Uefa Country Ranking 2007

So I guess the ranking, namely what position each country will hold, is somewhat of a debate with some people. Got this quote from another site:

"Romania on 5th after this year?
Author: doctor
Date: 15-07-2006, 18:00

after q1 and q2 of UC and q2 of CL Romania will have over 31 points so neherland is outscored.Portugal is too week with only 3 mediocre teams and 3 very week teams ,the battle will be with Germany. Good luck Romania. "

What do you guys think?

Right now it looks like this:

UEFA Country Ranking 2007
Last update: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:48:51 CET

# country 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 rank07 nt07
1 Spain 15.500 14.312 12.437 15.642 1.571 59.462 7/ 7
2 Italy 15.928 8.875 14.000 15.357 1.571 55.731 7/ 7
3 England 10.666 11.250 15.571 14.428 1.562 53.477 8/ 8
4 France 7.916 13.500 11.428 10.812 0.937 44.593 8/ 8
5 Germany 9.142 4.714 10.571 10.437 1.571 36.435 7/ 7
6 Portugal 10.750 10.250 8.166 5.500 1.750 36.416 6/ 6
7 Netherlands 6.166 5.416 12.000 7.583 0.642 31.807 7/ 7
8 Romania 2.166 4.333 5.500 16.833 2.500 31.332 3/ 3
9 Russia 3.625 5.875 10.000 10.000 0.875 30.375 4/ 4
10 Belgium 6.875 5.875 6.125 5.500 1.500 25.875 5/ 5
11 Scotland 7.375 7.375 4.750 4.250 1.125 24.875 4/ 4
12 Ukraine 4.250 4.875 8.100 5.750 1.250 24.225 4/ 4
13 Bulgaria 4.166 4.166 2.375 8.750 2.625 22.082 4/ 4
14 Czech Republic 6.200 7.375 2.875 4.625 0.750 21.825 4/ 4
15 Greece 7.166 4.166 6.166 3.333 0.666 21.497 6/ 6

Spain top

Not a very popular thread, that's unfortunate, but yes...Spain is top.

Portugal will catch Germany this year for 5th.

They should give us a Cup for being 1st ... we dont have many

"Romania on 5th after this year?
Author: doctor
Date: 15-07-2006, 18:00

after q1 and q2 of UC and q2 of CL Romania will have over 31 points so neherland is outscored.Portugal is too week with only 3 mediocre teams and 3 very week teams ,the battle will be with Germany. Good luck Romania. "

3 mediocre teams....right.....

I reckon they will stay where they are. Maybe we will get a few Romanian teams...

lamps,

I know, I couldn't believe this guy. I'm not registered on that forum so I couldn't say anything, but I think the fact that Carlos went from Boavista to being the best keeper in Romania says something.

He just walked right into the championship winning club...and he has the balls to call our clubs mediocre

Well, if it makes him happy....

Remind the kid that those 3 mediocre teams have more Uefa,Cup winners cup CL and European Champios Cups wins and finals together than France,Greece,Romenia,Russia,Scotland,Bulgaria and the Czech Republic all put together.

Where do they find this idiots?

And yet still our quality is always in question. I hate that our clubs are poor, that's the only thing holding them back.

Almost every 'Enlgish' sports site has the following leagues: Prem; La Liga; Serie A; Eridevise; SPL, but never Portugal.

When will our clubs get the recognition they deserve? Porto wins the stupid CL and everyone calls it a fluke, if it was Lyon they'd say they had a quality team. Despite Porto having had players like Carvalho, Maniche, Deco, Costinha etc.

Even the famous 'Benfica would be relegated from the Prem' ...well at least that one has turned into a good joke against these kinds of fools

Luso 'Sporting' wrote:Not a very popular thread, that's unfortunate, but yes...Spain is top.

Portugal will catch Germany this year for 5th.

i think there is only a minimal chance to overcome germany in the ranking for portugal

3 teams in CL, and with Schalke an uefa cup winner contender

Leverkusen can do well in UEFA cup too, maybe better than schalke, but i think there squad is not big enough


when you look at the points, germany achieved in the season 03/04, that was horrible, i think germany can only battle for the 3 or 4 place again when this dammit year is not guily anymore, thats gonna happen in 2009 i think

POrtugal have to defend a lot of points (more than Germany) so it be very difficult to beat the Germans!!!!!!

Luso 'Sporting' wrote:And yet still our quality is always in question. I hate that our clubs are poor, that's the only thing holding them back.

hear hear

Almost every 'Enlgish' sports site has the following leagues: Prem; La Liga; Serie A; Eridevise; SPL, but never Portugal.

Unjustly of course, Portuguese league is much much better than SPL for example. [no bundesliga though?]

but the SPL is much closer to home and the sites are generally uk sites not solely english sites

Luso 'Sporting' wrote:And yet still our quality is always in question. I hate that our clubs are poor, that's the only thing holding them back.

Almost every 'Enlgish' sports site has the following leagues: Prem; La Liga; Serie A; Eridevise; SPL, but never Portugal.

When will our clubs get the recognition they deserve? Porto wins the stupid CL and everyone calls it a fluke, if it was Lyon they'd say they had a quality team. Despite Porto having had players like Carvalho, Maniche, Deco, Costinha etc.

Even the famous 'Benfica would be relegated from the Prem' ...well at least that one has turned into a good joke against these kinds of fools

But the portuguese sites are also not very good.... Hardly any stats etc! Why???? Portuguese must promote their league better and try to give better info!!!!! It is terrible right now!

Not really, MaisFutebol has a good stats page, and good coverage of the CL http://www.maisfutebol.iol.pt/lcamp.php and of the SuperLiga
But you are right about marketing tough
Another problem is that the sites are generally in Portuguese only, what does not help
They should do a variant in English.

Still we go to the point Luso was making. Portuguese clubs in general do not have the same financial power than their European counterparts
If we did, we might fight for more honours in this new CL format.

Nice to see the ball is rolling...

Ok, so first point: Deisler and Ricardo, I was pretty much joking on the catching Germany thing, I just want our clubs to keep the position they have...if anything else is possible great.

2nd: DD, good to see you agree on the money point, as for the Bundesliga...sorry guys forgot to mention them as it's a staple league as well.

3rd: Frank, you're right the sites are generally UK sites, I didn't explain myself very well with the 'English' claim...I meant 'English' speaking sites. Still, I think our league has historically done enough in Europe to be more respected and deserves looking at. What has the French league won in comparisson for example?

Ricardo is absolutely right about the marketing of the Portuguese league though. It's pretty much the big 3 and that's it. You look on 'Abola' and you can find an actuall 'tracker' of their league position for the year...are we to just ignore the rest of the league?
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The web sites reflect the population, the big 3 are the ones that sell the sportspapers and tv rights... things seem to be changing a little, but we still need more affirmation from fans of the 'medium' clubs: Braga, Guimaraes, Boavista etc.

The guys in charge seem to think it's just not worth the effort to advertise to a foreign audience...but look at the FPF's site, it's crap too!

Lampiao

Do you have their for instance the amount assists? The site covers good info but it is not a very good site to understand especially not for a johnny foreigner like me....

But it is the best Portuguese site I could found!

Sporting Hwat tracker at abola? Do they show their some statistic info?

Nope, the tracker just shows their league position throughout the year...

Maybe the actual league's site will have something of interest for you: www.lfpf.pt

you meant www.fpf.pt...?

But thanks anyway

strange.

i agree with spain being top, but england should be 2nd.

Oh dear there we go again....

It is NOT the UEFA HATES England or something.... the Serie A collected a lot of points in the last 5 years. 3 times Italy reached the Finals of the CL... How many England teams did that in the past 5 years....

exact......! 1!!!!

ricardojol wrote:Oh dear there we go again....

It is NOT the UEFA HATES England or something.... the Serie A collected a lot of points in the last 5 years. 3 times Italy reached the Finals of the CL... How many England teams did that in the past 5 years....

exact......! 1!!!!

2!!!!

Arsenil are french....

ricardojol wrote:Arsenil are french....

Damn, how could i forgot that terrible Arsenal! There must be some Spurs chip in my head....

But still, Italy had more!

Having said this England can reach the top in the next few years! But at the moment it is the THIRD league! No question possible!

Deisler wrote:

Luso 'Sporting' wrote:Not a very popular thread, that's unfortunate, but yes...Spain is top.

Portugal will catch Germany this year for 5th.

i think there is only a minimal chance to overcome germany in the ranking for portugal

3 teams in CL, and with Schalke an uefa cup winner contender

Leverkusen can do well in UEFA cup too, maybe better than schalke, but i think there squad is not big enough


when you look at the points, germany achieved in the season 03/04, that was horrible, i think germany can only battle for the 3 or 4 place again when this dammit year is not guily anymore, thats gonna happen in 2009 i think

Bremen will do well int he UEFA when they prob finish 3rd

ricardojol wrote:you meant www.fpf.pt...?

But thanks anyway

Nope, I mean www.lpfp.pt as that's the league's site...sorry about the mistake

www.fpf.pt is the Portuguese Federation's site

Luso 'Sporting' wrote:

ricardojol wrote:you meant www.fpf.pt...?

But thanks anyway

Nope, I mean www.lpfp.pt as that's the league's site...sorry about the mistake

www.fpf.pt is the Portuguese Federation's site

This site looks quite decent at first sight!

But they don't collect the assists I am looking for!...

@Ricardo,

I remember you long time quest of finding the assists for Portuguese league!!

Its very stupid, but we don't regularly count them. Even the sports newspapers that have all these things, they don't keep the records!

Nope they don't, and it's quite strange when you think about players being praised for the amount of goals they provide for other players.

Remember João Pinto in the championship winning season? Almost for every Jardel goal, there was a JVP assist, and he got a lot of credit for it.

Thanks for the info guys

@Doninha

You indeed said that before but I hoped they changed their minds and started to collect assists...