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David Byrom

Leeds United land spot on world's top 100 clubs above Celtic, Valencia and Monaco

Leeds United's performances this season have landed them a place on the world's top 100 clubs.

With the Whites storming to the Championship title playing Marcelo Bielsa's stylish brand of football, a leading data analytical website has ranked them as the 52nd-most in-form team in the globe.

Five Thirty Eight, a website created by Nate Silver - previously ranked by Time Magazine as one of the world's most 100 influential people thanks to his data analytics at US elections - has compiled a list of football club power rankings around the globe.

The list is ranked by the website's very own SPI, or Soccer Power Index.

SPI is a ranking of a team's overall strength, with sides assigned an offensive rating, which is based on how many goals they would be expected to score, and a defensive rating, based on the goals they would be expected to concede.

Five Thirty Eight explain: ""In our system, every team has an offensive rating that represents the number of goals it would be expected to score against an average team on a neutral field, and a defensive rating that represents the number of goals it would be expected to concede.

"These ratings, in turn, produce an overall SPI rating, which represents the percentage of available points — a win is worth three points, a tie worth one point, and a loss worth no points — the team would be expected to take if that match were played over and over again."

The Whites have an offensive rating of 1.8, whilst their defensive rating is 0.8

That produces an overall SPI rating of 70.0, which is enough to land the Whites 52nd spot on the list.

This puts Leeds comfortably above some big names on the rankings, such as Celtic in 58th place, Club Brugge in 60th and Monaco in 62nd.

The Whites are also above six Premier League clubs from last season - Norwich City, Newcastle United, Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Brighton.

One place ahead of Leeds is West Ham, who have a rating that is 0.4 higher.

Manchester CIty sit top of the rankings with an SPI of 95.6, with Bayern Munich second and Liverpool third.

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