PSG? Manchester City? FC Barcelona? None of these three institutions is the best mixed club. It is actually Bayern Munich. If we add up the points of the men’s and women’s teams in the UEFA rankings, the Bavarian club is well ahead of all the others.
Looking at the ranking of the cumulative points in the men’s and women’s tables, we see that FC Barcelona, second best mixed club according to the graph, has the particularity of being more supported by its women’s team than its men’s team. In the women’s ranking, the Catalan club is first, where, among men, it is only 12th. Women therefore bring in more, in cumulative UEFA points, with 109 points, compared to 89 for these gentlemen.
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Barça is the club that comes closest to a 50/50, with 44.95% of the points reported by the men’s team compared to 55.05% for the women’s section.
Even if we look at other figures, Bayern Munich remains the best mixed club in Europe. By averaging the positions in the two tables, the Bavarians once again monopolize first place, this time tied with the City of Lights club.
Bayern Munich and PSG are the only two clubs to place their women’s and men’s teams in the top 5 of both rankings.
Spain produces another particularity: the consistency of Atlético de Madrid. The Colchoneros and the Colchoneras rank in the same position in both tables (13th). This is also the case for Ajax Amsterdam, further down the rankings (24th).
Women’s teams outperforming men in Europe
If there is a club that can easily be described as a pioneer in women’s football in Europe, it is Olympique Lyonnais. With 8 Champions Leagues won by Fenottes, it is easily the best team on the continent in terms of records. OL are therefore logically 2nd in the UEFA women’s rankings behind Barça, the C1 title holder and finalist in the last three editions. But Les Gones, lacking European glory, rank 46th among men.
In the women’s top five, we find another team, Lyon’s rival for several seasons: Wolfsburg. The Germans, double winners of the Women’s Champions League (2013 and 2014) and beaten four times in the final (including in the last edition), are the 4th force in the ranking among women. Their male counterparts are only 78th… This is still far from the 223 positions which separate the girls from Hacken (Sweden, 12th) from the boys (235th).
Some clubs in the women’s top 20 are not even present in the men’s UEFA rankings. This is the case of St. Pölten, Rosengard of Paris FC, respectively 15th, 16th and 19th among women, who have no counterparts in European competition among men.
