Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Friday, October 3, 2025, 08:04 / Updated on Friday, October 3, 2025 08:04
Following the European results registered this week, the Romanian championship was detached from Croatia in the UEFA coefficient ranking.
Romania started the week in the 21st place in the UEFA coefficient ranking, a position that has climbed thanks to the results registered in the preliminaries of the European Cups this season.
However, we are at the beginning of the season, and the fight for the 21st place will be fierce, given that 5 leagues have mathematical chance at occupying this position.
For Romania, this week was not running: defeats for Fcsb and Craiova University0-2 with Young Boys and Rakow, which means that the dowry remains the same, of 23,250 points. Thanks to Thursday's results, Croatia reached 23,625 points and has expanded Romania.
The nightmare evening went down Romania in the UEFA ranking
Croatians also have two teams in European competitions, Dinamo Zagreb in the Europa League, respectively Rijeka in Conference League. The first one won with Maccabi Tel Aviv, 3-1, Rijeka lost with Noah, 0-1.
In this phase of competitions, groups, Each victory is rewarded with two pointsthe total being divided by the number of European representatives of that country in that season. In this case, 2 divided by 4, ie 0.5 points.
This climbed the Croatian coefficient from 23.125 (under Romania) to 23,625.
And the Hungarians put pressure on our championship, the neighboring country being only 0.125 points ago. Hungary only has it on Ferencváros In European competitions, in the Europa League, but the country's champion won 1-0 with Genk, and brought 0.5 points to the total of the country.
The columns are related to the coefficients of the last 5 seasons, the final coefficient and the number of teams left in the competition
In establishing this ranking, not only the individual results are important, but also the positions that FCSB and Craiova University will occupy at the end of the League phase. That's because the first 24 places bring additional points.
Why does the position of Romania matter? Because the League on the 16-24 places send their champions directly to the preliminary round of the Champions Leagueinstead of the first, as happened in the last seasons with the best team internally.
