UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking

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Template:Short description The UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking was used by UEFA from 1995 to the 2015–16 season to grant three berths for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League. Since that time it has granted a monetary prize to winning associations.

Qualification system

1995–1998

The three highest-performing associations in the UEFA Fair Play ranking were given an extra UEFA Cup berth for the best-finishing team in their top division who have not qualified for the following season's UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup or UEFA Cup. Which round the teams started from depended on their association's UEFA coefficient.

1999–2008

The highest-finishing club in the Fair Play rankings of a qualifying association, not yet participating in either the UEFA Champions League or the UEFA Cup (the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup became defunct after 1998–99), were potential contenders for the three remaining berths. The club from the association which won the Fair Play ranking qualified automatically for the First Qualifying Round of the UEFA Cup. The two other associations were drawn from the rest that have reached the threshold of minimum games and had a score of at least 8.0.

2009–2015

The three highest placed national associations in the UEFA Respect Fair Play ranking each automatically gained an extra qualification berth for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League, providing they exceeded the threshold of games played, and had a minimum average score of 8.0. These berths were then allocated to the highest placed club in that association's own Fair Play league that had not yet qualified a UEFA competition.

2015–present

Based upon a UEFA Executive Committee decision, approved in December 2014, from the 2015–16 season onwards, Fair Play no longer grants entry to the Europa League, instead only netting the victorious association a cash prize to be put towards "fair play or respect-themed projects".[1] It is assessed on three categories: overall fair play, year-on-year fair play (most improved association) and spectator behaviour, with each association being scored and an association being declared the winner for each category. No association can win more than one category, meaning that on receiving one category award, an association becomes ineligible to win either of the other two, with the three categories being ranked in importance so that it can be determined which category takes preference.

Ranking

All representative teams from a football association are responsible for the score of the Fair Play ranking of that association. This includes matches of all national teams and all clubs in all UEFA competitions. The ranking assessment period was also changed in 2015, and is now from 1 July to 30 June the following year. For the transitional season of 2015–16, the ranking assessment period covered all matches between 1 May 2015 and 30 June 2016).[2]

Criteria

Teams are judged on the following criteria:

  • Yellow and red cards: If no cards are shown the score will be 10. Every yellow card will deduct this total by 1. A red card will cost a team 3 points in the ranking. If the red card is the result of a second yellow card, the deductions of the second yellow card will be ignored. But if a player gets a direct red card after he got a yellow card earlier, the yellow card will be counted as a deduction. This score could become negative.
  • Positive play: e.g. attacking tactics, acceleration of the game, efforts to gain time, and continued pursuit of goals. A team can score a maximum of 10 points and a minimum of 1 point
  • Respect to the opponent: e.g. returning the ball to the opponent at a throw-in, helping an injured opponent: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point
  • Respect to the referee: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point
  • Behaviour of the team officials: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point
  • Behaviour of the fans: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point
NB: this criterion is ignored when the number of fans is negligible e.g. if there are no fans at all or because of penalty that was given by the UEFA

The total number of points are divided by the maximum number of points, 40 (or 35 if there are a negligible number of fans), and multiplied by 10 which will result in a score between 0 and 10. The score is calculated to two decimal points and not rounded up.

2014–15 final ranking

The ranking below covers matches from 1 May 2014 to 30 April 2015 and is the final ranking.[3]

The top three associations (Netherlands, England, Republic of Ireland) gained an extra qualification berth for the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round.[4]

Rank Member association Total points Matches played
1 Template:Flagicon Netherlands 8.151 110
2 Template:Flagicon England 8.146 160
3 Template:Flagicon Republic of Ireland 8.144 66
4 Template:Flagicon Finland 8.141 68
5 Template:Flagicon Denmark 8.128 88
6 Template:Flagicon Germany 8.123 146
7 Template:Flagicon Norway 8.113 71
8 Template:Flagicon Iceland 8.089 53
9 Template:Flagicon Sweden 8.087 110
10 Template:Flagicon Scotland 8.083 95
11 Template:Flagicon Spain 8.039 159
12 Template:Flagicon Austria 8.015 71
13 Template:Flagicon Northern Ireland 8.003 47
14 Template:Flagicon Switzerland 8.001 96
15 Template:Flagicon Belgium 7.967 107
16 Template:Flagicon France 7.960 115
17 Template:Flagicon Italy 7.953 147
18 Template:Flagicon Czech Republic 7.928 75
19 Template:Flagicon Wales 7.924 52
20 Template:Flagicon Poland 7.911 72
21 Template:Flagicon Kazakhstan 7.879 59
22 Template:Flagicon Russia 7.872 126
23 Template:Flagicon Faroe Islands 7.868 43
24 Template:Flagicon Armenia 7.864 72
25 Template:Flagicon Slovenia 7.848 71
26 Template:Flagicon Israel 7.843 55
27 Template:Flagicon Lithuania 7.824 55
28 Template:Flagicon Romania 7.811 80
29 Template:Flagicon Cyprus 7.790 69
30 Template:Flagicon Portugal 7.768 128
31 Template:Flagicon Slovakia 7.765 76
32 Template:Flagicon Croatia 7.760 86
33 Template:Flagicon Estonia 7.753 52
34 Template:Flagicon Serbia 7.749 76
35 Template:Flagicon Bosnia and Herzegovina 7.742 55
36 Template:Flagicon Hungary 7.738 68
37 Template:Flagicon Ukraine 7.700 122
38 Template:Flagicon Greece 7.694 84
39 Template:Flagicon Georgia 7.684 45
40 Template:Flagicon Belarus 7.678 83
41 Template:Flagicon Moldova 7.642 53
42 Template:Flagicon Turkey 7.615 90
43 Template:Flagicon Malta 7.600 45
44 Template:Flagicon Montenegro 7.592 44
45 Template:Flagicon Latvia 7.565 49
46 Template:Flagicon Macedonia 7.500 51
47 Template:Flagicon Azerbaijan 7.441 59
48 Template:Flagicon Albania 7.348 38
50 Template:Flagicon Gibraltar 7.809 21
51 Template:Flagicon Liechtenstein 7.767 18
52 Template:Flagicon Luxembourg 7.720 24
53 Template:Flagicon San Marino 7.485 24
54 Template:Flagicon Andorra 6.922 32

Cut-off: 37 matches played
Group 1: 37 or more matches played; Group 2: fewer than 37 matches played.

Winners (1995–2015)

The UEFA Fair Play winners in the rankings by year since 1995 to 2015 were:

Year First association Nominated team Second association Nominated team Third association Nominated team References
1995 Template:Flagicon Norway Viking Template:Flagicon England Leeds United Template:Flagicon Luxembourg Avenir Beggen [5]
1996 Template:Flagicon Sweden Malmö Template:Flagicon Russia CSKA Moscow Template:Flagicon Finland Jazz Pori Template:Refn[5]
1997 Template:Flagicon Norway Brann Template:Flagicon England Aston Villa Template:Flagicon Sweden Örebro [5]
1998 Template:Flagicon England Aston Villa Template:Flagicon Finland FinnPa Template:Flagicon Norway Molde [5]
Year Top association Nominated team Drawn References
Association Nominated team Association Nominated team
1999 Template:Flagicon Scotland Kilmarnock Template:Flagicon Norway Bodø/Glimt Template:Flagicon Estonia JK Viljandi Tulevik [5]
2000 Template:Flagicon Sweden Norrköping Template:Flagicon Belgium Lierse Template:Flagicon Spain Rayo Vallecano [5]
2001 Template:Flagicon Belarus Shakhtyor Template:Flagicon Finland MYPA Template:Flagicon Slovakia Matador Púchov [5]
2002 Template:Flagicon Norway SK Brann Template:Flagicon England Ipswich Town Template:Flagicon Czech Republic Sigma Olomouc [6]
2003 Template:Flagicon England Manchester City Template:Flagicon France Lens Template:Flagicon Denmark Esbjerg [7]
2004 Template:Flagicon Sweden Öster Template:Flagicon Armenia Mika Template:Flagicon Ukraine Illichivets Mariupol [8][9][10]
2005 Template:Flagicon Norway Viking Template:Flagicon Germany Mainz 05 Template:Flagicon Denmark Esbjerg [11]
2006 Template:Flagicon Sweden Gefle Template:Flagicon Belgium Roeselare Template:Flagicon Norway Brann [12]
2007 Template:Flagicon Sweden Häcken Template:Flagicon Finland MYPA Template:Flagicon Norway Lillestrøm [13][14]
2008 Template:Flagicon England Manchester City Template:Flagicon Germany Hertha BSC Template:Flagicon Denmark Nordsjælland [15][16][17]
Year Top association Nominated team Second association Nominated team Third association Nominated team References
2009 Template:Flagicon Norway Rosenborg Template:Flagicon Denmark Randers Template:Flagicon Scotland Motherwell [18]
2010 Template:Flagicon Sweden Gefle Template:Flagicon Denmark Randers Template:Flagicon Finland MYPA (a) [19]
2011 Template:Flagicon Norway Aalesund Template:Flagicon England Fulham Template:Flagicon Sweden Häcken [20][21]
2012 Template:Flagicon Norway Stabæk Template:Flagicon Finland MYPA Template:Flagicon Netherlands Twente [22]
2013 Template:Flagicon Sweden Gefle Template:Flagicon Norway Tromsø Template:Flagicon Finland Mariehamn [23]
2014 Template:Flagicon Norway Tromsø Template:Flagicon Sweden Brommapojkarna Template:Flagicon Finland MYPA [24]
2015 Template:Flagicon Netherlands Go Ahead Eagles Template:Flagicon England West Ham United Template:Flagicon Republic of Ireland UCD [4]

Notes:

  • Teams that performed the best in a given year when compared to the other two Fair Play qualifiers, either by advancing further or earning more points, are listed in italic.
  • (a): Both Randers and MYPA made to the 3rd Qualification round however MYPA had more wins in the tournament.

Most wins

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Best performances

The furthest that a team progressed from a fair-play entry was the quarter-finals, achieved by Aston Villa (1997–98), Rayo Vallecano (2000–01) and Manchester City (2008–09), with Manchester City being the only team to have progressed beyond the group stage since this was introduced in 2004–05.[25]

Winners (since 2015–16 season)

The UEFA Fair Play winners by category in the rankings (with updated format) are:

Season Overall fair play Best spectators Best progression Prize money Reference
2015–16 Template:Flagicon Norway Template:Flagicon Estonia Template:Flagicon Belarus €50,000 for each [26]
2016–17 Template:Flagicon Iceland Template:Flagicon Finland Template:Flagicon Georgia [27]
2017–18 Template:Flagicon Finland Template:Flagicon Faroe Islands Template:Flagicon Northern Ireland €50,000 for each [28]
2018–19 Template:Flagicon Georgia [29]

See also

Notes

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