European Leagues European Leagues European Leagues (EL) is a sports organization within association football created for growth of professional football in Europe. Its members are the professional football leagues organisations of 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Romania, Ukraine, and Serbia. In addition, there are seven associate leagues representing some of these countries as well as Turkey. Created in 1997, originally under the name Association of the European Union Premier Professional Football Leagues (EUPPFL). The name was changed from European Professional Football Leagues
Croatian football clubs in European competitions in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17. In the 2017 rankings that are used for the 2018–19 European competitions, Croatia's coefficient points total is 25.250. After earning a score of 5.125 during the 2016–17 European campaign, Croatia is ranked by UEFA as the 16th best association in Europe out of 55. "(As of 13 December 2018), Source: Bert Kassies website." Croatian football clubs in European competitions Croatian football clubs have participated in UEFA competitions since 1958. Before 1992 Croatia was a part of Yugoslavia. Therefore, Croatian teams represented this country and did not always have a guaranteed spot in European