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The FA Cup winners and the league's fifth-placed side go into the Europa League groups, with the Carabao Cup winners entering the second qualifying round. This season Manchester City have won the latter already - meaning sixth place in the Premier League now gets a Europa League spot. Things are confused further by the fact the Champions League and Europa League winners get an automatic place in the following season's Champions League group stages.
But if City win, then seventh place in the Premier League - which will be Wolves - gets that spot. Until teams could qualify for Europe by losing the FA Cup final if the winners had booked a Champions League place. Stoke and Hull took advantage of the old rule before it was changed.
But you now need to win the final to qualify. If Watford do win the cup, then the sixth-placed team in the Premier League has to enter the Europa League qualifiers on 25 July. Manchester United, who are currently sixth, have a pre-season game with Tottenham in China on that day. Tottenham and Liverpool are in the Champions League final, and - barring an extremely unlikely set of scorelines to drop Spurs down to fifth on the final day - will already have qualified for next season's competition through league position.
That means the 'extra' group stage spot set aside for the Champions League winners would go to the Austrian champions, who otherwise need to go through qualifying as Uefa's 11th-ranked league. If an English team won the Champions League and finished outside the Premier League's top four then five English teams would go into next season's group stage. Uefa changed the rules for qualification last year - starting with this season's tournaments.
In Tottenham finished fourth but missed out because Chelsea won the Champions League and finished outside the top four - but Spurs would have qualified under the current rules. 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. Arnold Schwarzenegger on having the guts to go green. Listen to nocturnal mixtapes specially curated from his music collection. Everything you need to know to make sure you never miss a moment. The teams are ranked by points won during the group stage.
Three points are awarded for a win, one point is awarded for a tie and no points for a loss. According to UEFA , if tied on points the following tiebreaking criteria are applied:. If after having applied criteria 1. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5.
A draw takes place for the Round of 32, the first round of the knockout phase. The 32 remaining teams are split into two pots of 16, with one containing the eight third-place teams from the UEFA Champions League group stage and the eight best UEFA Europa League group winners, and the other holding the four worst Europa League group winners and the Europa League group runners-up.
A club is drawn from each pot to determine what the pairings will be, with the conditions that a winner and runner-up who played in the same group in the previous round can't be drawn together, and that clubs from the same domestic league are also kept apart.
The Round of 16, quarterfinal and semifinal draws do not have clubs split into separate pots. This means that the remaining clubs can be drawn together regardless of where they finished in their group, or whether they played in the same group or are from the same domestic league. As the draws for the quarterfinals and semifinals are held together before the quarterfinals are played, the identity of the quarterfinal winners is not known at the time of the semifinal draw.
Teams are paired together for each round of the knockout phase, apart from the final, playing two matches at each team's home stadium. Each match is known as a 'leg', with the group winners hosting the second leg in the Round of The team that scores more goals over the two legs advances to the next round.
If the aggregate score is level after both legs, the away goals rule is applied. This means that the club that scores more goals away from home over the two legs qualifies for the next round.
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