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Recopa Mundial: 10.06.2012
Grêmio - Corinthians


	CLUB WORLD RANKINGS.COM Home of the Oosterpark Rankings The 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.				Oosterpark Rankings 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. By its very nature the project will 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 probably 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. Minimum screen resolution of 1024x768 recommended


	Top-10 changes alert! Posted 17.05.2012 by Mark de Vries With almost every one of the hundreds of trophies and bonuses won each year, clubs move up the all-time rankings. But way up the list, they've earnt so many points it takes a chain of trophies to improve one's ranking further. Even Barcelona's recently terminated dominance failed to move them to the summit of the Oosterpark Rankings. Taking second place from AC Milan was the best it could do, and that was three years ago. The Top 10 is in fact so stable that 2009 was the last year changes to it took place. Barca passing AC Milan for second coincided with Manchester United taking 8th place off Ajax' hands. Since then: stability (although admittedly it was the recent re-adjustment of domestic cup ratings that undid Internazionale's brief overtaking of Peñarol in 10th place). So for over 1,000 days there haven't been changes to the top 10, and yet this weekend we might witness two in 24 hours! On Saturday evening, Bayern München enjoy home advantage against Chelsea when the two sides face each other in the UEFA Champions League final. While the 300 points up for grabs would take the Londoners up three places to 34th, a further improvement on their current best ever ranking, Bayern have their own all-time high in sight, as victory would see them leapfrog Milan into 3rd place, by a mere seven points. Seven points is also exactly the margin by which Juventus would get the better of Liverpool to take 5th place on Sunday. Their Coppa Italia final against Napoli (to whom vicory would represent a leap from 131st to 120th) could yield them 40 points for that trophy, and crucially another 10 for completing the Italian Double, having won the league (unbeaten in fact) earlier this month. And then there's Boca Juniors in 7th place. They're still in the hunt for the Argentine Clausura title (to add to the Apertura crown won in December 2011), two points off the lead, and have reached the Quarter Finals of both Copa Argentina and Copa Libertadores. The latter of those competitions is the one they're required to win to gain places in the Oosterpark Rankings this year, though any points won elsewhere contribute to the steady climb up the table the most successful club of the 21st century commenced just over a decade ago.				Site Latest Club World Rankings News:


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: Grêmio In February, Grêmio had two shots at taking Recopa Mundial from their eternal rivals Internacional, and were successful at the second attempt. Interestingly, they did it in the away game, having failed to beat the holders at home. Kléber's second half goal eventually proved decisive in a 2x1 win. Had Internacional hung on to the trophy, it would've been in Santos' hands by now, following the outcome of their Copa Libertadores clash. But instead, Recopa Mundial is under Grêmio's control, and their next scheduled title defence is on June 10, against Corinthians. Of course, depending on how the Campeonato Gaúcho pans out, an Internacional x Grêmio revenge bout could yet take place before that, but for now, we're looking at another three month break in Recopa MUndial action.
Record champions by club: Boca Juniors, 84 times River Plate, 58 Estudiantes, 44 Independiente, 41 Vélez Sarsfield, 23 São Paulo, 19 Santos, 18 Racing Club, 16 Peñarol, 13 Olimpia, 9 Grêmio, 7 AC Milan, 6 Real Madrid, 6 Nacional, 5 Corinthians, 4 Flamengo, 4 Internacional, 4 Juventus, 1	Also qualified but as yet without a successful title challenge: Ajax, 0 Atlético Madrid, 0 Barcelona, 0 Bayern München, 0 Borussia Dortmund, 0 Crvena zvezda, 0 Feyenoord, 0 FC Porto, 0 Internazionale, 0 Manchester United, 0 Next title match: see top of this page!	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, 5 Title wins by confederation, intercontinental matches only: CONMEBOL, 4 UEFA, 1

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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).

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2012 Overview

A quick glance at the theoretical number of 2012 points still available...

Primary Majors: 233 trophies for 2,586 pts
Secondary Majors: 154 trophies for 642 pts
Minor trophies: 73 trophies for 150 pts
Bonus points: 528 bonuses for 1,221 pts

2012 Points Map available here:

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.

August 16 Court

The August 16 Court is the place where decisions regarding the all-time rankings are made when arguments are put forward for inclusion of "missing" competitions, re-valuation of events etc... Its second case concerned FK Pribram and whether or not it was to be seen as a continuation of Dukla Praha, as was the case until now.

Sources at the time the Oosterpark Rankings were first drawn up were adament that the club that by then had changed its name to FC Marila Príbram was at least the spiritual successor carrying on Dukla's tradition, but events over the years have taken away the power behind the original argument.

To cap it all off, a new club has emerged under the name of one of the former Eastern Block's most illustrious teams, although that has a pretty weak case if it would ever to claim to be THE famous Dukla from the Czech capital.

This case does appear to have a lot in common with the old Wimbledon FC: being moved elsewhere in the country and fans starting a new club with pretty much the old name. In that situation, the old club was considered extinct as far as the Oosterpark Rankings are concerned, with potential new future entries for MK Dons (the owners' path) and AFC Wimbledon (the fans' route). That is also how clubworldrankings.com will treat the Prague case.

Ultimately, the rankings have been adapted to split the combined 1,082 points those clubs scored. The 1,077 scored under the Dukla Praha name (until 1990, though the club ceased to exist six years later) are listed as such, leaving that club in 87th place in the all-time rankings, as was the place of the continuation club now playing in Pribram. It makes Dukla the highest ranked club that doesn't exist anymore today, taking that sad accolade over from Admira Wien, with Belfast Celtic now third on that list.

As for 1.FK Pribram: they find themselves back in 2326th position, with five points to their name, the last of them coming in 2004. None of us will live to see the day they pass the legendary Dukla, if they ever will...

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.

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.