One of three sides with a 100% record in the Champions League group this season, Ten Hag’s men scored 20 goals on their way to romping Group C. Erik ten Hag’s men in 2021-22 were the first side ever to win 10 games by a 5+ goal margin in a single Eredivisie campaign.īut domestic wins will only get Ajax so far, and it’s in Europe where their performances have contributed to their continued rise up our rankings.
Ajax had an expected goals difference per game of +2.0.
They won the Dutch Eredivisie by just two points, but were far and away the best team, and deserved to win by more. It’s tough being at the top.īayern’s 10th consecutive Bundesliga title only nets them so much credit, and a disappointing European exit at the hands of Villarreal – who are down in 17th in the rankings – contributes to a two-place slide.Īfter spending a horrible few months outside the top 10 towards the back end of 2021, Barcelona have stabilised under Xavi’s watch.Ījax are the real story here. It was a fourth Premier League title in five years, but European glory still eludes the Manchester side.įor Real Madrid, another La Liga title and a historic 14th European Cup sees them move… nowhere. Ironically, it is Manchester City who they knock from top position, with Pep Guardiola’s side dropping to second in the rankings. The performance across all four competitions, particularly in Europe, sees them end the season in the top spot in our power rankings, jumping up five places from the start of the season. In a different season, they really could have won all four. They went deep in every competition they entered, winning two domestic trophies along the way. Who had a season to remember and who had one to forget?ĭespite their season ending in Champions League final heartbreak and being pipped to the Premier League title by a solitary point, it was still an extremely positive season for Liverpool. Domestic and European fixtures are taken into account, as well as the strength of each league.Ĭomparing the rankings from the start of the year to the ones at the end of May essentially gives us a global league table. The ratings evolve each day based on the results of both an individual club and those of other teams within its own domestic league. The rankings rate an enormous number of teams (19,008 across 391 domestic leagues) across the globe based on a system that scores the current strongest side 100 and the weakest zero. Stats Perform’s Power Rankings can help us answer such questions. Was Bayern’s Bundesliga win any more difficult than PSG’s Ligue 1 stroll? Who had it harder domestically, Real or Milan?
Forty-two years after winning the UEFA Cup in 1980, Eintracht Frankfurt won the famous trophy again, beating Rangers in the Europa League final.īut aside from the infrequent treat of European competition, we don’t get to see clubs from different countries play each other all that often.
Bayern Munich, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain continued their domestic league dominance.Įlsewhere, it was a renaissance season for AC Milan, who won their first Scudetto in 11 years and returned to the Champions League for the first time since 2013-14. Real Madrid, the very definition of footballing heritage, won their record 35th La Liga title and a 14th European Cup/Champions League. As tends to happen, European football’s hierarchy tightened their stranglehold on silverware. Lots happened, but in some ways, lots stayed the same.
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