How the Soccer/Football Clubs bracket works
Rank football clubs without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — Real Madrid or FC Barcelona? Manchester United or Liverpool? — and after 31 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 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 contenders in the field. Because the draw is shuffled, two people playing the same bracket rarely face the same matchups. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Manchester United and Liverpool.
Real Madrid
La Liga - Spain
FC Barcelona
La Liga - Spain
Manchester United
Premier League - England
Liverpool
Premier League - England
Bayern Munich
Bundesliga - Germany
Manchester City
Premier League - England
Arsenal
Premier League - England
Chelsea
Premier League - England
Paris Saint-Germain
Ligue 1 - France
Juventus
Serie A - Italy
AC Milan
Serie A - Italy
Inter Milan
Serie A - Italy
Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League - England
Borussia Dortmund
Bundesliga - Germany
Atletico Madrid
La Liga - Spain
Ajax
Eredivisie - Netherlands
Benfica
Primeira Liga - Portugal
Napoli
Serie A - Italy
AS Roma
Serie A - Italy
FC Porto
Primeira Liga - Portugal
Newcastle United
Premier League - England
Aston Villa
Premier League - England
West Ham United
Premier League - England
Celtic
Scottish Premiership
River Plate
Argentina
Boca Juniors
Argentina
Flamengo
Brazil
Santos
Brazil
Galatasaray
Turkey
Sporting CP
Portugal
RB Leipzig
Bundesliga - Germany
Everton
Premier League - England
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 9 completed Soccer/Football Clubs brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
Real Madrid
28W - 5L · won 4 brackets
85%
win rate
- 2
FC Barcelona
24W - 8L · won 1 bracket
75%
win rate
- 3
AC Milan
24W - 9L
73%
win rate
- 4
Bayern Munich
19W - 8L · won 1 bracket
70%
win rate
- 5
Manchester City
17W - 8L · won 1 bracket
68%
win rate
- 6
Liverpool
16W - 8L · won 1 bracket
67%
win rate
- 7
Manchester United
16W - 9L
64%
win rate
- 8
Paris Saint-Germain
14W - 8L · won 1 bracket
64%
win rate
- 9
Chelsea
12W - 9L
57%
win rate
- 10
Juventus
12W - 9L
57%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- 2The default run puts all 32 contenders in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3Use undo the moment you regret a pick. One reflex answer in an early round can knock out a favourite before it gets going.
Soccer/Football Clubs bracket FAQ
How many contenders are in the Soccer/Football Clubs bracket?
The pool holds 32 contenders. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. 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 rank football clubs take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. It works the same on a phone as on a desktop, and no login is involved.
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 31 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.