Club World Ranking: 

Liverpool, Anderlecht and Internacional Porto Alegre break into the "Top 10" !

MŠK Žilina - the World's Club Team of the Month for August 2010

  In spite of the defeat in the UEFA Super Cup Internazionale Milan is now the leader in the Club World Ranking, because the Lombards profited from the higher deletion value of the Catalans from August 2009. The "Reds" of Liverpool, RSC Anderlecht from Brussels and SC Internacionale Porto Alegre, that won the Copa Libertadores, were three teams who catapulted into the "Top 10". In the top part of the ranking Juventus Torino, FC do Porto, Beşiktaş İstanbul and CSKA Moscow also showed considerable improvement.

 Never before has an Israeli club been so well placed in the Club World Ranking as Hapoel Tel-Aviv (21st place) are now. And sensational improvements (by more than 150 places) in the "Top 500" were achieved by Club Santos Laguna de Torreon (Mexico), NK Hajduk Split (Croatia), Barcelona SC Guayaquil (Ecuador), Enyimba International FC Aba (Nigeria), Maccabi Tel-Aviv (Israel), CS Sfaxien (Tunesia), Lausanne-Sports (Switzerland), Arema Malang (Indonesia) and Apollon Lemeses (Cyprus).

 The World's Club Team of the Month of August is MŠK Žilina. The Slovakian team achieved the highest number of points (49) worldwide during August, remained unbeaten in the national championship and in the UEFA club competition; and managed, against strong opponents, to qualify for the group phase of the UEFA Champions League.

 In the "Top 100" there are clubs from 40 countries: 67 clubs from the UEFA, 25 from the CONMEBOL, four from the CONCACAF, four from the CAF, one from the AFC but none from the OFC. The following leagues are represented by the most clubs in the "Top 100": England (8), Spain (7), Brazil (7), Italy (5), Germany (5), Argentina (5), France (5), Belgium (4), Mexico (4) and Portugal (4). The "Top 10" for each of the four football continents - South America, Africa, Asia and CONCACAF - are as follows:

 South America:

  9. CA Estudiantes de La Plata / Argentina
  9. SC Internacional Porto Alegre / Brasil
 19. CA Vélez Sarsfield / Argentina
 20. Club Libertad Asunción / Paraguay
 26. CD Universidad de Chile Santiago / Chile
 29. Cruzeiro EC Belo Horizonte / Brasil
 30. São Paulo FC / Brasil
 32. Fluminense FC Rio de Janeiro / Brasil
 33. CA Banfield / Argentina
 42. SC Corinthians Paulista São Paulo / Brasil
 50. CR Flamengo Rio de Janeiro / Brasil
 52. Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito / Ecuador

Africa:

  71. TP Mazembe Lubumbashi / Congo DR
  87. Al-Ahly Cairo / Egypt
  94. Éntente Sportife de Sétif / Algérie
  97. Al-Hilal Omdurman / Sudan
 104. Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie, Tizi Ouzou /  Algérie
 113. Al-Ismailia / Egypt
 116. Heartland FC Oweri / Nigeria
 122. Sawahel Alexandria (Haras Hodoud) / Egypt
 129. Espérance Sportive de Tunis / Tunisie
 170. Al-Merreikh Omdurman / Sudan
 170. Al-Ittihad Tripoli / Libya
 194. Enyimba International FC Aba / Nigeria

 Asia:

  75. FC Pohang Steelers / Republic of Korea
 105. FC Gamba Osaka / Japan
 108. FK Bunyodkor Tashkent / Uzbekistan
 108. Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma FC /  Republic of Korea
 113. Al-Karama Homs / Syria
 123. Kashima Antlers FC / Japan
 131. Al-Kuwait SC Kaifan / Kuwait
 134. Al-Hilal FC Riyadh / Saudi Arabia
 165. CB Jeanbuk Hyundai Motors / Republic of Korea
 175. FM Sepahan Isfahan / Iran
 177. Al-Ittihad Club Jeddah / Saudi Arabia
 177. Zobahan Isfahan / Iran
 181. Suwon Samsung Blue-Wings FC / Republic of Korea

CONCACAF:

  36. CD Cruz Azul Ciudad de México / México
  67. Club de Futbol Monterrey / Mèxico
  78. Club Deportivo Toluca / México
  84. Pachuca CF / México
 108. Club Santos Laguna de Torreon / México
 143. UNAM Ciudad de México / México
 152. CD Guadalajara / México
 111. CA Monarcas Morelia / México
 204. CD Árabe Unido Cólon / Panamá
 225. CSD Comunicaciones Guatemala-City / Guatemala
 229. CD Marathón San Pedro Sula / Honduras
 251. Columbus Crew / USA