Manchester United have been rated the 34th best team in the world behind the likes of Young Boys, PAOK and Eibar.

Football analysts at FiveThirtyEight came up with a system that saw Everton, who finished 12 points behind the Red Devils last season, eight places ahead in the table rankings.

The football researchers produced a Soccer Power Index (SPI) that ranks teams by giving them an offensive and defensive rating.
GLOBAL CLUB SOCCER TOP 40 RANKINGS BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
1 - Manchester City

2 - Bayern Munich

3 - Liverpool

4 - Barcelona

5 - Chelsea

6 - PSG

7- Real Madrid

8 - Atletico Madrid

9 - Olympiacos

10- Ajax

11 - Atalanta

12 - Tottenham

13 - Leverkusen

14 - Inter Milan

15 - Juventus

16 - Valencia

17 - Porto

18 - Napoli

19 - Eibar

20 - RB Leipzig

21 - Getafe

22 - PAOK

23 - Sevilla

24 - RB Salzburg

25 - Borussia Dortmund

26 - Everton

27 - Athletic Bilbao

28 - Arsenal

29 - Real Sociedad

30 - Benfica

31 - Leganes

32 - Hoffenheim

33 - Young Boys

34 - Manchester United

35 - Lyon

36 - Krasnodar

37 - PSV

38 - Villarreal

39 - Real Betis

40 - Leicester City
The ratings refer to the number of goals the team would be expected to score against an average team on a neutral field and a defensive rating that represents the number of goals they would be expected to concede.

These ratings produce an SPI rating which gives a percentage of available points - a win is worth three, a draw worth one, and a loss worth none.

Manchester City were ranked first with Bayern Munich, Liverpool, Barcelona and Chelsea making up the top five.

PSG were ranked sixth, Real Madrid seventh, Tottenham 12th, Juventus 15th and Arsenal 28th.

Tacoma Defiance, who are in the USA's second division, were ranked the worst team in the world.
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Unfortunately, this doesn’t determine who is going to win the champions league

Where are Enyimba FC and Kano Pillars?

Man City is the best truly, closely followed by Liverpool.

BTW, I kept scrolling down for Man Utd, had to stop when my eyes started paining me.

Me, looking for Manchester united on the list.

Anyways, for the post to have started with Manchester United, it means the brand is still a solid one.
Or are they living in past glory ?

I thought the winner of Champion league suppose to be rated no.1
Just my personal opinion sha

suprise seeing how some teams are ranked.

Any team Guardiola touches becomes "Almighty"