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Among all the Asian football leagues in 2024, the Saudi Pro League has been ranked number 1 with 18.850 points and also they stood number 1 with a total of 94.898 cumulative points since 2015 (last 8 seasons) overall. The reason the Saudi Pro League retained their number 1 spot is majorly due to the arrival of Cristiano Ronaldo in their league, which began the development of the league through the joining of global football stars.
As per the 2024 rankings of Asian football leagues Korea Republic league has got 16.850 points to get second place while Japan league got 15.350 points and ranks third in the list of 2024 Asian football leagues.
Asian Football League rankings (based on points) in 2024:
- Saudi Arabia - 18.850
- Korea Republic - 16.850
- Japan - 15.350
- UAE - 15.000
- Uzbekistan - 11.250
- China PR - 9.900
- IR Iran - 9.300
- Thailand - 8.567
- Australia - 8.111
- Qatar - 8.100
- Iraq - 6.667
- Malaysia - 6.000
- Vietnam - 5.267
- Jordan - 4.967
Saudi Arabia team rankings in the last 8 seasons (total 14 teams):
- 2015: Joint-fifth with Japan (15.250)
- 2016: Tenth ranking (9.500)
- 2017: Third ranking (18.600)
- 2018: Seventh ranking (10.000)
- 2019: First ranking (26.350)
- 2021: Second ranking (20.950)
- 2022: Second ranking (19.075)
- 2024: First ranking (18.850)
Cumulative points of Saudi Arabia - 15.25 *(0.3) + 9.5 *( 0.4) + 18.6 *(0.5) + 10 *(0.6) + 26.35 *(0.7) + 20.95 *(0.8) + 19.075 *(0.9) + 18.85 = 94.8975
Cumulative team rankings (based on total points) in the last 8 seasons:
- Saudi Arabia - 94.898
- Japan - 90.999
- Korea Republic - 88.100
- Qatar - 70.330
- IR Iran - 68.640
- UAE - 64.373
- China PR - 55.764
- Thailand - 49.546
- Uzbekistan - 47.259
- Iraq - 36.312
- Australia -32.221
- Malaysia - 31.118
- Jordan - 29.955
- Vietnam - 28.524
