Riyadh (DBA
Riyadh (dpa) Saudi Arabia topped the Asian Football Confederation’s classification of clubs participating in the continental championships, according to the classification issued by the Continental Confederation today, Monday. Today, Monday, the official account of the Asian Confederation on Twitter published the classification centers that include calculating the results of the clubs participating in the Asian championships in the last four years, which is updated annually so that the final classification for the last four years is done according to the winning and draw rate for each participating club.
Saudi Arabia came first with 57.3 points, South Korea came second with 54.7 points, Japan came third with 53.5 points, then Iran came fourth with 44.5 points, while Qatar came in fifth with 43,050 points. Then Uzbekistan is in sixth place with 37 points, China is in seventh with 34 points, while the UAE is in eighth place with 30 points, and then Thailand with 29.7 points.
The AFC relies on the annual classification in calculating the number of clubs participating in each country, where the maximum number of seats is three and an Asian supplement, while the minimum number is half a seat, which allows playing in the Asian playoff before the start of the group stage of the AFC Champions League.
Saudi Arabia had ranked second in the 2014 and 2015 seasons, before falling to third place in the 2016 season and fourth in the 2017 season to record the worst classification of the 2018 season by reaching seventh and fourth place in the 2019 season, and third in the 2020 season, to return to the top in the 2021 season thanks to the results of Saudi clubs The championship and the career of Al Hilal, which won the AFC Champions League in 2019 and 2021, which contributed to being at the top of the Asian continent’s club rankings.
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