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Strongest football leagues in Europe 2026: who's overrated

Italy is second on UEFA's five-season coefficient, yet its Champions League clubs have taken just 13 points from 11 games this autumn, the worst of Europe's big five leagues.

  • No. 1: Primeira Liga
  • 10 places

01Final list

The leading AIs each built their own list of ten independently. Here is one result that is easy to check: every place has a reason, a source, and the list of AIs that included it.

Order: from most to least AI agreement.

A bright badge means this AI put the entry on its list. A dim badge means it did not.

  1. 1

    Primeira Liga

    Sixth on the coefficient and about 9th for Opta. Its clubs take 1.20 points a game in Europe, with Porto on 0 from 3, yet Portugal out-earned Italy last season.

    Included it: Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 10 · Nemotron: 8 · Claude: 2 · MiMo: 2 · DeepSeek: 4

    What each AI noted 5
    • Geminiplace 10

      Dominates both coefficient totals (105.130 pts) and model ratings (91.0) with an unmatched 4 clubs inside the top 8.

    • Nemotronplace 8

      Coefficient 6th, Opta 7th — the gap is small, but the 2024‑25 bonus points for SL Benfica’s CL semi‑final run pushed Portugal ahead of France in the coefficient, while Opta rates Ligue 1 slightly higher.

    • Claudeplace 2

      Sixth on the football-coefficient.eu table, but Opta puts it around 9th and its two Champions League clubs have 6 points from 5 games (Porto 0 from 3).

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    • MiMoplace 2

      Sixth on UEFA's five-season list, yet Portugal out-earned both Italy and France last season — 20.500 against 19.000 and 18.321.

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    • DeepSeekplace 4

      Portugal are 6th in the coefficient and 9th in Opta, but Porto's 0 points from three Champions League games make the club-level delivery look worse than the ranking.

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    5 AIs put it here
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  2. 2

    Eredivisie

    Seventh on UEFA's 2026 ranking (67.929) but 8th on the live table (54.229) after 2025-26 brought only 9.979 points, its worst in five seasons. Its clubs now take 1.40 a game.

    Included it: Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 7 · Nemotron: 9 · Claude: 5 · MiMo: 1 · DeepSeek: 3

    What each AI noted 5
    • Geminiplace 7

      Holds UEFA #8 (53.729 pts) with single-season performance fluctuating wildly between PSV's dominance and European exits.

    • Nemotronplace 9

      Coefficient 7th, Opta 6th — Feyenoord, PSV, Ajax give depth; the coefficient benefits from Europa Conference League wins (AZ, Twente), but Opta sees the top‑3 as slightly stronger than the coefficient suggests.

    • Claudeplace 5

      The order against Portugal depends on the window: sixth on the official 2025 ranking (67.150), eighth on the current football-coefficient.eu table (54.229).

    • MiMoplace 1

      Seventh on UEFA's five-season list and eighth live — after a 9.979 season that left the Netherlands behind Poland (15.750) and Greece (14.200).

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    • DeepSeekplace 3

      The Eredivisie are 8th in the coefficient but 22nd in Opta; PSV and Feyenoord have seven points from five Champions League matches.

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    5 AIs put it here
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  3. 3

    Belgian Pro League

    Seventh on the live table after passing the Netherlands, with one Champions League club: Club Brugge, 3 points from 2, including a 4-3 win at Inter.

    Included it: Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 3 · Nemotron: 2 · Claude: 7 · MiMo: 6 · DeepSeek: 7

    What each AI noted 5
    • Geminiplace 3

      Sitting high at UEFA #7 (60.850 pts) via volume points in lower cups despite no clubs in the Champions League top 20.

    • Nemotronplace 2

      Coefficient 8th, Opta 12th — Club Brugge and Anderlecht’s European points inflate the five‑year number, but the league’s depth has eroded.

    • Claudeplace 7

      Seventh on the coefficient and eighth on one Opta list, but only one Champions League club, Club Brugge, with 3 points from 2 games.

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    • MiMoplace 6

      Belgium has passed the Netherlands on the live table (61.050 v 54.229) — one week after Club Brugge won 4-3 at Inter.

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    • DeepSeekplace 7

      Belgium are 7th in the coefficient but 8th in Opta; Club Brugge's three points from two games are the only Champions League return.

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    5 AIs put it here
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  4. More about the top three ↓
  5. 4

    Serie A

    Second on the coefficient, but its clubs take 1.18 points a game in Europe, the lowest of the big five, and Italy is only 7th this season.

    Included it: Gemini, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Nemotron, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 1 · Claude: 1 · MiMo: 7 · DeepSeek: 5

    What each AI noted 4
    • Geminiplace 1

      Ranked #2 by UEFA's coefficient formula (89.446 pts) but demoted to #4 in pure club-strength models (85.3).

    • Claudeplace 1

      Second in the coefficient with 97.231 but the weakest of the big leagues in Europe this autumn: 13 points from 11 club-games (1.18 per game), with Inter at 0 from 2.

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    • MiMoplace 7

      Italy is second on UEFA's list and second in Opta's model — yet its 2025-26 haul (19.000) was only Europe's fifth-best.

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    • DeepSeekplace 5

      Italy are 2nd in the five-year coefficient but 7th in the current single-season table; Inter have 0 points and Napoli 3 from their first three Champions League games.

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    4 AIs put it here
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  6. 5

    Süper Lig

    Ninth on the coefficient, but Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe have 5 points from 6 games (0.83), the lowest return of any league with two Champions League clubs.

    Included it: Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, MiMo, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 5 · Nemotron: 1 · Claude: 3 · DeepSeek: 2

    What each AI noted 4
    • Geminiplace 5

      Rated #9 by UEFA (51.075 pts) but penalized in club models where bottom-tier domestic depth trails the top four.

    • Nemotronplace 1

      Ranked 9th in UEFA coefficient but 14th in Opta league strength — the gap is driven by Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe’s deep Europa League runs, while the rest of the league is weak.

    • Claudeplace 3

      Ninth on the coefficient list but the lowest result of any league in this table: 5 points from 6 club-games (0.83 per game) for Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe.

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    • DeepSeekplace 2

      Turkey sit 9th in the five-year coefficient but 25th in Opta; Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe have combined for just five points from six Champions League games.

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    4 AIs put it here
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  7. 6

    Greek Super League

    Tenth on the coefficient but 27th in Opta's world table (an estimate from one Greek report; another list says 30th). AEK Athens have 3 points from 3 games.

    Included it: Gemini, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Nemotron, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 4 · Claude: 9 · MiMo: 9 · DeepSeek: 1

    What each AI noted 4
    • Geminiplace 4

      Elevated into Europe's top 10 (45.812 pts) largely by historical Conference League runs rather than baseline league depth.

    • Claudeplace 9

      Tenth on the coefficient and one Champions League club, AEK Athens, on 3 points from 3 games, so its rank and results agree.

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    • MiMoplace 9

      Greece's best season in five years (14.200) lifted it to tenth live — the season AEK Athens returned to the Champions League after eight years away.

    • DeepSeekplace 1

      Greece are 10th in the five-year UEFA coefficient but only 27th in Opta's league strength — a 17-place gap, the widest in the top 15.

    4 AIs put it here
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  8. 7

    Bundesliga

    Rated too low: 4th on the coefficient but 3rd for Opta, and its clubs take 2.00 points a game in Europe (1.82 in a count that includes Leverkusen).

    Included it: Gemini, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Nemotron, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 2 · Claude: 4 · MiMo: 8 · DeepSeek: 10

    What each AI noted 4
    • Geminiplace 2

      Holds UEFA's #4 rank (82.830 pts) yet claims the #2 spot globally in Opta's statistical strength index (86.3).

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    • Claudeplace 4

      Fourth on the coefficient but second this autumn in Europe at 2.00 per game, with Opta placing it third.

      Source ↗
    • MiMoplace 8

      Germany is fourth by UEFA's coefficient and third in Opta's model — while Stuttgart sit 13th at home and unbeaten in Europe.

      Source ↗
    • DeepSeekplace 10

      Germany are 4th in the coefficient but 3rd in Opta; Stuttgart's 7 points and Dortmund's 6 make the Champions League return 1.82 per game.

      Source ↗
    4 AIs put it here
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  9. 8

    La Liga

    Third on the coefficient, yet its clubs average 2.08 points a game in Europe and out-earned Germany last season. Opta ranks Spain 2nd in one table and 4th in another.

    Included it: Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Nemotron, Claude, Wenxin.

    In their lists: Gemini: 8 · MiMo: 4 · DeepSeek: 9

    What each AI noted 3
    • Geminiplace 8

      Maintains an unshakeable UEFA #3 (84.743 pts) and Opta #3 (86.2) backed by 4 top-15 Champions League contenders.

    • MiMoplace 4

      UEFA has Spain third (97.046) and Opta's model fourth — yet Spain out-earned Germany last season 22.093 to 21.785.

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    • DeepSeekplace 9

      Spain are 3rd in the coefficient but 2nd in Opta, and their Champions League clubs average 2.08 points per game — the model says the coefficient slightly underrates them.

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    3 AIs put it here
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  10. 9

    Eliteserien (Norway)

    Thirteenth over five seasons but 5th in this season's coefficient, a jump of eight places. Viking drew 3-3 with Bayern, while Bodø/Glimt lost 5-0 in Munich.

    Included it: MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, Wenxin.

    In their lists: MiMo: 10 · DeepSeek: 8

    What each AI noted 2
    • MiMoplace 10

      Two Champions League clubs for the first time since 1999-2000 — and Viking held Bayern 3-3 while Bodø/Glimt lost 5-0 in Munich.

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    • DeepSeekplace 8

      Norway are 13th in the five-year coefficient but 5th in the current-season coefficient — an eight-place single-season surge; Bodø/Glimt and Viking have four points from five Champions League games.

    2 AIs put it here
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  11. 10

    Ekstraklasa (Poland)

    Twelfth over five seasons and no Champions League club, yet Polish clubs earned 15.750 points last season, more than Belgium (11.400) or the Netherlands (9.979). Only one source gives this.

    Included it: MiMo. Did not include: Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, DeepSeek, Wenxin.

    In their lists: MiMo: 5

    What each AI noted 1
    • MiMoplace 5

      Poland's clubs took 15.750 points last season — more than Belgium or the Netherlands — and Poland still has no Champions League club.

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    1 AIs put it here
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02More about the top three

The ranking is above. Here is more about the three places at the top: what they are, why they are here, and what is worth knowing.

The three are compared on different windows: the official 2026 ranking and the live five-season table differ, and the Opta ranks and points-per-game figures come from different samples.

1Primeira Liga

No. 1 — Primeira Liga. On the lists of 5 of 7 AIs; median place there: 4. Its sixth place on the coefficient looks better than its Opta rank, and its Champions League clubs, Porto especially, are earning few points.

Did you know

  • Only five clubs have ever won the Portuguese title. Besides Benfica, Porto and Sporting, the other two are Belenenses (1946) and Boavista (2001), even though more than 70 teams have played in the league.

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What it is
Portugal's top league, dominated by Benfica, Porto and Sporting.
Its edge
Highest coefficient of the three, with the best 2025-26 season at 20.500 points.
Who should know
Useful for fans who trust coefficient tables and want to see where the gap with results is.
  • UEFA coefficient vs results6th; 1.20 pts a game
  • Founded1934
  • HeadquartersPortugal

Wikipedia · Wikidata

Why it is here

  • Portugal's 2025-26 season brought 20.500 coefficient points, the most of the five seasons counted, up from 11.000 in 2023-24. That helps explain why it sits sixth on UEFA's ranking.

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  • Portugal's five-season total is 66.750, ahead of Belgium on 61.250 and the Netherlands on 54.229. The league ranks sixth on the coefficient, though the table gives only the totals.

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Did you know

  • In 1973 Benfica became the first club to finish a Portuguese league season unbeaten: 28 wins and 2 draws in 30 games. They repeated it in 1977-78 but still lost the title to Porto.

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History

  • In 2004 police wiretaps began the Apito Dourado ("Golden Whistle") case, which accused referees of taking bribes in Portuguese league matches. Boavista were later relegated to the second tier over it.

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Keep in mind

  • Only three clubs, Benfica, Porto and Sporting, have usually fought for the title. The page says that apart from 2023/24, each of the last twelve titles was decided by seven or fewer points. The rest of the league rarely joins in.

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2Eredivisie

No. 2 — Eredivisie. On the lists of 5 of 7 AIs; median place there: 5. Its coefficient rank depends on the window, and its worst season in five (9.979 points) pulled it down while Opta rates it lower.

Did you know

  • Ajax won the 1994-95 Eredivisie without losing once: 27 wins, 7 draws, 106 goals scored and 28 conceded. They are the first and so far only Dutch team to go a whole league season unbeaten.

    Source ↗ ✓ confirmed by several AIs
What it is
The Dutch top league, home of Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord.
Its edge
Clubs take 1.40 points a game in Europe, better than Portugal's 1.20.
Who should know
Useful for anyone who wants to see how one weak season can move a country down the table.
  • UEFA coefficient vs results7th official, 8th live
  • Founded1956
  • HeadquartersNetherlands

Wikipedia · Wikidata

Why it is here

  • The Netherlands earned 9.979 points in 2025-26, down from 15.250 in 2024-25. That is the lowest of the five counted seasons, and it drags the league down to eighth.

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  • The five-season total is 54.229, which puts the Netherlands eighth of 55 countries. The 2026-27 part, 5.500, is still provisional and can change.

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History

  • In April 2020 the Eredivisie was ended early because of COVID-19. Ajax and AZ Alkmaar were level on points with nine games left, and no champion was named.

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Keep in mind

  • Holland Times says Dutch clubs lost 61.5% of their main-stage European games last season. The Netherlands fell below Portugal in the coefficient, so the Eredivisie loses an automatic Champions League spot from 2027.

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Where to go further

  • Read the final table first and see how far the champion finished ahead of the others. Then check which clubs took the European places and which two went down. About ten minutes.

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MiMo put it first. What they saw in it

  • MiMo: Seventh on UEFA's five-season list and eighth live — after a 9.979 season that left the Netherlands behind Poland (15.750) and Greece (14.200).

Video: How Did Eredivisie Teams Get Their Names & Nicknames? · History With Hilbert

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3Belgian Pro League

No. 3 — Belgian Pro League. On the lists of 5 of 7 AIs; median place there: 6. Seventh on the coefficient, but Opta rates it lower and it has only one Champions League club, with just 3 points.

Icone du nouveau trophée du championnat de Belgique
PBrieux · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Did you know

  • In 2013-14 Anderlecht were eight points behind Standard after the first playoff round, yet still won the title. This is often called the most spectacular comeback in Belgian playoff history.

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What it is
Belgium's top league, with Club Brugge and Anderlecht as its best-known European clubs.
Its edge
Passed the Netherlands on the live table, and Brugge won 4-3 at Inter.
Who should know
Useful for fans who want to see how one club's results can hide a thin league.
  • UEFA coefficient vs results7th live table
  • Founded1895
  • HeadquartersBelgium

Wikipedia · Wikidata

Why it is here

  • Belgium's five-season total is 61.250, good for seventh. Its 2025-26 season gave 11.400 points, well below the 15.650 of 2024-25. Belgium sits between Portugal and the Netherlands.

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  • Club Brugge won 4-3 at Inter in the Champions League. Nicolo Tresoldi scored a hat-trick, and the win gave Belgium's lone club in the competition its first points of the season.

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Did you know

  • Belgium only introduced a title playoff in 2009-10. Anderlecht won that first one, clinching it with a 2-1 win away at Club Brugge, one of their main rivals.

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History

  • In 2025 Union Saint-Gilloise won the Belgian title for the first time since 1935, beating Gent 3-1 on the last matchday. The club had faded in the playoffs in 2022 and 2024 after leading the regular season.

    Source ↗
Keep in mind

  • One match preview warned that Belgian league form should not be carried straight over to the Champions League. Brugge had already lost 3-2 at home to Aston Villa, and the preview pointed to weak defending when caught in transition.

    Source ↗
Where to go further

  • Scroll to the league table and find Club Brugge and Union Saint-Gilloise. Notice how close the top spots were, then check which clubs earned Champions League places. Ten minutes is plenty.

    Source ↗

Video: Why The Belgian Pro League Is An Underrated Talent Factory! · Euro Football Daily

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The top three side by side

Primeira LigaEredivisieBelgian Pro League
In the AIs' lists5 / 75 / 75 / 7
UEFA coefficient vs results6th; 1.20 pts a game7th official, 8th live7th live table
Founded193419561895
HeadquartersPortugalNetherlandsBelgium
Put first by—MiMo—

Places with the same number of AIs are ordered by their average place in the AIs' own lists.

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03Worth knowing

What the AIs noticed while building the list.

A Champions League league-phase finish is worth 6 to 12 coefficient points before a single win, plus 1.5 per knockout round. That is how one deep run can carry a whole country.

Noticed by:
Included it: MiMo. Did not include: Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, DeepSeek, Wenxin.
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Opta asked in 2025 whether the 'Big Five' order based on UEFA's coefficient still holds.

Noticed by:
Included it: Claude. Did not include: Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, MiMo, DeepSeek, Wenxin.
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04Questions people ask

What is the strongest football league in Europe?

The Premier League. It is first on UEFA's 2026 country ranking with 119.519 points, about 20 ahead of Italy, and first in Opta's model with an average club rating of 92.6 to 93.1, depending on the edition.

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What is the strongest football team in Europe?

Opta's club ratings put Arsenal first on 100.0, ahead of Bayern Munich on 99.1. On the pitch, PSG lead the Champions League with 9 points and a +9 goal difference.

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What is the best football league in Europe?

The Premier League leads both the coefficient and the model. Its clubs also have the best Champions League average this autumn, 2.31 to 2.70 points a game depending on which matches are counted.

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Which is the toughest football league in Europe?

By depth, the Premier League: Opta says it is in a class of its own, and it ranks even England's second tier around 10th in the world. Rankings differ because UEFA counts only European results, while Opta rates every match.

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05How we counted

In plain words, no formulas.

1The question

Top 10 European football leagues rated higher or lower than their clubs actually deliver in Europe

2Why this topic

It answers a question people search for all year, which league is really the strongest, by setting a coefficient based only on European results against a model rating built from all matches, so readers can see which leagues are over- or under-rated.

3Where it applies

Men's top divisions of the 15 highest-ranked UEFA associations

4What we looked at

  • Gap between a league's UEFA country coefficient rank and its rank in a model-based league strength rating
  • Gap between a league's coefficient rank and its clubs' average results in the current Champions League season
  • Difference between a single-season and a five-season view of the same league
  • UEFA (uefa.com) — Country coefficient: points from clubs in all three European competitions over five seasons, with bonus points, divided by the number of clubs entered
  • kassiesa.net — Official 2026 country ranking with each season's points, 2021-22 to 2025-26
  • football-coefficient.eu — Live five-season table that includes 2026-27, and points for single seasons
  • Opta Analyst league strength — Average model rating of all clubs in a league, from every match. It is a world table that includes non-European leagues
  • Champions League 2026-27 by league (NBC table copy) — Points per club-game for each country's Champions League clubs. The sample is tiny: 2 or 3 games per club

5Who ranked

The leading AIs, each building its own list of ten independently and naming a source for every place: Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek, Wenxin.

6How the places were set

The same entry written differently by different AIs was counted as one. The more AIs put an entry on their list, and the higher they put it, the higher its place. "AI agreement" shows how many of the AIs had it on their own list. Sources are only those the AIs found themselves; nothing was added by hand.

06Each AI's own list

🇺🇸 Gemini10 places

The same question, answered by Gemini alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.

  1. 1
    Serie A (Italy)

    Ranked #2 by UEFA's coefficient formula (89.446 pts) but demoted to #4 in pure club-strength models (85.3).

  2. 2
    Bundesliga (Germany)

    Holds UEFA's #4 rank (82.830 pts) yet claims the #2 spot globally in Opta's statistical strength index (86.3).

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  3. 3
    Belgian Pro League (Belgium)

    Sitting high at UEFA #7 (60.850 pts) via volume points in lower cups despite no clubs in the Champions League top 20.

  4. 4
    Super League Greece (Greece)

    Elevated into Europe's top 10 (45.812 pts) largely by historical Conference League runs rather than baseline league depth.

  5. 5
    Süper Lig (Türkiye)

    Rated #9 by UEFA (51.075 pts) but penalized in club models where bottom-tier domestic depth trails the top four.

  6. 6
    Liga Portugal (Portugal)

    Preserves UEFA #6 (66.550 pts) driven by Sporting CP and Benfica despite a steep drop-off across mid-table clubs.

  7. 7
    Eredivisie (Netherlands)

    Holds UEFA #8 (53.729 pts) with single-season performance fluctuating wildly between PSV's dominance and European exits.

  8. 8
    La Liga (Spain)

    Maintains an unshakeable UEFA #3 (84.743 pts) and Opta #3 (86.2) backed by 4 top-15 Champions League contenders.

  9. 9
    Ligue 1 (France)

    Consistently locked at #5 in both UEFA (70.296 pts) and Opta (85.2) despite stark polarity between PSG and Lille.

  10. 10
    Premier League (England)

    Dominates both coefficient totals (105.130 pts) and model ratings (91.0) with an unmatched 4 clubs inside the top 8.

🇺🇸 Nemotron10 places · 1 notes

The same question, answered by Nemotron alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.

  1. 1
    Turkish Süper Lig (Turkey)

    Ranked 9th in UEFA coefficient but 14th in Opta league strength — the gap is driven by Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe’s deep Europa League runs, while the rest of the league is weak.

  2. 2
    Belgian Pro League (Belgium)

    Coefficient 8th, Opta 12th — Club Brugge and Anderlecht’s European points inflate the five‑year number, but the league’s depth has eroded.

  3. 3
    Austrian Bundesliga (Austria)

    Coefficient 11th, Opta 9th — Salzburg’s consistent CL group‑stage appearances boost the coefficient, but the model sees a tighter, more competitive league than the ranking suggests.

  4. 4
    Scottish Premiership (Scotland)

    Coefficient 10th, Opta 13th — Celtic and Rangers’ European runs (mostly Europa League) lift the coefficient, but the league’s overall quality is lower than the top‑10 suggests.

  5. 5
    Swiss Super League (Switzerland)

    Coefficient 12th, Opta 15th — Young Boys’ CL participation and Basel’s Europa League runs keep the coefficient up, but the league’s bottom half is among the weakest in the top‑15.

  6. 6
    Croatian HNL (Croatia)

    Coefficient 13th, Opta 16th — Dinamo Zagreb’s regular CL qualification inflates the coefficient; the rest of the league is semi‑professional in European terms.

  7. 7
    Danish Superliga (Denmark)

    Coefficient 14th, Opta 11th — Copenhagen and Midtjylland’s European consistency makes the league stronger than its coefficient rank; the new bonus points hurt Denmark less than others.

  8. 8
    Portuguese Primeira Liga (Portugal)

    Coefficient 6th, Opta 7th — the gap is small, but the 2024‑25 bonus points for SL Benfica’s CL semi‑final run pushed Portugal ahead of France in the coefficient, while Opta rates Ligue 1 slightly higher.

  9. 9
    Dutch Eredivisie (Netherlands)

    Coefficient 7th, Opta 6th — Feyenoord, PSV, Ajax give depth; the coefficient benefits from Europa Conference League wins (AZ, Twente), but Opta sees the top‑3 as slightly stronger than the coefficient suggests.

  10. 10
    French Ligue 1 (France)

    Coefficient 5th, Opta 5th — almost perfectly aligned, but the 2024‑25 bonus points for PSG’s CL final run masked a drop in depth; this season Lille’s 0 points and Marseille’s EL exit show the volatility.

What Nemotron noticed

Opta’s league strength ranks the Eredivisie 6th, above Portugal and France, because its model values the high tempo and goal output of the Dutch top‑6 — a metric UEFA coefficients ignore.

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🇺🇸 Claude10 places · 2 notes

The same question, answered by Claude alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.

  1. 1
    Serie A (Italy)

    Second in the coefficient with 97.231 but the weakest of the big leagues in Europe this autumn: 13 points from 11 club-games (1.18 per game), with Inter at 0 from 2.

    Source ↗
  2. 2
    Primeira Liga (Portugal)

    Sixth on the football-coefficient.eu table, but Opta puts it around 9th and its two Champions League clubs have 6 points from 5 games (Porto 0 from 3).

    Source ↗
  3. 3
    Süper Lig (Türkiye)

    Ninth on the coefficient list but the lowest result of any league in this table: 5 points from 6 club-games (0.83 per game) for Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe.

    Source ↗
  4. 4
    Bundesliga (Germany)

    Fourth on the coefficient but second this autumn in Europe at 2.00 per game, with Opta placing it third.

    Source ↗
  5. 5
    Eredivisie (Netherlands)

    The order against Portugal depends on the window: sixth on the official 2025 ranking (67.150), eighth on the current football-coefficient.eu table (54.229).

  6. 6
    Czech First League (Czechia)

    Eleventh on the coefficient (45.525, level with Poland), but its one Champions League club, Slavia Prague, has 1 point from 3 games.

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    Belgian Pro League (Belgium)

    Seventh on the coefficient and eighth on one Opta list, but only one Champions League club, Club Brugge, with 3 points from 2 games.

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    Ligue 1 (France)

    Fifth on every list I found, but split inside: Paris Saint-Germain 9 points, Lens 3, Lille 0, which averages 1.50 per game.

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    Greek Super League (Greece)

    Tenth on the coefficient and one Champions League club, AEK Athens, on 3 points from 3 games, so its rank and results agree.

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    Premier League (England)

    First on every measure: 115.196 coefficient points, an Opta average of 92.6, and the best Champions League average this autumn at 2.31 points per club-game.

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What Claude noticed

Opta says the 'Big Five' label may be outdated. In its June 2025 league update, Opta asked whether the order based on UEFA coefficients still holds.

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Commentators have argued that France was in the top five of the coefficient while some years its European clubs changed from season to season.

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🇨🇳 MiMo10 places · 2 notes

The same question, answered by MiMo alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.

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    Eredivisie(Netherlands)

    Seventh on UEFA's five-season list and eighth live — after a 9.979 season that left the Netherlands behind Poland (15.750) and Greece (14.200).

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    Primeira Liga (Portugal)

    Sixth on UEFA's five-season list, yet Portugal out-earned both Italy and France last season — 20.500 against 19.000 and 18.321.

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    Ligue1 (France)

    France's 18.321 last season was Europe's sixth-best haul — while PSG's bonus-rich runs hold up a fifth-place five-season rank.

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    LaLiga (Spain)

    UEFA has Spain third (97.046) and Opta's model fourth — yet Spain out-earned Germany last season 22.093 to 21.785.

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    Ekstraklasa(Poland)

    Poland's clubs took 15.750 points last season — more than Belgium or the Netherlands — and Poland still has no Champions League club.

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    BelgianPro League (Belgium)

    Belgium has passed the Netherlands on the live table (61.050 v 54.229) — one week after Club Brugge won 4-3 at Inter.

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    SerieA (Italy)

    Italy is second on UEFA's list and second in Opta's model — yet its 2025-26 haul (19.000) was only Europe's fifth-best.

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    Bundesliga(Germany)

    Germany is fourth by UEFA's coefficient and third in Opta's model — while Stuttgart sit 13th at home and unbeaten in Europe.

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    SuperLeague Greece

    Greece's best season in five years (14.200) lifted it to tenth live — the season AEK Athens returned to the Champions League after eight years away.

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    Eliteserien(Norway)

    Two Champions League clubs for the first time since 1999-2000 — and Viking held Bayern 3-3 while Bodø/Glimt lost 5-0 in Munich.

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What MiMo noticed

AChampions League league-phase finish is worth 6.000 to 12.000 coefficient points before a single win, and 1.5 more per knockout round — which is how one deep club can carry a whole association.

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Spainbeat Germany last season 22.093 to 21.785 and leads the five-year list too (97.046 v 92.902) — yet the Bundesliga is the model's third-strongest league and La Liga only fourth.

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🇨🇳 DeepSeek10 places · 2 notes

The same question, answered by DeepSeek alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.

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    Greek Super League (Greece)

    Greece are 10th in the five-year UEFA coefficient but only 27th in Opta's league strength — a 17-place gap, the widest in the top 15.

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    Süper Lig (Turkey)

    Turkey sit 9th in the five-year coefficient but 25th in Opta; Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe have combined for just five points from six Champions League games.

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    Eredivisie (Netherlands)

    The Eredivisie are 8th in the coefficient but 22nd in Opta; PSV and Feyenoord have seven points from five Champions League matches.

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    Primeira Liga (Portugal)

    Portugal are 6th in the coefficient and 9th in Opta, but Porto's 0 points from three Champions League games make the club-level delivery look worse than the ranking.

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    Serie A (Italy)

    Italy are 2nd in the five-year coefficient but 7th in the current single-season table; Inter have 0 points and Napoli 3 from their first three Champions League games.

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    Ligue 1 (France)

    France are 5th in both the coefficient and Opta, but Lille's 0 points drag the Ligue 1 Champions League average to 1.50 per game.

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    Belgian Pro League (Belgium)

    Belgium are 7th in the coefficient but 8th in Opta; Club Brugge's three points from two games are the only Champions League return.

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    Eliteserien (Norway)

    Norway are 13th in the five-year coefficient but 5th in the current-season coefficient — an eight-place single-season surge; Bodø/Glimt and Viking have four points from five Champions League games.

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    La Liga (Spain)

    Spain are 3rd in the coefficient but 2nd in Opta, and their Champions League clubs average 2.08 points per game — the model says the coefficient slightly underrates them.

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    Bundesliga (Germany)

    Germany are 4th in the coefficient but 3rd in Opta; Stuttgart's 7 points and Dortmund's 6 make the Champions League return 1.82 per game.

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What DeepSeek noticed

Portugal's 6th-place coefficient is built on depth and recent European runs, but Porto's 0 points from three CL games show how quickly club-level delivery can diverge from the country ranking.

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England are the one top-15 league where coefficient rank (1st), Opta rank (1st) and Champions League delivery (27 points from 10 matches, 2.70 PPG) all agree — there is no over-rating debate at the top.

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