In the new ranking list of the best teams on the planet according to the international institute of football history and statistics, two of the five Ukrainian clubs present in the TOP-350 list managed to improve their places thanks to successful play in European cups.
Thus, Kyiv's "Dynamo" rose from the 86th position to the 57th, and Dnipropetrovsk's "Dnipro" jumped from the 158th to the 115th. Donetsk's "Shakhtar", which plays flawlessly in the national championship but continues to disappoint in the Champions League, retained its 94th position. Two more representatives of the Donetsk region – "Metalurh" and "Illichivets" – dropped in the list of the best teams in the world. "Illichivets" moved down 17 places from the 278th position, and "Metalurh" "fell" from the 236th position to the 310th.
The new leader of the ranking was England's "Manchester United", which pushed "Real" from first place.
IFFHS ranking 1. (3.) Manchester United (England) - 284.0 2. (1.) Real (Spain) - 283.0 3. (2.) Valencia (Spain) - 280.0 4. (6.) Arsenal (England) - 264.0 5. (9.) Boca Juniors (Argentina) - 256.0 6. (11.) Milan (Italy) - 254.0 7. (4.) Sao Paulo (Brazil) - 254.0 8. (8.) River Plate (Argentina) - 248.0 9. (9.) Juventus (Italy) - 246.0 10. (7.) Porto (Portugal) - 245.5 16. (18.) Barcelona (Spain) - 229.0 19. (13.) Celtic (Scotland) – 211.5 46. (33.) Roma (Italy) - 152.0 57. (86.) DYNAMO (UKRAINE) - 133.5 94. (94.) SHAKHTAR (UKRAINE) - 114.0 104. 110.) Bayer (Germany) - 110.0 115. (158.) DNIPRO (UKRAINE) - 107.5 295. (278.) ILLICHIVETS (UKRAINE) - 67.0 310. (236.) METALURH (DONETSK, UKRAINE) - 64.5.