After two rounds of the league phase in the 2025-2026 season of the UEFA Champions League, the Azerbaijani representative "Qarabağ" is 6th among 36 teams with 6 points.
Medianews.az reports that, according to the regulations of the eight-round stage, the top 8 teams advance directly to the round of 16, while those ranked 9th to 24th compete in the round of 32. When points are equal, the following criteria are taken into account sequentially: goal difference, number of goals, number of away goals, number of wins, number of away wins, the indicators of the team's opponents in the round (points, goal difference, number of goals), disciplinary points (yellow and red cards), and the team's ranking.
Since 1955, the competition held and called the Champions Cup until 1992, in the Champions League, "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, "Celtic", "Feyenoord", "Aston Villa", "Hamburg", "Steaua", PSV, "Red Star Belgrade", "Marseille", "Borussia" (Dortmund), "Manchester City", and PSG 1 title each.
Azerbaijan ranks 25th in UEFA's club rankings, which has 55 members. The ranking is based on coefficients earned over the last five seasons of club tournaments. A win in qualifying rounds earns 1 point, a draw half a point; in later rounds, a win earns 2 points, a draw 1 point. From the league phase to the final, there are also bonus points. The total points are divided by the number of clubs from that country qualifying for continental tournaments, and the coefficient is calculated with an accuracy of one-thousandth. Azerbaijan has achieved a coefficient of 4.875 this season.
Toğrul Ali,
Medianews.az
