The Champions and Europa league draws just took place a few hours ago.

In the Champions League Barcelona will face Bayern Munich and Real Madrid will struggle if they want to overcome this time Borussia Dortmund.

Cristiano Ronaldo will have an extra motivation since he already has 195 goals scored in official matches with Real Madrid and 11 in the Current Champions. See “Super Athletes – Cristiano Ronaldo: 192 Goals in 192 Games for Real Madrid!“

Two important deeds he can still achieve this season:  beating the record of 14 goals in a single Champions League season (Messi and Altafini) and passing the 200 goals mark with Real Madrid. Since he still has 8 Spanish League games to play, not out of reach also for him passing Hugo Sanchez (208 goals) and becoming the 5^th best goal scorer ever of the Spanish side.

In the Europa League Benfica will meet Fenerbachçe and Basel will play against Chelsea.

Even if the season is yet not over it is already possible to project the UEFA country ranking for the beginning of the 2013/2014 season (2008/2009 points will be dropped). On this subject read also “Soccer – UEFA’s Country Ranking: How it works and what it serves for?“.

The projected ranking goes as follows:

# 2011/12	Country	09/10	10/11	11/12	12/13	# 2013/14 Points	# 2013/14 Position	Change in rank
1	Spain	17,928	18,214	20,857	17,428	74,427	1	0
2	England	17,928	18,357	15,250	15,428	66,963	2	0
3	Germany	18,083	15,666	15,250	16,500	65,499	3	0
4	Italy	15,428	11,571	11,357	14,416	52,772	4	0
5	Portugal	10,000	18,800	11,833	11,250	51,883	5	0
6	France	15,000	10,750	10,500	11,750	48,000	6	0
8	Netherlands	9,416	11,166	13,600	4,214	38,396	7	1
7	Russia	6,166	10,916	9,750	9,750	36,582	8	-1
9	Ukraine	5,800	10,083	7,750	9,500	33,133	9	0
12	Belgium	8,700	4,600	10,100	6,500	29,900	10	2
10	Greece	7,900	7,600	7,600	4,400	27,500	11	-1
11	Turkey	7,600	4,600	5,100	9,800	27,100	12	-1
14	Switzerland	5,750	5,900	6,000	8,375	26,025	13	1
15	Austria	9,375	4,375	7,125	2,250	23,125	14	1
19	Czech Republic	4,100	3,500	5,250	8,500	21,350	15	4
17	Israel	7,250	4,625	6,000	3,250	21,125	16	1
16	Cyprus	4,250	3,125	9,125	4,000	20,500	17	-1
22	Romenia	6,083	3,166	4,333	6,800	20,382	18	4
13	Denmark	4,400	6,700	3,100	3,300	17,500	19	-6
23	Belarus	3,375	5,875	3,125	4,500	16,875	20	3

Considering the matches still to be played only two changes in the rank may occur:

Portugal may start the 2013/2014 season in 4^th place, passing Italy, if Benfica wins the Europa League and sums at least 6 points on their way to Victory (e.g. a win and a tie against Fenerbahçe: 3 points; Moving to the final (1 bonus point) and winning the final match (2 points). This seems feasible.

Germany may overcome England in 2^nd place but for that to happen both German teams need to qualify for the Champions League Final and Chelsea must be eliminated by Basel losing both games. Not expectable.

We will soon post the projections for the UEFA’s Team Ranking for the 2013/2014 season beginning as well.