Pi League

Clubs

Football clubs from around the world.

Every name is spelled on a phone keypad (ABC = 2, DEF = 3 … WXYZ = 9), with spaces, accents and punctuation left out, and ranked by where those digits first turn up in π. Two names on the same spot are listed A to Z.

Clubs by first appearance in π
Rank	Name	Decimal place
1	Al Ahly	2,225
2	Roma	17,441
3	Ajax	18,333
4	Lyon	22,716
5	Lazio	41,555
6	Lille	83,323
7	Celtic	143,342
8	Al Hilal	185,159
9	Porto	265,123
10	Benfica	628,763
11	Santos	943,255
12	Rangers	1,008,940
13	Monaco	1,500,067
14	Juventus	2,039,158
15	Napoli	4,229,556
16	Everton	4,355,891
17	Chelsea	4,853,891
18	Sevilla	6,238,321
19	Arsenal	6,612,287
20	AC Milan	6,972,462
21	Schalke	10,001,498
22	LA Galaxy	103,706,941
23	Valencia	108,700,330
24	Flamengo	108,801,042
25	Dynamo Kyiv	271,395,317
26	Beşiktaş	315,975,801
27	Inter Milan	464,866,908
28	Manchester City*	514,060,325
29	Manchester United*	514,060,325
30	RB Leipzig	530,422,235
31	Palmeiras	823,452,702
32	Feyenoord	839,608,237
33	Aston Villa	893,141,833
34	Sporting CP	893,658,281
35	PSV Eindhoven*	1,046,497,900
36	Fenerbahçe	1,676,391,222
37	Marseille	1,719,787,537
38	Liverpool	1,721,359,413
39	Kaizer Chiefs*	1,877,245,774
40	River Plate	1,890,130,586
41	Eintracht Frankfurt*	1,969,082,051
42	West Ham United*	2,147,015,290
43	Corinthians*	2,149,232,227
44	Barcelona	2,197,406,422
45	Leeds United*	2,815,304,031
46	Paris Saint-Germain*	2,842,170,257
47	Real Sociedad*	2,906,858,971
48	Borussia Dortmund*	2,935,821,206
49	Nottingham Forest*	3,164,410,971
50	Newcastle United*	3,183,090,827
51	Bayern Munich*	3,306,118,309
52	Red Star Belgrade*	3,614,277,505
53	Urawa Red Diamonds*	4,235,455,732
54	Tottenham Hotspur*	4,664,832,710
55	Athletic Bilbao*	5,259,942,635
56	Shakhtar Donetsk*	6,748,935,023
57	Fiorentina	6,824,071,984
58	Inter Miami	7,001,951,896
59	Boca Juniors*	7,363,678,891
60	Orlando Pirates*	7,506,603,870
61	Galatasaray*	7,996,705,651
62	Bayer Leverkusen*	8,965,751,077
63	Club Brugge	12,527,432,769
64	Atlético Madrid*	12,612,569,021
65	Olympiacos	13,988,683,951
66	Anderlecht	17,822,182,587
67	Dinamo Zagreb*	17,922,331,678
68	Real Madrid	31,247,544,903

* Longer than 10 digits on the keypad: too long to look up whole, so it is ranked by its longest piece (7 to 10 digits) that we found.