Three rounds of the league phase in the 2025-2026 season of the UEFA Champions League have passed. The Azerbaijani representative "Qarabağ" is 13th with 6 points in the 36-team competition.
Medianews.az reports that six other teams have the same number of points, two teams have 7, five teams have 9, and one team has 5 points.
In the eight-round round, those who occupy the top 8 places will directly qualify for the round of 16, and those who rank 9th-24th will go to the round of 32. When points are equal, the following criteria will sequentially be considered: goal difference, number of goals, number of away goals, number of wins, number of away wins, indicators of the team's opponents in the round (points, goal difference, number of goals), penalty points (yellow and red cards), and the team's ranking.
In the remaining five rounds, "Qarabağ" will face England's "Chelsea," the Netherlands' "Ajax," and Germany's "Eintracht" (Frankfurt) teams at home, and Italy's "Napoli" and England's "Liverpool" teams away.
In the Champions League, held since 1955 and known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup until 1992, "Real" has 15 titles, "Milan" 7, "Bayern" and "Liverpool" 6, "Barcelona" 5, "Ajax" 4, "Inter" (Italy) and "Manchester United" 3, "Benfica," "Nottingham Forest," "Juventus," "Porto," and "Chelsea" 2, and "Celtic," "Feyenoord," "Aston Villa," "Hamburg," "Steaua," PSV, "Red Star Belgrade," "Marseille," "Borussia" (Dortmund), "Manchester City," and PSG have 1 title each.
Azerbaijan ranks 25th in UEFA’s club ranking, which has 55 members. The ranking is based on coefficients obtained in the last five seasons of club tournaments. In the qualifying rounds, a win is worth 1 point, a draw half a point; in subsequent rounds a win is worth 2 points and a draw 1 point. Bonus points are also awarded from the league phase to the final. The points collected are divided by the number of clubs from the country qualified for continental tournaments, and the coefficient is calculated with an accuracy of one-thousandth. Azerbaijan has obtained a 4.875 coefficient this season.
Toğrul Əli,
Medianews.az
