We'll be back next week with the season's first regular edition of the WCR Weekly Top 25. While we're waiting for that, though, here is the next in our series of Annual Rankings.

1993 was the second season in a row in which the UEFA Champions Cup winner finished atop the Annual Rankings.

This is the first of two consecutive weeks in which we expect the rankings to go through some massive changes. Don't be scared, it happens every year. After the completion of five match days in each league, the previous season's numbers are dropped from the calculations. Recall, last week, we saw the changes happen in Ligue Un.

We're back in the United States now and getting settled in. It occurred to me that we haven't published an Annual Ranking in quite some time. We have published all from 1960-1991, as well as 2007-2009, all of which can be accessed below or by clicking on the Annual Rankings link. That brings us up to 1992.

With no club football going on this past weekend, we're back with the latest in our lists of the WCR Top 25s for past seasons. Next up is 1994.

1994 saw a trend continues as for the third consecutive season, the winner of the UEFA Champions Cup finished atop the annual rankings. For the second straight season the tournament's runner-up finished second in the rankings.

Welcome to the fifty-first annual WCR Top 25 rankings. For years, we have been describing how this list is compiled. In brief, the rankings are based on (a) the domestic results for each club's most recent completed season (either 2010 or 2009-10) and (b) performances in the continental championship tournaments through the use of bonus points.