This is a European Football Club Ranking based on the Elo-System, mainly inspired by World Football Elo Ratings
23/05/2013 - Italian Serie B Playoff added (2004-2013).
16/05/2013 - Minor corrections (Sweden 2012).
24/03/2013 - New method to determine Home Field Advantage.
24/01/2013 - Minor corrections.
20/01/2013 - Polish results (1962+) added, 2-leg-formula changed, minor corrections.
12/12/2012 - Belgian results (1962+) added.
11/12/2012 - Norwegian, Austrian, Scottish and Swedish results (1946+) added. Thanks to Graeme Riley.
01/12/2012 - The Coppa Latina (1949-1957) is recognised and included in calculations.
09/09/2012 - Historic results from Romania (1963 onwards) added.
21/07/2012 - Predictions use now the Poisson/Elo model.
08/07/2012 - Some slight calculation errors for games from 1985 corrected.
25/06/2012 - Liechtenstein now independent from Switzerland.
23/05/2012 - Spanish La Liga Playoff 2011 added.
20/05/2012 - The Football Club Elo Ratings relaunch.
Have a look at the Elo System Description where the formulas and adjustments are explained.
In total, 344571 football games from European cups and league matches are in the database. Have a look at Data & Sources for details. National cup games are not taken into account.
A Python-Script is making the calculations and creating the whole HTML-Code. It runs on a virtual server provided by Memset. I use Google Analytics.
I am happy if you like this site. You can use my calculations, diagrams, rankings for any further use, I am sure there are plenty of interesting analyses possible based on this. Please cite me when you do so.
Lars Schiefler
London W2, UK
clubelo@schiefler.com