Until , Champions League winners did not qualify automatically - a rule which was changed when Liverpool won the tournament but did not finish in the top four. There is no Champions League spot for the beaten finalists in the event the winners already had a place through their domestic league.
So, for example, Liverpool would not have qualified for this year's competition had they not finished in the top four. Arsenal and Chelsea are in the Europa League final and the winners will qualify for next season's Champions League group stages.
If the winners finish outside the top four in the Premier League which is almost certainly the case for Arsenal , it will mean five English teams will be in the Champions League. However if they do finish in the top four as Chelsea have , then England will not get an extra spot. The team who finish third in the fifth-ranked league - France - will go into the Champions League group stages instead of the qualifiers. Even if the winners have already qualified for the Champions League through league position, however, there is no spot for the beaten finalists.
There can be a maximum of five teams from one country in the Champions League. So that causes a bit of a mess if English teams win both European competitions but neither finish in the top four. Obviously that won't now be the case this season, with Liverpool and Chelsea guaranteed top-four spots - and Tottenham and Arsenal battling for another. If, in the future, the two tournament winners are both English and both finish outside the top four - but in a Europa League qualification place through the league, FA Cup or Carabao Cup - then the Premier League's fourth-placed team would not qualify for the Champions League and would instead drop into the Europa League group stages.
There would only be two Europa League spots - for the team who finish fourth in the Premier League and whichever other qualifier had not won one of the European tournaments. If one of them qualified for Europe and the other did not, then there would be five teams in the Champions League and three in the Europa League. Got all that? We're off for a lie down. These comments are now closed.
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Manchester United qualified for last season's Champions League after winning the Europa League they finished sixth in the Premier League that season The top four teams in the Premier League qualify for the Champions League, while the FA Cup winners, the Carabao Cup winners and the fifth-placed side in the top flight go into the Europa League.
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Anyone else remember the Cup-winners' Cup? Comment posted by dixiedean, at 9 Apr dixiedean. What is absolutely clear is that 7th position should be avoided at all costs. Look at Burnley. Europa was a disaster for them. Comment posted by abracadabra, at 9 Apr abracadabra. Not simple but there is a higher possibility of at least a 7th English team in Europe. But honestly, only the top 6 are capable of having a long run in Europe and EPL.
A possible 7th place Watford, Wolves, Everton, Leicester may qualify but would they be able to keep up at both fronts? Or will they end up like Burnley? One bonus for teams from the top leagues is they only have to play one qualifying round rather than the three of recent seasons in the Europa League.
So their road will begin on Aug. Originally named "Europa League 2" as a working title, the competition was created to give teams from smaller nations, who would usually not make the group stage of European competition, a greater chance. It means at least 34 countries will be represented in the group stages of the UEFA club competitions the guaranteed number is 26 under the present format.
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said: "There will be more matches for more clubs, with more associations represented in the group stages. There was a widespread demand by all clubs to increase their chances of participating more regularly in European competition. No, the access list has simply been adjusted so teams from the smaller nations now play in this competition, and fewer clubs will go through Europa League qualifying.
The stadium has a capacity of just 21, Group winners will automatically go through to the round of But there will be a preliminary knockout round or round of 32 as we now know it where group runners-up will play two-legged ties against third-placed teams from the Europa League groups to reach the round of The competition then adopts a traditional knockout format.
Yes, just as the Europa League winners qualify for the Champions League, the Europa Conference League winners will automatically be entered into the following season's Europa League. The main issue is that all teams from the leagues ranked below 15th in the UEFA coefficient based on five-year performance in Europe are now locked out of the Europa League.
Teams from Cyprus, Switzerland and Greece just miss out and will have no route into the Europa League other than dropping into it from Champions League qualifying. The competition has received a lukewarm reception from leagues that regularly have teams who reach the Europa League group stage, who now feel they are being blocked from competing even at the second level of European football. A more acceptable system may have been increased "trickle down" from Europa League qualifying into the UEFA Conference League, so as not to shut off that route for so many teams.
The streamlined qualification process means only two rounds will be played. Nine teams enter in the qualifying rounds, from the mid-ranked associations, with the remaining 16 places made up of Champions League losers. Twelve teams will automatically start in the group stage , all from the top six leagues plus the Europa Conference League title holders from the season.
Chelsea winning the Champions League while also finishing in the top four has no ramifications on the Premier League. England would retain their four qualification spots, and the fifth-placed Premier League team qualify for the Europa League group stage. Chelsea would still automatically qualify for next season's Champions League as tournament winners, and England would have five teams competing.
Whoever finishes fourth in the Premier League would not drop down to the Europa League.
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