Country coefficients move slowly. They are five-year totals, so a single brilliant season barely shifts them and a single bad one barely hurts. Which is what makes Greece unusual: in four completed seasons they went from 2.125 points to 14.2, and they did it without a single step backwards.
Greece, Season by Season
- 2022-23 · 2.125
- 2023-24 · 11.4
- 2024-25 · 12.687
- 2025-26 · 14.2
- 2026-27 · 1.2 (in progress)
Four consecutive increases, then a season still being played. The rise is not one club's cup run either — Greece have 5 clubs in Europe this season out of 5, and four of them carry a meaningful club coefficient of their own: Olympiakos, PAOK, Panathinaikos and AEK Athens. Depth is what moves a country total, because every club's result feeds the same number and it is divided by how many clubs entered.
The Risers
Change in season points between 2022-23 and 2025-26, the four completed seasons in the current window.
- 🇬🇷 Greece · 2.125 → 14.2 · +12.075
- 🇵🇹 Portugal · 12.5 → 20.5 · +8
- 🇵🇱 Poland · 7.75 → 15.75 · +8
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus · 5.1 → 12.156 · +7.056
- 🇩🇰 Denmark · 5.9 → 12.25 · +6.35
- 🇫🇷 France · 12.583 → 18.321 · +5.738
The Fallers
- 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein · 6.5 → 1 · -5.5
- 🇳🇱 Netherlands · 13.5 → 9.979 · -3.521
- 🇮🇱 Israel · 6.25 → 2.875 · -3.375
- 🇸🇰 Slovakia · 6 → 2.625 · -3.375
- 🇮🇹 Italy · 22.357 → 19 · -3.357
- 🇧🇪 Belgium · 14.2 → 11.4 · -2.8
The two that matter most are near the top of the table. Italy sit 2nd overall on 87.66 but their season return has slipped from 22.357 to 19. The Netherlands, 8th on 51.894, dropped from 13.5 to 9.979. Neither is in crisis — but a country coefficient is a queue, and the countries behind them are moving faster than they are.
Snapshot as of 19 August 2026, from this site's own coefficient database. The comparison uses 2022-23 and 2025-26 — the first and last completed seasons inside the current five-year window — so it measures the trend within the window that is actually being counted today. 2026-27 is excluded from the deltas because it is still being played. Country coefficients are divided by the number of clubs an association enters, which is why depth matters more than one deep run.