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CLUB WORLD RANKINGS.COMHome of the Oosterpark RankingsThe world's biggest club football rankings, est. 1999  Herzlich Willkommen auf Club World Rankings.com, Heim der größte historische Klub Fußball-Rangliste. Bienvenue sur Club World Rankings.com, site des classements historiques des clubs de football. Welkom op Club World Rankings.com, de uitgebreidste historische ranglijst van het clubvoetbal. Добре дошли в Club World Rankings.com, Най-голямата ранг листа на световния клуб по футбол Bem-vindo ao Club World Rankings.com, lar do maior ranking histórico de clubes de futebol. Bienvenidos al Club World Rankings.com, hogar del mayor ranking histórico de los clubes de fútbol.
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Oosterpark Rankings
*** NEXT RANKINGS UPDATE ± 4 AUGUST *** Welcome to the Oosterpark Rankings, the most complete historical club football rankings on the internet. On this site, you will find club world rankings calculated from the very beginning of football as we know it in the season 1871/1872. The main part of the rankings is the all-time club world ranking, composed by taking into account almost 60,000 database entries in terms of trophies won and (bonus)points obtained, awarded to around 4,500 clubs across the globe. That basically means all club football competitions "worth mentioning", at domestic league and cup level as well as continental and intercontinental competitions were taken into account. From Real Madrid to Zoundourma, any club that's ever won anything noteworthy is listed somewhere in the rankings. The Oosterpark Rankings take an interest only in club football and regional and world club rankings. At times, requests for league or even international football rankings have been made, but there are enough of those available on the internet. To the best of my knowledge, there is no comparable all-time club football ranking though, certainly not at world club level, which is why ClubWorldRankings.com focuses on them. Last year (in 2009), the project celebrated its 10th birthday, but it will by its very nature always be 'work in progress'. This is why occasionally retroactive changes to the rankings may occur, even though with the 10th anniversary update of 27 September 2009, we've passed the point where it affects the top of the rankings. Nevertheless, whenever hitherto unknown facts, competitions and the like surface, they will be included in the rankings. 
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World Cup 2010
"Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and everyone thinks everyone else's stinks." Or so a famous movie quote goes. But have mine (the opinion that is!) anyway: This World Cup sucks, I'm only watching 'cos my lot are in the semi finals. First of all, there's that god-awful vuvuzela. If you'd open an illustrated dictionary, you'd find a picture of them under "noise pollution". They're supposedly part of football "culture" in South Africa (the question remains how any phenomenon less than 20 years old can possibly be classed as culture), so by all means allow them for games involving Bafana Bafana, but now that the tournament is down to the usual(ish) suspects I see no need for further suffering. We should ALL have switched off the TV until the vuvuzela was banned, then advertisers would've been unhappy, and in Sepp's world, money talks. Speaking of the incumbent FIFA President... One can only pray he was serious when talking about possibly reconsidering the use of technical aids. Goal line technology would be nice, but to kill off all the bickering about what should be and what should not be subject to technological intervention: just give the manager and the captain on either side the right to call for a video replay for ANY decision they disagree with, be it an offside call, an incorrectly awarded throw-in or whatever. The key point is that this right is subject to the following restriction: If a replay is called for and the original refereeing decision was right, then that was the one and only "unneccessary" replay call allowed by that side in that half of the game. No further right to intervention that side of half time for the club or country in question. Was the appeal justified, the team in question is allowed to appeal again that half. Quite how FIFA could possibly be opposed to that idea is beyond me. Apparently, the line of thinking is that unlike in tennis and cricket, to name two sports that have embraced technology, football doesn't have natural breaks during the game. Well, then make it an unnatural break! Oh and Sepp: think of the commercial possibilities... "This video refereree decision is brought to you by Bavaria". It's evident something needs to be done when it comes to pathetic refereeing mistakes. That rubbish about wanting to keep the game the same from your local village pub XI to the World Cup Final makes no sense at all. As if one could even BEGIN to compare those two extremes... We're talking a multi-billion dollar/pound/euro game here, you HAVE to provide the professional wing with professional equipment and technology. Anything less is mismanagement 101. If I were to refuse ready-to-use technology to make the right call at work, and as a direct result make a mistake that cost one affiliate millions while throwing it into the lap of another who scarcely deserves it, I'd not only find myself without a job, but on the receiving end of a serious liability claim as well. But enough of that, there's more that makes this World Cup easily forgettable. The lack of star players putting in memorable performances. Yes messrs Kaka, Messi, Rooney et all, I'm talking about you. Even the sides that are still involved in the tournament can't boast on their star players' performances. Robin van Persie has largely been invisible, Luis Suarez' most notable contribution, despite his goals earlier in the tournament, was his goalline save that eventually rescued Uruguay. As for Spain: Fernando Torres isn't his usual self, which leaves David Villa as the only recognised star to do what is expected of him. It says it all when Germany play the most impressive football of the tournament. They've taken up their usual place among the sides still involved at the business end of the World Cup, but this time, they're actually playing good football. And that, too, is worrying for those with an interest in the side wearing the background colour of this article. Maybe it's even the biggest reason why I'm pre-emptively calling this World Cup crap. Maybe I'm just scared to death of losing another World Cup Final to Deutschland. After all, if the Netherlands do win the damn thing, it will, by default, be the greatest World Cup in history. Only international football final tournaments do these kind of things to me. Please roll on the new club campaign... |
Site Latest
Club World Rankings News:8 July: Up-to-date post-1992 Rankings posted: Barcelona in first place6 June: Global update released24 May: Major CONCACAF update23 May: São Paulo snatch Recopa Mundial from Internacional after just three days23 May: African and Asian Champions Leagues on eight survivors each22 May: Internazionale win Champions League and return to all-time top-10 Stay up-to-date with our RSS feed
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Recopa Mundial
The Oosterpark Rankings present further expansion with the introduction of the Recopa Mundial, a boxing-style title contest featuring all former Intercontinental and World Club champions. For full details, use the site navigation at the top of this page. Current champions:  São Paulo06.06.2010: São Paulo coasted to a 3x1 win over Grêmio to extend their hold on Recopa Mundial by at least seven weeks as due to World Cup interference the next title bout isn't until their visit to Santos on July 25. Record champions by club:  Boca Juniors, 84 timesRiver Plate, 58 Estudiantes, 44 Independiente, 41 Vélez Sarsfield, 23 São Paulo, 17 Racing Club, 16 Peñarol, 13 Olimpia, 9 Santos, 9 AC Milan, 6 Real Madrid, 6 Nacional, 5 Grêmio, 3 Flamengo, 1 Internacional, 1 Juventus, 1 Ajax, 0 Atlético Madrid, 0 Barcelona, 0 Bayern München, 0 Borussia Dortmund, 0 Corinthians, 0 Crvena zvezda, 0 Feyenoord, 0 FC Porto, 0 Internazionale, 0 Manchester United, 0 Title wins by nation, excluding domestic competitions but allowing clashes between two sides from the same country in international club competitions:  Argentina, 54 Brazil, 16 Uruguay, 11 Paraguay, 9 Italy, 5 Spain, 5Title wins by confederation, intercontinental matches only:  CONMEBOL, 4 UEFA, 1Next title match: 25.07.2010 Santos x São Paulo (Brasileiro, Série A) |
Business Era Club Football Rankings One of the many rankings available through the site navigation are the Club Football Rankings since 1992, called "the business era rankings" since 1992 was the year when money started to talk more than ever in football, as Champions League and Premier League were founded. This ranking probably suits the football fan with a passion for short(er) term achievements. In any case, it does take away the historical advantage early-organised countries may enjoy in the real all-time rankings starting in 1872 (even though in actual fact this effect is rather small, as explained in the Guide to the Rankings). 
"Follow the money"to see the up-to-date version of this modern day ranking Latest Football Business News (external feed) [Disabled: The Oosterpark Rankings are 100% anti pop-up ads!] |
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Current Leaders
Apart from the all-time world club rankings, this site also features many regional listings: by continent (or by confederation membership to be precise), and, in the case of the stronger leagues, domestic ratings too. The latter ones do include points scored outside a nation's boundaries as well, so as not to be reduced to a simple reflection of the number of league titles, which they otherwise would turn out to be. Other available rankings include those per era (19th, 20th and 21st century, continental competition era, business era. The full historical tables are available through the navigation button at the top of each page. What follows below is a quick glance at the (current) leaders in those sub-categories.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Recent Key Game Bayern München 0 - 2  InternazionaleSaturday 22 May 2010 José Mourinho, Diego Milito and the rest of Internazionale's 2009/2010 roster secured their place in history by landing the European Cup for the Milan side for the first time in 45 years, becoming the first Italian side to complete a Treble of Scudetto, Coppa Italia and European Cup. Possession is said to be 9/10ths of the law. Not so on this Saturday night, where Bayern enjoyed control of the ball twice as long as Inter but failed to do much good with it. Ivica Olic, the hero against Lyon and needing two goals to dislodge Lionel Messi as the tournament's top goalscorer failed to get a single shot on target. Young Thomas Müller did better, but Júlio César showed why he is one of the best goalkeepers in the world. In the absence of Franck Ribéry, Arjen Robben had to do it all by himself again. Unlike during the clashes with Man Utd and Fiorentina, the mercurial Dutch winger couldn't make the difference this time around. Credit must go to Inter's defence, who neutralised the German threat as efficiently as Barcelona's in the semi final. Mourinho's men went 1-0 up on 35 minutes, when Wesley Sneijder passed the ball to Milito at just the right moment, leaving the Argentine marksman with a golden chance to open the scoring. He didn't waste it. And before the first half was over, Milito returned the favour to Sneijder, putting him one-on-one with goalkeeper Butt. The Dutch midfielder wasn't as sharp as his teammate just minutes earlier though, and 1-0 was the half-time score. Bayern could, perhaps should, have levelled the contest in the first minute after the interval, when a rare lapse of concentration in the Inter defence gave them one of their best opportunities of the match. Again it went begging, and Louis van Gaal's outfit eventually paid the price. Like in the first half, Milito scored after 35 minutes, getting rid of a hestitant Van Buyten and curling the ball into the net. 2-0, game over, cue major celebrations. |
Site Origins
These club world rankings were named after FC Groningen's old Oosterpark Stadium, which was closed and demolished in 2006. And in case you were wondering where the green star logo comes from: that too is meant to uphold a tradition: for many years the Oosterpark Rankings were hosted by zelenazvezda.com, which is Bulgarian for green star.  Disclaimer We're allergic to disclaimers, so let it suffice to say that all stuff like club logos are the property of their respective owners etc... Please note these rankings are not officially endorsed by FIFA (there is no such thing as an official FIFA club world ranking because FIFA doesn't rank football clubs, it restricts itself to national teams) or any of its regional or national (con)federations. Nor are the Oosterpark Rankings in any way linked to the IFFHS club world ranking, be it their monthly club world ranking or their "all-time" world ranking, which isn't all-time in the first place. |
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