the number of European participants per country. The Netherlands Has Six Clubs Active in Europe This Season. The Coefficient Score of the Netherlands is Therefore the Number of Points that PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles, FC Utrecht, and AZ Earn in Europe, Divided by Six.
The Coefficient Ranking is Drawn Up by the Total Coefficient Scores of the Last Five Seasons, Currently Therefore The Seasons 2021/2022 to 2025/2026.
Champions League Bonuses Make the Difference
Since Last Season, the European Competitions Have Been Reorganized. As a result, The Uefa’s Bonus Points System Has also Changed. In The Champions League, All 36 Clubs Receive A Bonus of At Least Six Points, Even Before They Start The League Phase.
For the Final Numbers 25 to 36, it also Remains at Those Six Bonus Points. But the Numbers 1 to 24 Get an Extra High Bonus, Ranging from 12,000 points for number 1 to 6,250 points for number 24.
In The Europa League and Conference League, The Bonuses Are a Lot Lower. Moreover, Only the Numbers 1 to 24 are entitled to this here. Furthermore, Extra Bonus Points Can Be Earned in All Three Tournament for Each Survived Knockout Round.
Last Season, PSV and Feyenoord Finished in FourteENTH and NineteENTH Place Respectively in The Champions League League Phase. That was good for a bonus or 8,750 and 7,500 points for the Netherlands. For Both Clubs, An Additional 1,500 Bonus Points Were Added, After They Eliminated Juventus and AC Milan in the Intermediate Round.
For Comparon: Chelsea Finished First in the League Phase of the Conference League Last Season and Any Vally Won The Tournament. But all this yielded a bonus of only 6,000 points, Lower than PSV and Feyenoord in The Champions League.
Score Dutch Clubs 2024/2025
PSV (Eighth Final Champions League, Place 14 in League Phase): 23,250 points, or which 10,250 Bonus Points. Coefficient: 3,875
Feyenoord (Eighth Final Champions League, Place 19 in League Phase): 21,000 points, or which 9,000 bonus points. Coefficient: 3,500
Ajax (Eighth Final Europa League, Place 12 in League Phase): 20,250 points, or which 4,250 Bonus Points. Coefficient: 3,375
AZ (Eighth Final Europa League, Place 19 in League Phase): 15,500 points, or which 2,500 bonus points. Coefficient: 2,583
FC Twente (Intermediate Round Europa League, Place 23 in League Phase): 11,000 points, or which 0,500 bonus points. Coefficient: 1.833
Go Ahead Eagles (Preliminary Round Conference League): 0.500 points, or which 0 bonus points. Coefficient: 0.083
TOTAL: 91,500 points, or which 26,500 bonus points. Coefficient: 15,250
Belgium and Portugal Are Lurking
Back to this season: Portugal and Belgium so far only have sporting CP and Union Saint-Gilloise in the Main Tournament of the Champions League. But they can still be Joined by Benfica and Club Brugge. In that case, they also get a meaning champions League bonus, Allowing Portugal and Belgium to Catch up on the Coefficient Ranking.
That is not such a problem now, because the Netherlands has a firm grip on sixth place. But next season the points from the 2021/2022 Season Will expire, Causing the Netherlands to Lose a Lot of Ground on the Two Trailing Countries in One Fell Swoop. The Netherlands Threatens to Drop from Sixth to Eighth Place in A Year. As a result, the Eredivisie Could Lose One Direct Champions League ticket in the Long Term.
With a view to that battle with Belgium and Portugal: Is it better for the Netherlands that feyenoord did not reach the main tournament of the champions league? Simply Put: It Depends On How Far Feyenoord Gets in the Europa League. The fact that feyenoord may win more matches than in the Champions League is only one side of the story.
Because if feyenoord wags to earn as a many bonus points as last season, it must at least reach the semi-finals of the Europa League. And of course, good results from rangers and fenerbahçe against club brugge and benfica would also be welcome.