Rangers are the most improved team in Europe, it can be revealed.
And the Ibrox club stand on the verge of returning to an automatic place in the Champions League group stage.
Rangers face Royal Antwerp in the first leg of their Europa League last 32 tie on Thursday as they return to continental action, and domestically they're on the verge of being back in the big time.
One more point will guarantee them a place in the Champions League for next season, while winning the title could yet bring an automatic group stage spot depending on how far Steven Gerrard's side go in Europe this term.
However they do though, the improvement since the Liverpool legend arrived has been unparalleled in European football.
UEFA ranks clubs according to their performances in the Champions League and Europa League, with Bayern Munich, Barcelona and Juventus currently making up the top three.
The coefficients are calculated over a five-year average, meaning Rangers didn't have a coefficient of their own when they returned to European football in 2017.
Instead they were seeded according to the coefficient of the Premiership as a whole, which at the time stood at just 3.785.
That put Rangers in a notional place of 308th, sandwiched between FK Baku and Shirak Gyumri.
Their exploits since then have Steven Gerrard's side currently sitting in 61st with 26.250 and progression against Antwerp would see that rise still further.
That's an incredible rise of 247 places over the past four seasons - and the first of those ended with an ignominious defeat to Progres Niederkorn.
Of the teams in the top 100 not many can even come close, though Serie A outfit Atalanta can tell a similar tale.
They too returned to Europe in 2017 without a coefficient score and Gian Piero Gasperini's side sit in 26th with 50.500 points.
The Orobici have reached the Champions League knockout stages in each of the past two seasons.
But the Bergamo outfit were starting with the Serie A coefficient which, unsurprisingly was streets ahead of the Scottish top flight in 2017.
Atalanta began from a notional position of 131st with 14.666 points, so while their 105 place rise is impressive it doesn't match Rangers.
Other impressive rises include Slavia Prague going from 180th to 40th over that period, and LASK of Austria moving up 188 places to 67th.
But none can come close to matching the rise of Rangers, who will hope to climb even further by progressing to the last 16.
