Club coefficient
The club coefficient is the ranking of an individual club. It is built from that club's results in the competition over several seasons, and it places the club in a pot for the draw and seeds it in the knockout rounds.
Why it matters
It matters because it decides who a club can meet. A high coefficient places the club among the strongest seeds and separates it from the other top sides early in the competition, so the ranking shapes the whole campaign.
Where it is used
It is used in the draw and in the seeding of the knockout rounds. It also feeds the value pillar of the distribution, so the coefficient reaches into the money as well as into the fixtures.
How to read it
Read it as a measure of standing. It summarises a club's results over a window of seasons, and two clubs with similar totals are treated alike in the draw, whatever their current form.
What it means
the ranking that places a single club in the pots of the draw
Club coefficient is one of the working terms of the competition. This entry explains it as a mechanism that holds true from season to season, so it can be read on its own or alongside the other entries in the glossary of the tournament.
- Ranks a single club.
- Built from that club's own results.
- Places the club in a pot.
- Seeds the club in the knockout rounds.
- Also shapes part of the distribution.
- A summary of standing over several seasons.