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Ranks FC - A Football Podcast
Welcome to Ranks FC - the show that takes football and puts it in the right order. Join Jack, Dean & friends every Wednesday for rankings that discuss the best of football across Europe, from the Premier League to Serie A, La Liga to the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 to the Primeira Liga and beyond!If you're here to hear about the best players on the planet, the next generation coming through, the biggest transfer deals and the under-the-radar steals, you've come to the right place - all with a positive…
Episodes
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastThe Ranks FC 23/24 Awards & The Season's Best Stories
Hello Rank Squad! We thought it was a good time to put together our End of Season Awards Show, so here we are. We take some time to reflect on an incredible…
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Ranking Major Transfer Dilemmas This Summer
Hello Rank Squad! The domestic club season is drawing to a close. The continental league titles have mostly already been lifted, the Premier League title will…
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Champions League Takeaway: Madrid Leave It Late & Dortmund Make It Great
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back to take a look at the second legs of the UCL semi-finals, where we saw Real Madrid beat Bayern Munich 2-1…
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Ranking the European Team of the Season
Hello Rank Squad! It's time to go Continental for this week's episode, building a European Team of the Season from the big six leagues on the European…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Dortmund Stun PSG & Madrid Held in Munich
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back to take a look at the first legs of the UCL semi-finals, where we saw Borussia Dortmund 1-0 PSG & Bayern…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Premier League Team of the Year
Hello Rank Squad! You've seen the debates raging on Twitter, so we thought it was worth putting our two pennies worth into the mix. Here is our attempt at…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Final Four in the Champions League, Europa League & Conference League
Hello Rank Squad! Just four teams remain in each of the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Conference League, and so we thought we'd get our competition…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Premier League Catastrophe, Reyes de Europa, Lucho's PSG Remontada & BVB Stun Atleti
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back to take a look at the second legs of the UCL Quarter Finals, which took place across both Tuesday and…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking Breakout Stars of This Season
Hello Rank Squad! After Cole Palmer's star turn on Monday night against Everton, we got thinking about the players who have used this season as a platform to…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Xavi Silences Lucho, Dortmund Stay Alive, Bayern's Experience Tells & Another Madrid-City Classic
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back to take a look at the first legs of the UCL Quarter Finals, which took place across both Tuesday and…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRúben Amorim: The Next Liverpool Manager?
Hello Rank Squad! The talk of the football world right now seems to be the fact that Liverpool are reportedly closing in on their next manager - Rúben Amorim…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking Rule Changes That Would Improve Football
Hello Rank Squad! Something a little bit different today, and we hope you'll find it as fun a listen as we found it to record. Dean put together a list of…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Best Wingers in Europe
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for us once again to turn to a positional ranking - having covered the best centre-backs and centre-midfielders in the game, we're…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastUSMNT Drop Another Dos a Cero on Mexico (Postbox Excerpt)
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for the weekly excerpt from our Monday Postbox episode on Patreon, where we take questions from our community to look back across…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Most Dramatic Finishes To This Season
Hello Rank Squad! And...breathe. After the drama of the last few weeks across so many different competitions, men's club football has come screeching to a halt…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastManchester United End Klopp's Quadruple Dream (Postbox Excerpt)
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for the weekly excerpt from our Monday Postbox episode on Patreon, where we take questions from our community to look back across…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Penalty Delight for Arsenal & Atléti, Rolls Reus Returns & Barça's Youth Injection
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back with a bang, as we take a look at the last four games of the Round of 16 stage, which took place across…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Greatest European Goalscorers Ever
Hello Rank Squad! It's a Champions League week, so we thought it could be fun to throw up something a bit more evergreen whilst still linking into the action…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Madrid Edge Leipzig, City's Training Day, Bayern Breathe Again & Bossman Mbappé
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway returns, as we take a look at the games that saw the first four teams book their spots in the quarter finals of the…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking Players Who Could Quit the Premier League
Hello Rank Squad! Today we're taking a look at some of the most important and influential players who could be departing the Premier League this summer, for a…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastPhenomenal Foden Keeps Manchester Blue (Postbox Excerpt)
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for the weekly excerpt from our Monday Postbox episode on Patreon, where we take questions from our community to look back across…
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Ranking the World's Best Centre Midfielders
Hello Rank Squad! You've been asking for more specific rankings, so we took it upon ourselves to deliver - this week's episode takes a look at the players…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastLiverpool Triumph in the Carabao Cup Final (Postbox Excerpt)
Hello Rank Squad! We wanted to share with you an excerpt from our Monday Postbox episode on Patreon, on which we take questions from our community to look back…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Arsenal Burned at the Dragão, Napoli Hold Barça, Penalty Drama for Dortmund & Inter Finally Break Atleti
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back with a bang, as we take a look at the second set of First Leg Round of 16 fixtures across both Tuesday and…
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Ranking the Best Value Transfers from Summer 2023
Hello Rank Squad! This week, we've decided enough time has passed for us to examine the deals that took place in the summer, and see which clubs made the best…
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The MLS Season Preview Show
Hello Rank Squad! MLS is back this week, and we wanted to pay homage to that fact by dropping a special preview show as a bonus episode. Ranks FC MLS…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Bayern's Season on the Brink, PSG's Strength in Depth, Another Big Brahim Moment & City Edging Towards Perfection
Hello Rank Squad! Champions League Takeaway is back with a bang, as we take a look at the first Knockout games of the season - across both Tuesday and…
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Ranking In-Demand Managers & Potential Destinations
Hello Rank Squad! There's a few big managerial vacancies opening up this summer - Barcelona and Liverpool in particular - and there's also signs that there…
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Ranking the Champions League Last 16
Hello Rank Squad! The January window has been and gone, and it's time to turn our attention to the return of continental European football - with the Champions…
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Ranking our Favourite Transfers of the January Window
Hello Rank Squad! The January transfer window has SLAMMED SHUT, so we thought it was an opportune time to take a look back through the deals that went down…
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Ranking the Next £100m Transfer
Hello Rank Squad! This transfer window has been a funny one across the board in many ways - we've seen the Premier League's financial dominance of the market…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Big Names and Likely Deals of Deadline Week
Hello Rank Squad! The whole gang's back together as Dean and Jack are joined by our Rank God Sam Tighe, who, we're delighted to say, has just become a father…
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Ranking Football Careers at Risk
Hello Rank Squad, It's time for a little twist on a Ranks FC classic in today's podcast - we're taking a look at six players who desperately need a move for…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Hottest Rumours of the Window #1: Mayoral, Gallagher, Ferguson, Olise &
Hello Rank Squad! We're back with a new series that will run throughout January, ranking the five hottest transfer rumours that have been floating around this…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking Kylian Mbappé's Potential Landing Spots
Hello Rank Squad! It's the biggest story of the January transfer window, so we thought it deserved its own episode - Kylian Mbappé and what the future holds…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking League Leaders Likely To Win The Title
Hello Rank Squad! We're back in a New Year with new content for you all, and today we're going to take a look at the seven teams who led their respective…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Biggest January Transfer Rumours in the PL
Hello Rank Squad! It's a slightly belated drop from us this week, but with the January window just days away from opening, we thought it was high time to take…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastEuropean Super League v2: Reaction and Concerns
Hello Rank Squad! It's an important topic on today's Ranks FC, discussing the new proposals that have surfaced for a European Super League after a ruling by…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Internet's Interesting Football Takes
Hello Rank Squad! We're into the festive spirit here at Ranks FC and we thought we'd do something a little bit different for a laugh today. Dean has been…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastBonus Episode: Reacting to the Champions League Last 16 Draw
Hello Rank Squad! We're here on a Monday to drop you a bonus podcast, looking back at the Last 16 draw in the Champions League and examining how we see each of…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Last 16 Set, Group F Finishes in Style, United Crash Out, Real Hate Losing, Is The PL's Power Overstated and Everything Else!
Hello Rank Squad! It’s time for the last Champions League Takeaway of 2023, and the last ever one discussing the group stages as we know them, with the format…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the European Golden Boot Leaders & Contenders
Hello Rank Squad! Just ahead of some of the winter breaks kicking in across Europe, and at the end of a few of the 'summer leagues', we thought it would be a…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking January Transfer Fixes in the Premier League
Hello Rank Squad! It's Dean's birthday, so we're doing his favourite thing - talking about transfers. Today, the Transfer Guru looks at five Premier League…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: Penalty Pain in Paris, Bellingham Again, Arsenal Click into Gear, Dangerous Dortmund, and Everything Else!
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for another Champions League Takeaway - a midweek bonus chow down on all the week's UCL action. The biggest competition in Europe…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the World's Best Centre Backs
Hello Rank Squad! It's a very special episode today - the 200th Ranks FC Podcast on this feed. Three years on from the inception of Ranks as an independent…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastQuick Ranks: Biggest Failures of 2023
Hello Rank Squad! Here's another new idea we're trialling here on Ranks FC - following on from our Deep Dive episode last week, this week we're turning our…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Early Euro 2024 and Copa América Front-Runners
Hello Rank Squad! We're coming to the end of the last international break of 2023, so we thought it was time to sit down and explore the early favourites for…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastThe Deep Dive: Manchester United - What Does the Future Hold?
Hello Rank Squad! Welcome to the first of a new series here on Ranks FC - the Deep Dive. Every few weeks we're going to take a look into a specific club that…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Most Important Player for Premier League Front-Runners
Hello Rank Squad! We're delighted to welcome back Ranks FC Head Coach Harry Brooks for today's episode, in which we're taking a look at the Premier League's…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: United's Copenhagen Nightmare, Group F for Fun, Benfica in Trouble, Brahim the Boy, Griezmann Shines Again, Barcelona Wobbling, Arsenal's Dovetailing Trio & Everything Else
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for another Champions League Takeaway - a midweek bonus meal on all the week's UCL action. The biggest competition in Europe…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking Football Records Ready To Be Broken
Hello Rank Squad! We're back to look at something a little more abstract this week, having a look at the season so far and seeing where we think records might…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking New Transfer Targets in 2024
Hello Rank Squad! There's some new names firmly in the transfer conversations as we speed towards the end of 2023, with previously unavailable players and ones…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: La Masia Powering Barca Again, Jesus' Seville Miracles, PSG Move Through the Gears, Redemption Night at Old Trafford, UCL Classics, Brais Mendez & Everything Else
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for another Champions League Takeaway - a midweek bonus meal on all the week's UCL action. The biggest competition in Europe…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the MLS Cup Playoffs
Hello Rank Squad! We're going Stateside for today's podcast, with the MLS postseason kicking off this week. Our MLS correspondent and writer Owen Murray is…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Ballon d'Or Contenders for 2022/23
Hello Rank Squad! It's that time of year again, where the crème de la crème of world football dust out the old tuxedos and head for Paris for the glittering…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the Best Players in Europe This Season
Hello Rank Squad! With the wheels on Europe's top five leagues squealing to a halt as we hit the second international break of the season, we thought it would…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastChampions League Takeaway: United Return to Hell, The Saka Situation, Heartbreak in Berlin, PSG - Pretty Sensational Geordies, Atleti Getting it Done & Everything Else
Hello Rank Squad! It's time for another Champions League Takeaway - a midweek bonus meal on all the week's UCL action. The biggest competition in European…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastSacking or Saving Europe's Under-Fire Managers (v3)
Hello Rank Squad! It's tough out there as a manager. You can be winning trophies and be the designated Chosen One one minute, and then on the verge of losing…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking New South American Talents in Europe This Season with Nathan Joyes
Hello Rank Squad! We've got a very special second episode for you this week, looking at five players who have joined (or are joining) European clubs from South…
Ranks FC - A Football PodcastRanking the World's League Leaders
Hello Rank Squad! It's something a little bit different this week, as we take each of the clubs leading various leagues around the world and pit them against…