I have hardly a clue. This is in relation to Italy getting back the fourth UCL spot as well

well, every year each country gets a number of points depending on how it's teams perform in the CL and the EL, and the total points from the last 5 years are added and the top 3 leagues get 4 CL places

Here is an exact breakdown of the points gathered in the current season: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/ccoef2012.html

Each club of each country collects points and they are divided through the number of teams playing, so that countries with more clubs in a competition don't get an unfair advantage (hence it is a "quotient"). The point quotients of the last 5 years get added and the placement gets effective in the season after that (hence BL only has the 4 CL spots after the current season).

rwo power wrote:Here is an exact breakdown of the points gathered in the current season: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/ccoef2012.html

Each club of each country collects points and they are divided through the number of teams playing, so that countries with more clubs in a competition don't get an unfair advantage (hence it is a "quotient"). The point quotients of the last 5 years get added and the placement gets effective in the season after that (hence BL only has the 4 CL spots after the current season).

Going to murder everyone in Roma's defence. That result is going to render anything else Italian clubs do absolutely useless when it is averaged out.

By the way, here are two rather good tables for the full country ranking:

http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/crank2012.html
http://www.5-jahres-wertung.de/APD/Online/5JW.php (German, but really extensive)