Maintained by Erdinç Sivritepe Last updated: June 8
Fair Play UEFA sends officials to all UEFA organized competitions. These officials evaluate the games on several criteria like yellow and red cards(10), Positive Play(10), Respecting the opponent(5), Respecting the referee(5), Behaviour of the team officials(5), and Behaviour of the crowd(5). These notes are converted to a grade on 10 point base and all games have a Fair Play value out of ten. The Fair Play values of all the games played by a country is added and then divided into the number of games played. This gives the average Fair Play Point for each country. UEFA then ranks the countries according to these points. A country must play at least 25 games to be ranked. The country with the highest point gets an extra entry to the UEFA Cup. The points are usually very close, so UEFA draws two names from the pot of any country with a Fair Play rating of 8.000 or higher. These two countries also get an extra UEFA Cup entries. Each country also has a national Fair Play competition. The Fair Play entries are used by the winners of these national competitions. The Fair Play entries start the UEFA Cup from the Qualification Round. UEFA also gives away 150,000 Swiss frans prize to the countries who lost the draw. The winner of last years' competition was Sweden and Sweden's Fair Play winner IFK Norrköping will play in the UEFA Cup. Belgium and Spain won the draw this year. K Lierse SK from Belgium and Rayo Vallecano Madrid from Spain will play in the UEFA Cup. The Ranking: 1 - Sweden 55 games 8.279 points 2 - Ireland 49 8.258 3 - Finland 48 8.203 4 - Ukraine 59 8.191 5 - Denmark 45 8.176 6 - Scotland 54 8.149 7 - England 110 8.117 8 - Russia 63 8.112 9 - Belgium 51 8.106 10 - Iceland 34 8.100 11 - Spain 134 8.089 12 - Wales 34 8.071 13 - Norway 64 8.059 14 - Switzerland 54 8.023 15 - Germany 110 8.008 16 - Belarus 39 7.993 17 - Slovakia 59 7.990 18 - Portugal 71 7.974 19 - Moldova 29 7.972 20 - Latvia 35 7.967 21 - Estonia 34 7.965 22 - Czech Republic 76 7.922 23 - Hungary 53 7.911 24 - Poland 60 7.897 25 - France 117 7.886 26 - Armenia 29 7.883 27 - Netherlands 78 7.851 28 - Georgia 33 7.844 29 - Yugoslavia 48 7.831 30 - Lithuania 34 7.813 31 - Greece 69 7.790 32 - Croatia 53 7.785 33 - Israel 45 7.742 34 - Turkey 62 7.735 35 - Italy 127 7.688 36 - Azerbaijan 27 7.662 37 - Bosnia and Herzegovina 36 7.634 38 - Romania 43 7.606 39 - Albania 25 7.592 40 - Austria 50 7.584 41 - FYR Macedonia 34 7.510 42 - Bulgaria 30 7.508 43 - Slovenia 48 7.412 NR - Faroe Islands 21 8.085 NR - Luxembourg 21 7.809 NR - Northern Ireland 23 7.731 NR - San Marino 5 7.657 NR - Liechtenstein 11 7.603 NR - Malta 23 7.599 NR - Cyprus 24 7.458 NR - Andorra 16 7.457 The ranking is obtained UEFA web site