November 10 – Iceland, followed by three Scandinavian nations top UEFA’s fair play rankings for 2025/26, while Wales topped fair play ranking for the behaviour of spectators. Both national associations were rewarded with €50,000 for good behaviour.
The rankings are based on the fair play results from all UEFA competition matches played at both club and national team level between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026. In the overall Fair Play ranking England, whose national teams and clubs played the second highest amount of games at 256, were ranked fifth.
Spain, who played the highest number of games (268) were ranked 29th. Of Europe’s Big 5 nations and leagues, Germany were ranked 11th, France 15th and Italy 32nd.
Bottom of the overall ranking in 51st place was Bosnia and Herzegovina who were fractionally below Georgia and Turkey.
To qualify for the rankings, member associations had to have played a minimum of 50 matches.
As well as the overall ranking there were two other rankings: Behaviour of spectators, and Improvement in overall fair play score from one season to the next.
Wales dominated fan behaviour list with 9.125 points, ahead of Estonia, Moldova and `Iceland.
England, whose fans have in the past had a tradition of bad behaviour, ranked 14th. Spain ranked 27th, France 37th and Italy 38th.
At the bottom of the ranking with significantly worse ranking points was Israel.
Albania topped the improvement in overall fair play score from one season to the next, progressing from 7.503 points in 2024/25 to 7.789 points in 2025/26 (+0.286 points).
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