The best soccer team in Europe
Keith R. Thompson

With the final month of the 2007/08 season upon us we once again rank the top teams that are playing in Europe. This represents our final rank for the season, following the December, January February and March rankings.

 As a reminder to properly evaluate the top teams within Europe we begin by considering the percent of points that they have accumulated relative to the maximum points available from those games they have played. Next we consider all matches played, both within domestic top league competition and against UEFA competition foes. Because the quality of opposition is stronger in UEFA Champions League play than it is in both UEFA Cup and domestic competition we weight matches played in the Champions League at twice as valuable as those in domestic competition, and weight UEFA Cup matches as 1.5 times as important as domestic competition play.

The following table shows the list of the top 20 teams in Europe ranked by their percentage of points earned in domestic and UEFA competitions through the end of April 2008.

Rank	Team	League	Games Played	Goal Diff.	Total Points	Max Points	Ave. Points	% Points Won	PER Score
1	Manchester United	England	48	67	111	144	2.31	77.1%	97.9
2	FC Porto	Portugal	36	49	86	108	2.39	79.6%	92.6
3	Chelsea	England	48	49	104	144	2.17	72.2%	88.2
4	Inter Milan	Italy	43	47	96	129	2.23	74.4%	86.0
5	Barcelona	Spain	46	41	88	138	1.91	63.8%	83.3
6	Olympiacos	Greece	38	36	82	114	2.16	71.9%	82.5
7	Arsenal	England	46	51	95	138	2.07	68.8%	81.9
8	Roma	Italy	45	35	92	135	2.04	68.1%	80.7
9	Liverpool	England	48	53	91	144	1.90	63.2%	77.8
10	Real Madrid	Spain	42	43	86	126	2.05	68.3%	77.0
11	Celtic	Scotland	44	52	92	132	2.09	69.7%	76.5
12	Rangers	Scotland	46	48	93	138	2.02	67.4%	76.4
13	Panathinaikos	Greece	36	31	77	108	2.14	71.3%	76.4
14	Bayern Munich	Germany	42	52	84	126	2.00	66.7%	73.8
15	Lyon	France	43	34	83	129	1.93	64.3%	72.9
15	PSV Eindhoven	Holland	43	36	82	129	1.91	63.6%	72.9
17	AEK Athens	Greece	36	45	74	108	2.06	68.5%	71.3
18	Bordeaux	France	41	27	81	123	1.98	65.9%	71.1
19	Everton	England	44	34	83	132	1.89	62.9%	70.8
20	Villarreal	Spain	40	19	78	120	1.95	65.0%	70.4
21	Zenit St Petersburg	Russia	42	30	79	126	1.88	62.7%	69.8
	UEFA Champions League
	UEFA Cup
	No European competition

See April 2008 rankings

See March 2008 ranking

See February 2008 ranking

See January 2008 ranking

See December 2007 ranking

© 2008 PER Sports.