knibis
10 years ago
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also according to UEFA, the EL winner only gets a CL-direct spot if the winner of CL also ends up in direct spot to CL in the legue
and about the possibility to get 5 CL teams from a single league, for this to happen the EL winner cannot end up in a direct or a CL-qualification spot in the league.
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also according to UEFA, the EL winner only gets a CL-direct spot if the winner of CL also ends up in direct spot to CL in the legue
and about the possibility to get 5 CL teams from a single league, for this to happen the EL winer cannot end up in a direct or a CL-qualification spot in the league.
Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern, Juventus, Benfica, PSG, Zenit St. Petersburg and PSV, the winners of Europe's eight biggest leagues this season, will all be top seeds in next season's Champions League group stage draw.
Following a change to the rules governing the selection of top seeds, which was approved by UEFA's Executive Committee, those will be the teams in pot 1 for the draw for Europe's top club competition, which is scheduled to take place in Monaco on 28th August.
Under the new rules, from next season, the tops seeds will be the winners of the seven European league championships with the highest UEFA coefficient, which are currently Spain, England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, France and Russia.
The final top seed will be the tournament winner, but given that both Barcelona and Juventus, this season's two finalists, have already won La Liga and Serie respectively, UEFA will include PSV Eindhoven, the winners of the league ranked eighth - The Netherlands Eredivisie - in pot 1.
In the past, seeding was decided by each team's UEFA coefficient. That system will remain unchanged for the other three pots when the draw takes place in Monaco on 28th August, which means that Real Madrid, who are already guaranteed a place in the Champions League group stages as La Liga runners-up, will take their place in pot 2.
This will make the groups unpredectibe as we can witness Juventus, Madrid, Arsenal, Monaco as a possible group, or Chelsea, Wolfsbug, Atletico Madrid, Monaco. ( more group of deaths )
But having group of death make some other groups cool groups : PSV, As Roma, Schalke, Maribor for example...
What this inspires you ? Im totally for it, having 3 strong teams competing for 2 places or even 4 would be fun...
What do you think about it ? Also if Sevilla wins EL this year, we will witness for the first time 5 teams from the same country, considering they cant face in group stage we will witness 1 team at almost all groups ( 5 out of 8 ) that will be really intertaining specially watching the draws...