Liverpool, Barcelona, Man Utd: Data analysts rank the world's top 50 clubs right now

The Premier League, Champions League, La Liga and countless other major competitions have entered the business end of the 2021/22 season.

With just three months of the campaign left to play, the big winners and losers of the European men’s game are becoming clearer and clearer as leagues begin to wrap up and cup finals peer over the horizon.

Manchester City are eyeing a fourth Premier League title in just five seasons, Paris Saint-Germain look nailed on for Ligue 1 glory and a tenth consecutive Bundesliga crown is Bayern Munich’s to lose.

Elsewhere, the two Milan clubs are slugging it out for dominance in Serie A, Real Madrid and Sevilla are going toe-to-toe in La Liga and who’s going to win the Champions League is anybody’s guess.

As such, not only is there plenty for football fans to be excited and intrigued about, but it’s also a great time for us to pause and take stock of world football’s biggest powerhouses right now.

With the cutting edge of the Champions League still to come and so many top teams separated by national borders and divisions, it’s not as easy as you might think to specifically order the best clubs in the business right now.

But don’t worry; you don’t have to because the data analysts over at FiveThirtyEight crunch the numbers after every game to maintain their fascinating “Global Club Soccer Rankings”.

Informed by a ‘Soccer Power Index’ algorithm, which you can learn more about here, the rankings are one of the most comprehensive measures of a club’s strength with ratings given both for their attack and defence.

In other words, it’s about as close as statistics can bring us to modelling the world’s best football clubs at any one time, so be sure to check out their top 50 in the men’s game right now