Football Club Tier List: The Biggest Clubs
All 32 clubs here, ranked by 235 players. Real Madrid leads: it wins 85.5% of its matchups (n = 736) and was champion in 89 of 235 brackets. Disagree? Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
AjaxEredivisie - Netherlands
Sporting CPPortugal
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Soccer/Football Clubs: the community’s best
Win rate across 5,765 head-to-head picks from 235 finished brackets. n is the number of matchups behind each win rate; only entrants with 30 or more are listed.
| # | Football club | W–L | Win rate | vs .500 | Titles | n |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real MadridLa Liga - Spain | 629–107 | 85.5% | 89 | 736 | |
| 2 | FC BarcelonaLa Liga - Spain | 493–148 | 76.9% | 35 | 641 | |
| 3 | Bayern MunichBundesliga - Germany | 375–171 | 68.7% | 12 | 546 | |
| 4 | Paris Saint-GermainLigue 1 - France | 345–176 | 66.2% | 16 | 521 | |
| 5 | LiverpoolPremier League - England | 277–167 | 62.4% | 8 | 444 | |
| 6 | AC MilanSerie A - Italy | 303–193 | 61.1% | 11 | 496 | |
| 7 | Manchester UnitedPremier League - England | 275–177 | 60.8% | 10 | 452 | |
| 8 | Manchester CityPremier League - England | 247–185 | 57.2% | 6 | 432 |
Soccer/Football Clubs: the community tier list
From 5,765 head-to-head picks in 235 finished brackets. Placed by win rate, steadied toward 50% for entrants with few matchups: S is 75% or more, A 60%, B 50%, C 40%, D 25%.
Stier, win rate 75% or more
- Real Madrid
- FC Barcelona
Atier, win rate 60% or more
- Bayern Munich
- Paris Saint-Germain
- Liverpool
- AC Milan
- Manchester United
Btier, win rate 50% or more
- Manchester City
- Arsenal
- Inter Milan
- Chelsea
- Juventus
- Atletico Madrid
Ctier, win rate 40% or more
- Borussia Dortmund
- Aston Villa
Dtier, win rate 25% or more
- Ajax
- AS Roma
- Napoli
- Sporting CP
- Santos
- Newcastle United
- Tottenham Hotspur
- FC Porto
- + 6 more
Ftier, win rate 0% or more
- Flamengo
- RB Leipzig
- Celtic
How the Soccer/Football Clubs bracket works
This football club tier list is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Real Madrid or FC Barcelona? Manchester United or Liverpool? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 32-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 32 contenders. The draw is seeded: the same for everyone today, different tomorrow, and different again whenever you press New draw. You can also play it at 8 or 32 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Manchester United and Liverpool. Updated
- Real MadridLa Liga - Spain
- FC BarcelonaLa Liga - Spain
- Manchester UnitedPremier League - England
- LiverpoolPremier League - England
- Bayern MunichBundesliga - Germany
- Manchester CityPremier League - England
- ArsenalPremier League - England
- ChelseaPremier League - England
- Paris Saint-GermainLigue 1 - France
- JuventusSerie A - Italy
- AC MilanSerie A - Italy
- Inter MilanSerie A - Italy
- Tottenham HotspurPremier League - England
- Borussia DortmundBundesliga - Germany
- Atletico MadridLa Liga - Spain
- AjaxEredivisie - Netherlands
- BenficaPrimeira Liga - Portugal
- NapoliSerie A - Italy
- AS RomaSerie A - Italy
- FC PortoPrimeira Liga - Portugal
- Newcastle UnitedPremier League - England
- Aston VillaPremier League - England
- West Ham UnitedChampionship - England
- CelticScottish Premiership
- River PlateArgentina
- Boca JuniorsArgentina
- FlamengoBrazil
- SantosBrazil
- GalatasarayTurkey
- Sporting CPPortugal
- RB LeipzigBundesliga - Germany
- EvertonPremier League - England
Tier list instead?
Load all 32 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 32 so more of the 32 contenders make the field.
- Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Questions people ask
What is the best football club?
According to 235 BracketRanker players, Real Madrid (La Liga - Spain). It wins 85.5% of its head-to-head matchups (n = 736) and was champion in 89 of 235 brackets (37.9%).
How many contenders are in the Soccer/Football Clubs bracket?
The pool holds 32 contenders. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which contenders are included?
Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Soccer/Football Clubs bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, no login is involved, and progress saves as you go.
How does this compare to a drag-and-drop tier list maker?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other contender grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two contenders that never met. If you would rather place the contenders into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
How did everyone else rank these contenders?
Every completed bracket feeds the Soccer/Football Clubs community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I build my own soccer/football clubs bracket?
Use the bracket maker: add your own contenders, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.