Andrei Rațiu, the Romanian footballer of the Spanish club Rayo Vallecano, has been included in the ideal team of the season in the Conference League, as announced by the UEFA website.
Andrei Rațiu played the full match on Wednesday in the competition’s final, lost by Rayo Vallecano with a score of 0-1 against the English team Crystal Palace.
The UEFA technical observer group has selected the team of the 2025/26 season for the Conference League. Crystal Palace is represented by four players, while Rayo Vallecano by three.
This ideal team is as follows: Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace) - Andrei Rațiu (Rayo Vallecano), Florian Lejeune (Rayo Vallecano), Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace), Pedro Henrique (Shakhtar Donetsk) - Kees Smit (AZ Alkmaar), Adam Wharton (Crystal Palace), Isi Palazon (Rayo Vallecano) - Ismaila Sarr (Crystal Palace), Marius Mouandilmadji (Samsunspor), Martial Godo (Strasbourg).
The best player of the season in the Conference League was designated Ismaila Sarr. The 28-year-old footballer scored nine goals in Crystal Palace's campaign, finishing as the competition's top scorer. Additionally, he covered more distance than any other player in the Conference League 2025/26 - 139.1 km. Only three players accumulated more than his 1,103 minutes played.
In previous years, the best players in the Conference League were Lorenzo Pellgrini (AS Roma, 2021/2022 season), Declan Rice (West Ham United, 2022/2023), Ayoub El Kaabi (Olympiacos Piraeus, 2023/2024), and Isco (Real Betis, 2024/2025).