UEFA Fair Play ranking

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The UEFA Fair Play ranking is used by UEFA to grant three berths for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. This ranking has existed since 1995, but awards in terms of extra berths for the first qualifying round are given since 1999.

Contents 1 Clubs 2 Ranking 2.1 Criteria 3 UEFA Fair Play winners 4 Notes and references

[edit] Clubs

The highest finishing clubs in the national Fair Play rankings not yet participating in either the UEFA Champions League or the UEFA Cup are potential contenders for the three berths left. The club from the association which won the Fair Play ranking qualifies automatically for the first qualifying round of the UEFA Cup. The two other teams will be drawn out of the clubs from the associations that have reached the threshold of minimum games and have a score of at least 8.

[edit] Ranking

All representative teams from a football association are responsible for the score of the fair play ranking of that association. This includes match of all national teams and all clubs in all UEFA competitions. The ranking is composed from June 1 until May 31 the next year. The criteria for the ranking is of course Fair Play.

[edit] Criteria

Teams are judged on the following criteria:

• Yellow and Red cards: If no cards are shown the score will be 10. For every yellow card will deduct this total by 1. A red card will cost a team 3 points in the ranking. If the red card is the result of a second yellow card the deductions of the two yellow card will be ignored. But if a player gets a direct red card after he got a yellow card earlier, the yellow card will be counted as a deduction. This score could become negative.
• Positive play: For positive play a team can score a maximum of 10 point and a minimum of 1 point.
• Respect to the opponent: e.g. returning the ball to the opponent at a throw-in: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point.
• Respect to the referee: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point.
• Behaviour of the team officials: maximum 5 points, minimum 1 point.
• Behaviour of the fans: maximum of 5 point and a minimum of 1 point

NB: this criterion is ignored when the number of fans is negligible e.g. if there are no fans at all or because of penalty that was given by the UEFA.

The total number of points will be divided by the maximum number of points (40 or 35) and multiplied by 10 which will result in a score between 0 and 10.

[edit] UEFA Fair Play winners

Year	Winning Nation	Nominated Team	Drawn				Notes
			Nation	Nominated Team	Nation	Nominated Team
1995	Norway		England		Luxembourg		[1]
1996	Sweden		Russia		Finland		[1]
1997	Norway		England		Sweden		[1]
1998	England	Aston Villa	Finland		Norway		[1]
1999	Scotland	Kilmarnock FC	Norway	Bodø/Glimt	Estonia	JK Viljandi Tulevik	[1]
2000	Sweden	IFK Norrköping	Belgium	K. Lierse S.K.	Spain	Rayo Vallecano	[1]
2001	Belarus	FC Shakhtyor	Finland	MyPa	Slovakia	FK Matador Púchov	[1]
2002	Norway	SK Brann	England	Ipswich Town	Czech Republic	SK Sigma Olomouc	[2]
2003	England	Manchester City	France	RC Lens	Denmark	Esbjerg fB	[3]
2004	Sweden	Östers IF	Armenia	FC MIKA	Ukraine	FC Illychivets Mariupol	[4]
2005	Norway	Viking FK	Germany	FSV Mainz 05	Denmark	Esbjerg fB	[5]
2006	Sweden	Gefle IF	Belgium	K.S.V. Roeselare	Norway	SK Brann	[6]
2007	Sweden	BK Häcken	Finland	MyPa	Norway	Lillestrøm SK	[7][8]
2008	England	Manchester City	Germany	Hertha BSC Berlin	Denmark	FC Nordsjælland[9]	[10][11]

[edit] Notes and references