The club coefficient is a five-year rolling total, and that is the whole story here. Bayern München have just moved to the top of it for the first time in years — not because they suddenly got better, but because they were already good for long enough that everyone else's great seasons started ageing out of the window before theirs did.
Season by Season
Every completed season in the database, with the points Bayern earned in Europe that year. The 2026/27 figure is still accumulating — the season has only just started.
- 2018-19 · 20
- 2019-20 · 36
- 2020-21 · 27
- 2021-22 · 26
- 2022-23 · 27
- 2023-24 · 28
- 2024-25 · 30.25
- 2025-26 · 39.25 ★
- 2026-27 · 6 (in progress)
The Case for Consistency
Across 8 completed seasons Bayern's worst return was 20 points, in 2018-19. Their best was 39.25, in 2025-26. That is a narrow band for a decade of European football, and it is exactly what the coefficient rewards. A club that wins the competition once and exits early four times can end up behind a club that reaches the last eight every single year.
What It Buys Them This Season
Top seeding. Bayern are in Pot 1 for the 2026/27 Champions League league-phase draw on 27 August — a pot that was mathematically settled weeks before the play-offs even finished, because no club left in qualifying could reach the ninth seed. Pot 1 means Bayern avoid Real Madrid, PSG, Liverpool, Inter, Manchester City, Arsenal, Barcelona and Atlético Madrid entirely in the draw.
Germany as a whole sits 4th in the country coefficient on 80.12, with 7 clubs in Europe. Bayern are the single biggest contributor to that number, and the country total is what decides how many German clubs get Champions League places at all.
Snapshot as of 14 August 2026. All figures are from this site's own coefficient database: the season-by-season points are stitched together from several five-year windows, since each window only exposes its own five seasons. The 2026/27 total is a running figure and will change as the season is played. Pot 1 seeding refers to the Champions League league-phase draw on 27 August.