Serie A continues to battle with the English Premier League for second place in UEFA’s nation coefficient.
After matchday three of the Champions League, England has a lead of just 0.022 coefficient points over Italy, with both teams still having six teams in European competition.
The English total over five years is 68.462, compared to 68.440 for Italy.
So far this season Serie A sides have picked up 6.357 points, while team from the Premier League have 5.642.
Serie A continues to battle with the English Premier League for second place in UEFA’s nation coefficient.
After matchday three of the Champions League, England has a lead of just 0.022 coefficient points over Italy, with both teams still having six teams in European competition.
The English total over five years is 68.462, compared to 68.440 for Italy.
So far this season Serie A sides have picked up 6.357 points, while team from the Premier League have 5.642.
Lazio and Milan are both in action in the Europa League tonight, as are Arsenal and Chelsea.
While Italy has closed the gap this season though, Serie A sides will have to heavily outperform the Premier League.
Next season the 2014-15 season, where Juventus reached the Champions League final and Napoli and Fiorentina reached the Europa League semis, will drop off the five-year average.
That will see a 5.429 swing to the Premier League.
Neither Serie A nor the Premier League has any hope of catching Spain in the near future, with La Liga sitting on 90.426 points.
The top four sides in the coefficient are automatically given four Champions League group stage places, with Germany currently in fourth, over 10 points ahead of France.