The Asian Football Confederation announced this month's ranking for the "yellow continent" leagues, which witnessed a new decline in the Arab Gulf League, by its ninth place, in the lowest ranking it has reached since the application of the AFC classification system for leagues after the application of professionalism.
The weak results of the Emirates clubs contributed to the current version of the AFC Champions League, in the continuing decline of the Arab Gulf League ranking against other Asian leagues, as the four clubs participating in the continental tournament got only five points out of a total of 24 points, after the unit tied at home with Al-Ahly Saudi And, away from home, he defeated the Iraqi police.
On the other hand, the Sharjah league champion got a point from a tie with Peruzzi, the loss from Saudi cooperation, and the two teams that were the most prepared and the two leading candidates to reach the exclusionary roles: Shabab Al-Ahly and Al-Ain, they received two consecutive defeats, with the league leaders losing to Pakhtakor Uzbekistan, and the Saudi Hilal, The eye in front of Sebhan and the Saudi victory.
Our league's total score reached 45,397 points, including 1,850 points this year, while the Japanese League topped 100 points this year, then the Chinese with 96.8 points, and Saudi Arabia third with 95 points.
According to the official website of the AFC, the classification allocates 10% to the results of the teams, according to the classification approved by the International Federation (FIFA), while it relies on 90% of the results of the clubs in the last four copies of the Asian Championships, which are: Asian Champions and Federation Cup.
The winning team in a Champions League match gets three points, one point in the event of a tie, and nothing in loss.
On the other hand, the number of points begins to increase according to the stages reached by the clubs, as each team gets three additional points for each stage that it overcomes, while it gets 0.3 additional points in the knockout game for each win, and 0.15 points on the tie, while In the event that more than one team is equal in the group stage, the average points are calculated to be added to the points of each team in the continental union classification.
In the calculation of the final points, the leaders of Asia in the FIFA rankings get 10 points, and descending in relation to other teams, according to their rankings in the international list, in return, the leaders club of Asian clubs get 90 points.
The first 3 Asian Leagues in the February classification:
1- Japan: 100 points.
2- China: 96.8 points.
3- Saudi Arabia: 95 points.
45.3
Point of the Arab Gulf League in Asia, the lowest since the start of the new classification.