New club ranking: River among the top 30, while Boca remains outside the top 100

Months after the close of the 2024/25 season, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) released its annual ranking of the world's top 500 teams, evaluating their results between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025.

There were no major surprises at the top: PSG, the newly crowned Champions League winner, climbed to first place and relegated Real Madrid to second place. Meanwhile, the only South American team in the top 10 is Flamengo (8th place with 364 points), followed by Palmeiras (13th with 327), Botafogo (15th with 319), and Fluminense (20th with 282 points).

Further down, although with a drop of eight spots compared to the previous ranking, River is the highest-ranked Argentine team. The Millonario appears in 29th place with 258 points, tied with Galatasaray, closely followed by Racing, which holds second place among local teams and 35th place globally with 244 points.

The most striking case was that of Boca. Xeneize dropped 22 positions, falling from 112th to 134th, where it shares the spot with FK Borac Banja Luka from Bosnia. The Ribera team finished the season without titles, was eliminated in the round of 16 of the Sudamericana, and failed to reach the group stage of the 2025 Libertadores, which left it out of the South American top 20.

In total, 27 clubs from the Professional League appear in the list published by the IFFHS. The only absentees are Aldosivi and San Martín de San Juan (recently promoted) and Sarmiento de Junín, which had a poor performance in the last campaign.

The 6 Argentine teams in the world top 100

1. River (29th)
2. Racing (35th)
3. Central Córdoba (55th)
4. Vélez (68th)
5. Huracán (86th)
6. Lanús (94th)