Article by Daniel Grigore – Published on Friday, August 1, 2025, 10:03 / Updated on Friday, August 20, 20:04
The results recorded by the Romanian teams Thursday evening, in the European Cups, make our country provisionally climb a position in the UEFA coefficient ranking, approaching Hungary in the fight for 23rd place.
Two victories and one equal was the balance sheet of Thursday for the Romanian Superliga. CFR Cluj defeated Lugano, Craiova University has passed Sarajevo enthusiastically4-0, but Romania lost a team on the European front, U Cluj being eliminated by Ararat-Armenia after 1-2 in return (in the tour had been 0-0).
The two wins on Thursday evening make that the Romanian coefficient has been added 0.500 points. This is because each victory in the preliminaries is rewarded by 1 point, and the total is divided by the number of representatives of the respective country. In this case, two points divided by 4.
Funny day for Romania »Climbing in the ranking of coefficients after the victories of Craiova and CFR
With the 0.500 points, Romania provisionally exceeded the Slovak championship, climbing 24th. The Slovaks also have 20,875 points (the sum of the last 5 seasons), but in a drawing the departure is made according to the coefficient of the current season, where Romania is better (1,375 versus 1.125).
The two wins of Thursday evening also made Romania approaching Hungary, occupying 23rd in this ranking. Hungarians have 21,000 points, The difference from Romania is now only 0.125, compared to 0.250 Wednesday evening.
UEFA coefficient ranking today August 1
The 23rd place is extremely important, as the country on that position sends its champion directly to the preliminary round of the Champions League. Currently, the Superligi champion starts from the first round.
Hungary and Slovakia lost 3 teams
The good part in this duel with Hungary is that the neighbors lost a team, Akademia Puskas being eliminated From Conference League after 2-5 general with Aris, 2-3 in the tour, 0-2 on return.
Hungarians remained in competition with Paksi and Gyorqualified in preliminary round 3 of Conference League, respectively Ferencvárosin round 3 of the Champions League.
And Slovakia, the country on a par with Romania, remained with only two of the 4 representatives. Slovan Bratislava He advanced in the preliminary round 3 of the Champions League, Spartak Trnava in round 3 of Conference League (where he will face the University of Craiova), but Kosice and Zilina left the Preliminaries Conference League, the first after 3-4 with Neman, the latter after 1-6 with Rakow.
