For two years this site has answered two questions: which country is where in the UEFA coefficient table, and which club is where. Both answers are built the same way - from real match results, round by round, with the arithmetic shown. Today there is a third question with the same kind of answer: which player.
One number, built only from countable actions
The European Player Coefficient (EPC) is a single number per player per season. It is not an opinion score and it is not borrowed from anyone else's match rating. It is the sum of what a player did on the pitch: goals, assists, shots on target, key passes, dribbles completed, duels won, tackles, interceptions, blocks, saves, clean sheets - and the things that cost his team, from fouls and cards to missed and conceded penalties.
The formula is printed on the page, not hidden behind it
Each match produces a raw score from those actions. That raw score is then multiplied three times, and every multiplier is visible on the ranking page's "How it works" tab, read straight from the server that does the calculation:
- Competition. A Champions League action counts fully; Europa League is 0.80 and Conference League 0.65, so the three can share one table without pretending they are equally hard.
- Round. The league phase is the baseline; a final is worth 1.75 times as much, a semi-final 1.55, a quarter-final 1.40.
- Opponent. This is the part no other player ranking has: the multiplier comes from the opponent club's own five-year UEFA coefficient, which this site already computes for the club ranking.
That last one matters more than it sounds. A goal against the strongest side in the competition is worth roughly 35% more than the same goal against the weakest one - and because the club coefficient is already ours, the adjustment is not a guess, it is the same number that decides seeding.
2025-26: who actually did the most
Every bar is a season total. Tap any player on the ranking page to open his match log and see the arithmetic line by line.
The top of the list is not simply the top scorer list, and that is the point. A player who plays deeper, wins the ball back and creates chances against strong opposition climbs past a striker who scored the same number of goals against weaker ones - and a goalkeeper with a run of clean sheets appears where a goals-only table would never place him.
The competition filter matters here too. K. Kvaratskhelia leads the Champions League table, but the Conference League has its own top scorer of coefficient points - Ismaila Sarr on 96.0 - and a combined table alone would have buried him.
And a ranking the country coefficient can never produce
The country coefficient measures a nation's clubs. It cannot say anything about a nation's players, because a Turkish midfielder at Benfica earns points for Portugal, not for Türkiye. The Nations tab flips that around: it adds up what a country's players did, wherever in Europe they were standing when they did it.
Spanien
Frankreich
England
Deutschland
Niederlande
Portugal
Italien
Belgien
NorwegenNations outside UEFA are shown too, and marked as such on the ranking page - a large share of the football played in these competitions is played by them.
Read the per-player column rather than the total and the table changes character completely: the biggest leagues send the most players, but they do not always send the most productive ones.
What it does not cover, stated plainly
Player-level match data does not exist for the preliminary and qualifying rounds. The ranking therefore begins at the play-off round and covers the league or group phase and the whole knockout stage. That is deliberately a different match set from the country and club coefficients, which do count qualifying, and the ranking page says so at the top rather than quietly leaving it out.
Where to find it
"Player Ranking" is now in the main menu. Filter by competition to get a clean Champions League, Europa League or Conference League table, switch between a single season and the five-year window, filter by position, and open any row for the player's season-by-season record, his statistical profile and his full match log. Club pages carry the same numbers too: at the foot of every team page there is now a list of who earned that club its European points. The archive currently holds 141,240 appearances by 25,356 players across 9 seasons.