The global football club power rankings have been released by a leading data analyst, Nate Silver.
Silver was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world after correctly predicting the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 US elections - but his background is actually in sports stats.
The 41-year-old rose to fame for developing a system for forecasting performances and career development of Major League Baseball stars before he launched the blog Five Thirty Eight in 2008, using it to correctly call the subsequent two US elections.
His website has now created a power ranking of 634 clubs across the globe.
It has been devised by an SPI rating, which are the website’s best estimate of a team’s overall strength, which, in pre-season, is based on two factors - how the team performed last season alongside the value of players they have signed.
The highest ranked Championship club is Fulham in 60th, whilst the lowest is Charlton Athletic in 362nd. Middlesbrough are 175th, putting them above Derby County and Nottingham Forest.
A list of the Championship clubs and where they rank
60 - Fulham
102 - Leeds United
130 - Huddersfield Town
152 - Stoke City
154 - Brentford
155 - West Brom
160 - Cardiff City
165 - Swansea City
175 - MIDDLESBROUGH
180 - Bristol City
181 - Derby County
200 - Nottingham Forest
206 - Blackburn Rovers
209 - Sheffield Wednesday
214 - Hull City
217 - Millwall
220 - Birmingham City
232 - QPR
250 - Preston North End
261 - Wigan Athletic
319 - Reading
344 - Barnsley
349 - Luton Town
362 - Charlton Athletic
The global top 10
1 - Man City
2 - Bayern Munich
3 - Liverpool
4 - Barcelona
5 - PSG
6 - Chelsea
7 - Real Madrid
8 - Tottenham Hotspur
9 - Juventus
10 - Dortmund
