Methodology & sources

Coverage position

What this snapshot contains

UEFA club competition editions from the 2024/25 league-phase format onward. Official 2026/27 participants and draw pairings include estimated total travel, routine arrival controls, opponent-coefficient difficulty and a transparent composite path index. Match dates, results and standings follow verified publication.

The current football season is 2026/27; the latest season represented by data is 2026/27. The current draw is represented.

Rankings

Table ordering

Completed league-phase positions are transcribed from official tables. Draw difficulty is ranked separately within each competition because schedule sizes differ. No cross-competition composite score is calculated.

Draw metrics

Rivals, travel, controls & path difficulty

Sum and average of every drawn opponent's frozen UEFA club coefficient at the league-phase draw. Rankings are separate by competition.

Total draw travel is normally the sum of round-trip great-circle distances for every away match between assigned competition venues. Documented route constraints insert their published intermediate legs, and a displaced-club profile may include every home and away match journey.

Estimated routine arrival-control events per round trip: zero within one country, within Schengen, or within the Common Travel Area; otherwise two, one in each direction. Shakhtar's published 2026/27 scenario separately counts the Ukraine-Poland ground crossing and the onward flight boundary. Turkish and Cypriot clubs traveling between Turkey and Cyprus are routed through an airside Rhodes technical stop that adds distance but no Greek passport-control event. Temporary controls, routing, nationality, visas and carrier checks can change the real experience.

A competition-relative 0-100 index using min-max normalization: 65% opponent coefficient total, 25% round-trip travel, and 10% estimated arrival controls. Higher is harder; scores must not be compared across competitions.

A boundary trip has one assigned venue inside the named travel area and the other outside. These are geographic travel indicators, not individual visa advice.

Travel areas

Current membership lists

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