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International Federation of Football History & Statistics

The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) is an organization that chronicles the history and records of association football. It was founded on 27 March 1984 in Leipzig by Dr. Alfredo Pöge with the blessings of general secretary of the FIFA at the time, Dr. HelmutKäser. The IFFHS was based at Al-Muroor Street 147, AbuDhabi for some time but, in 2010, relocated to Bonn, Germany.During its early stages, and until 2002, the IFFHS concentrated on publishing the quarterly magazines Fußball-Weltzeitschrift, Liberospezial deutsch and Libero international. When these had to be discontinued for reasons which were not officially told, the organization published its material in a series of multi-lingual books in co-operation with sponsors. The statistical organization has now confined its publishing activities to its website, receiving support from FIFA, organization that recognise the IFFHS and its work although the latter has no affiliation  the the football's governing body.

Club World Ranking

Since 1991, the entity has produced a monthly Club World Ranking.

The ranking takes into consideration the results of twelve months of continental and intercontinental competitions, national league matches (including play-offs) and the most important national cup (excluding points won before the round of 16).

All countries are rated at four levels based upon the national league performance—clubs in the highest level leagues receive 4 points for each match won, 2 for a draw and 0 for a defeat. Level 2 is assigned 3 pts. (win), 1.5 (draw) and 0 (lost), and so on with the next lower levels.

In continental competitions, all clubs receive the same number of points at all stages regardless of the performance level of their leagues. However, the UEFA Champions League and the CopaLibertadores yield more points than UEFAEuropa League and Copa Sudamericana, respectively. The point assignment system is still lower for the AFC, CAF, CONCACAF and OFC continental tournaments. Competitions between two continents are evaluated depending upon their importance. Competitions not organized by a continental confederation, or any intercontinental events not recognized by FIFA, are not taken into consideration.

Current ranking

Top 40 (1 March 2012 - 28 February 2013)
Position	Team	Confederation	Points
1	Chelsea	UEFA	307.0
2	Atletico Madrid	UEFA	304.0
3	Bayern Munich	UEFA	292.0
4	Corinthians	CONMEBOL	287.0
5	Barcelona	UEFA	283.0
6	Boca Juniors	CONMEBOL	281.0
7	Real Madrid	UEFA	277.0
8	Juventus	UEFA	241.0
9	Inter Milan	UEFA	234.0
10	São Paulo	CONMEBOL	230.0
11	Universidad de Chile	CONMEBOL	223.0
12	Fluminense	CONMEBOL	222.0
13	Basel	UEFA	220.0
14	Fenerbahçe	UEFA	216.0
	Lazio	UEFA	216.0
16	Borussia Dortmund	UEFA	215.0
17	Lyon	UEFA	214.0
18	Paris Saint Germain	UEFA	210.0
19	Manchester United	UEFA	205.0
	Celtic	UEFA	205.0
	Club Libertad	CONMEBOL	205.0
22	Anzhi Makhachkala	UEFA	203.0
23	Gremio	CONMEBOL	202.0
24	Santos	CONMEBOL	201.0
25	Liverpool	UEFA	200.0
26	SK Viktoria Plzeň	UEFA	193.5
27	Valencia	UEFA	193.0
28	Hannover 96	UEFA	192.0
29	CFR Cluj	UEFA	191.5
30	Bordeaux	UEFA	190.0
	Málaga	UEFA	190.0
	Ulsan Hyundai	AFC	190.0
	Genk	UEFA	190.0
34	Sociedad Deportivo	CONMEBOL	189.5
35	Vélez Sarsfield	CONMEBOL	189.0
36	FC Steaua Bucureşti	UEFA	187.0
37	Tottenham	UEFA	186.0
38	Tigre	CONMEBOL	182.0
39	Club Sport Emelec	CONMEBOL	179.5
40	Milan	UEFA	179.0
	Anderlecht	UEFA	179.0

The World's Club Team of the Month

In the same case of the The World's Club Team of the Year, since January 2000 IFFHS recognizes those teams that have the greatest performance in the world during a month as The World's Club Team for the Month.

IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper

The IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper is a football award given annually since 1987 to the most outstanding goalkeeper of the year as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The votes are cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as experts from different continents. Italy's GianluigiBuffon was named the best goalkeeper of the world in the last quarter-of-a-century, 1987 to 2011.

Goalkeeper of centery

At the end of the 20th century, the IFFHS also voted on the World's Goalkeeper of the Century, won by the Soviet Union's LevYashin running ahead of Gordon Banks and DinoZoff.

Rank	Player	Nations represented (period)	Votes
1	LevYashin	USSR (1954–1967)	1002
2	Gordon Banks	England (1963–1972)	717
3	DinoZoff	Italy (1968–1983)	661
4	SeptMaier	West Germany (1966–1979)	456
5	Ricardo Zamora	Spain (1920–1936)	443
6	JoséLuisChilavert	Paraguay (1989–2003)	373
7	PeterSchmeichel	Denmark (1987–2001)	291
8	PeterShilton	England (1970–1990)	196
9	FrantišekPlánička	Czechoslovakia (1926–1938)	194
10	AmadeoCarrizo	Argentina (1954–1964)	192