Arsenal’s long absence from the Champions League has impacted their UEFA coefficient, resulting in them finishing below West Ham in the latest rankings.
Despite being one of the top clubs in England and consistently delivering strong performances in the league, Arsenal’s hiatus from Europe’s premier club competition has taken its toll.
When Mikel Arteta took over as manager, Arsenal had already missed out on the Champions League for at least two seasons. Thanks to the hard work of Arteta and his players, the team eventually returned to the competition last season and has qualified for the next season as well.
However, they are still playing catch-up in terms of UEFA coefficient. To break into the top ten teams in Europe, Arsenal must continue making good progress in the competition.
According to Talk Sport, Arsenal is 19th in the latest UEFA coefficient rankings, just above Atalanta in the top 20. This places them below West Ham, who are 16th, Villarreal, who are 7th, and AS Roma, who surprisingly hold 5th place in the latest rankings.
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Our long absence from the Champions League has certainly affected our coefficient and we expect things to gradually get better as we continue to continue to qualify and perform better in the Champions League.
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That’s low. We got to work our way up.
I do admire the way things are written in such a way that MA comes out without a stain on his character!!
Yes, we missed out on the CL for three seasons under AW and UE, but we were in a European competition, actually reaching the semi final and final.
Under Mikel, we were also out of the CL for three seasons and, for the first time in over two decades, out of Europe entirely… but let’s not point that out, as it might offend some.
Due to MA ‘s hard work, we are now back in the big time and, once again, goes to show why it is imperative to finish in those CL places.
I don’t think this will affect Mikel in any way with regards to the signing of players and our successes this coming season.
A CL qualifying place is certainly an imperative from now on as far as Arsenal is concerned. Not only for the UEFA rankings but for the cash it brings in.
The club has generally slipped down the rankings in all sorts of tables. For example, it is 10th by financial turnover in Europe currently (and has the bottom place out of the “big 6” PL clubs). The lowly position in the UEFA rankings is a fresh example.
Arsenal needs to re-build its status as a leading European club and become a big player on the European stage again, which it isn’t at present if we’re honest about it. The work done in recent seasons is a good start of course, but Arteta/Arsenal need to win silverware – preferably beginning with the PL in 2024-25.
Just continue to qualify for the UCL and prove the greatness of Arsenal on the pitch. UEFA knows what it can do with its ridiculous “coefficients”.
Thank very much, waited to someone to say that. The coefficient in my opinion is just cow dung at its best. You cannot fet a good fruit from a bad tree. With the credibility of balloon dor always in question, why should this coefficient of a thing even be considered.
Akinwale, tell that to the Germans and Italians, as they both have one extra team in the CL because of their coefficient points.
We could have done ken but Arsenal lost to Bayern, who took that extra place because we failed to beat them. I dont get this beating of EUFA? We failed, not them.
Actually, the additional teams were based on how well the teams from each domestic league did in each round of this year’s tournaments. That was as it should have been imo. The determination of club “coefficients” is another story (a long, long, one).
Continued qualification is very important but Arsenal’s “greatness” will only be confirmed (in European competition anyway) when they actually win the CL trophy.
Arsenal is now noticeably absent in the list of PL teams having won it – only Sp*rs have also failed to win it from the so-called “Big 6”.
Yes, as I mentioned they have to prove it on the pitch.
Well due to getting to the semi final last season, we’ve moved up 4 places from 23 to 19. Hopefully this coming season we can do just as well, if not better, and continue to move up the rankings, culminating in making top 8 which will make us a top seed for the future group seedings.
HD – missing out on any European football cost us dearly though and what semi final are you referring to?
Those heady days of being in pot one season after season seem a long way off.
I believe MA will carry on the great work mind you and top seeding will return.
But the bottom line is Arsenal actually winning the CL, isn’t it?
Qualification is one thing – and vitally important in Arsenal’s case, but most “big clubs” take that for granted most (not necessarily all) of the time. It’s winning it that put a club into the elite group. Arsenal has, so far anyway, failed pretty miserably overall – despite all those years qualifying under Arsene’s management.
Sorry Ken, my mistake, it was the Quarter Finals.
Yeah they do seem like a distant memory. Had some great away days, even found the building where I was born when we became the first English team to win in Dortmund. My only gripe during those times was once we had qualified for the knock out stages we put out understrength teams. I know that bench players then got to start a CL game, but we ended up finishing 2nd in our groups, meaning we then faced a winner of another group and ended up going out.
BMK and HD, there can be no denying that, during Arsene’s time in the CL, we were very disappointing after qualifying through the group stages at every opportunity bar one.
Even reaching a final and two semis didn’t help.
I’m hoping Mikel will have more success!!
Yep!! The bottom line, as far as the CL is concerned, is winning the damn thing.
None of us would have liked getting the coefficient points that enabled an extra CL birth seeing as it was Tott who would get rewarded