Rangers in top 10 of UEFA coefficient rankings over past five years
Rangers have earned the 10th-most UEFA coefficient points over the past five years, according to data from Swiss Football Data.
The Light Blues have earned 17,075 coefficient points over the past five seasons which is only just over 2,000 less than table-topping Bayern Munich.
More to the point, the Gers are above the likes of FC Barcelona (11th), Juventus (13th) Manchester United (16th) and Atletico Madrid (17th) after their stunning Europa League final run saw them shoot up the leaderboard.
Rangers are also the only Scottish side to be present anywhere within the top 20 but they are below Red Star Belgrade who they went on to beat in the round of 16 in the Europa League in 2021-22.
There are three English sides further up on the list to make the Bears the fourth-best in the British Isles with Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea all cemented within the top ten.
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Scottish football can bow down and worship us for creating more and more European places for the riff-raff of the division.
Our exploits in the Europa League has seen the entirety of European football suddenly take notice of us and Scottish football as a whole and we are now talked about on the same kind of level as the likes of Portugal and Holland in terms of club football.
The famous Ibrox atmosphere is one of the most feared on the continent and it certainly helped Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side shock the world by reaching the final having had to beat two of Germany’s top sides over two legs.
After a number of years without a competitive Premiership, club football in Scotland is finally on the up and we have been the flag-bearers during our exploits.
Celtic could not even beat the Norwegian champions in the Conference League so they can be the first to enter our church to worship the mighty Glasgow Rangers.
In other Rangers news, we may have dodged a bullet in the transfer market with this 27-year-old likely to head to the Premier League instead of Ibrox.