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5-Year Ranking: Austria already with more points than in 2025/26

Despite a major setback, Austria's representatives played very high-scoring qualification phases. Nevertheless, little progress is being made.

5-Year Ranking: Austria already with more points than in 2025/26
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After the end of the qualification phases for the 2026/27 UEFA competitions, Austria has already accumulated more points for the 5-year ranking than during the entire 2025/26 international season.

Despite SK Rapid's extremely disappointing exit, they currently hold 4.2 points, making it the fifth-highest among all nations. In the previous season, Austria only managed a total of 4.1 points, causing them to fall significantly in the UEFA ranking.

As Wiener Austria also failed in the Conference League qualifiers, Red-White-Red is still represented by three teams in the form of LASK (Champions League), SK Sturm, and FC Salzburg (both Europa League) and has at least 24 league phase matches to further increase their tally.

A win in a league phase brings two points divided by the number of participants, which means 0.4 in Austria's case. A draw is worth 0.2 points according to this formula.

Additionally, there are bonus points in the various competitions for achieving a certain rank.

An overview of bonus points in the league phases of the various competitions (text continues below):

League Phase PositionChampions LeagueEuropa LeagueConference League
11264
211,755,753,75
311,55,53,5
411,255,253,25
51153
610,754,752,75
710,54,52,5
810,254,252,25
91042
109,753,751,875
119,53,51,75
129,253,251,625
13931,5
148,752,751,375
158,52,51,25
168,252,251,125
17821
187,751,750,875
197,51,50,75
207,251,250,625
21710,5
226,750,750,375
236,50,50,25
246,250,250,125
25600
26600
27600
28600
29600
30600
31600
32600
33600
34600
35600
36600

15th Place Remains a Distant Dream

Austria has now moved up to 17th place. However, an almost insurmountable 6.543 points are still needed to reach the important 15th place (five starting spots, two of which are in Champions League qualification).

This position is still held by Cyprus, which only has two teams remaining in the competition with Omonia Nicosia (Europa League) and Pafos FC (Conference League), but only has to divide its points by four.

Denmark with a Superb Starting Position

The big winners from Austria's wider group of competitors are the Danes (14th), who have placed all (!) four of their participants in the Conference League and will collect significant points there, as well as the Norwegians (13th), who still have four of their five starters remaining, with two in the Champions League and one each in the Europa League and the Conference League.

However, both Nordic nations would have been out of reach for Austria anyway, with a lead of over ten points each, and will continue to be so for years to come.

The Others Have Faltered

Otherwise, none of Austria's competitors have managed to get more than two clubs into a league phase. Switzerland (16th) has two teams in the Conference League, while Hungary (17th) has only one in the Europa League.

Scotland (19th) sends one team each to the Europa League and the Conference League, likewise Croatia (21st). The Scots must divide their points by five, and the Croatians by four.

Nations like Sweden (20th) and Romania (22nd), each with only one team in the Conference League, are not a real threat to Austria.

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