South America's Top Clubs - September 2016

Total dominance during the past month in Germancopa's South American club ranking: Atlético Nacional have taken over top position in spectacular fashion. The Colombian Copa Libertadores winners continued to perform where they left off in the Copa Sudamericana as well, marching through the first round. In the process, they collected a massive 51 points.

Champions of South America and of this club ranking: Atlético Nacional (Photo: sportschau.de)

This leaves Atlético Nacional with a huge 14 point gap to second place Estudiantes de la Plata. After Ecuador's Barcelona in third, two further Colombian clubs round off the current top five. Independiente Medellín and Atlético Junior both had successful first rounds in the small continental competition as well and show why Colombia currently holds both trophies.

Olimpia, previously on top in August, fall all the way to 17th, but remain unbeaten in twelve straight games. The most unexpected club in the top 20 is probably Montevideo Wanderers. The Uruguayans also did well in the Sudamericana.

The rules if you missed them previously:
For this table, we look at the last 15 results from each team in South America’s leagues and Copa Libertadores/Sudamericana. A win in the league gets you 3 points, a draw 1. Internationally those numbers are doubled to 6 and 2. 

Pos.	Last	Team	Country	Points
1	2	Atlético Nacional	Colombia	51
2	9	Estudiantes	Argentina	37
3	6	Barcelona SC	Ecuador	37
4	16	Independiente Medellín	Colombia	35
5	-	Atlético Junior	Colombia	34
6	7	Boca Juniors	Argentina	34
7	14	Carabobo FC	Venezuela	33
8	-	Flamengo	Brazil	32
9	-	Independiente	Argentina	32
10	5	Guaraní	Paraguay	32
11	4	CA Lanús	Argentina	32
12	11	Godoy Cruz	Argentina	32
13	-	Atlético Mineiro	Brazil	32
14	19	River Plate	Argentina	31
15	-	CS Emelec	Ecuador	31
16	-	Montevideo Wanderers	Uruguay	31
17	1	Olimpia	Paraguay	31
18	-	Deportivo La Guaira	Venezuela	30
19	-	Cerro Porteño	Paraguay	30
20	-	Palestino	Chile	30