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The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (or simply the European Cup) and initially only gathered the top team of each country; this competition has since been expanded to gather the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country ...
The UEFA league coefficients, also known as the UEFA rankings, are used to rank the leagues of Europe, and thus determine the number of clubs from a league that will participate in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. A country's ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next; the 2009 rankings determined ...
FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1]) to each of its member and non-member countries.These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
Pages in category "Countries at the UEFA European Championship" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Each UEFA member has its own football league system, except Liechtenstein. [3] Clubs playing in each top-level league compete for the title as the country's club champions. Clubs also compete in the league and national cup competitions for places in the following season's UEFA club competitions, the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.
UEFA – UEFA European Football Championship; The Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) organises competitions between Arab League member nations. [3] All 22 national governing bodies that form UAFA are also members of both FIFA and either the AFC or CAF. National teams from UAFA member countries are noted in the list below.
The following teams are current or former UEFA members which have never qualified for the European Championship. Of these, Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 2014 ) and Israel ( 1970 ) are the only teams to qualify for the FIFA World Cup , though Israel did so as an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) member.
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...