![]() ![]() In the Champions League we already knew all but six participants before qualifying. © ProShots Who has qualified for 2021/22 Europa League? ![]() Shakhtar Donetsk and Benfica got the better of Monaco and PSV to seal the last two spots via the league path. The champions path eventually saw Salzburg, Young Boys, Malmo and Sheriff progress to the lucrative group stage. Two of those emerge from the ‘champions path’, consisting only of domestic champions.įour others come from the ‘league path’ – those who had the opportunity due to coming second or third in those leagues which are highly ranked by UEFA but still below the biggest four. ![]() The final six spots were decided upon based on the qualification process. What teams qualified for the Champions League? In total, 26 of the 32 qualifiers were already locked in for the Champions League before the recent qualifying rounds. Zenit, Club Brugge, Dynamo Kiev, Ajax and Besiktas are those sides. Lille, PSG, Porto and Sporting CP take those spots.įive more teams from the rest of Europe achieved automatic entry after winning their respective leagues. That is despite finishing the domestic season in seventh position.įrance and Portugal get two automatic qualifiers each for the group stage. But this year La Liga will have a fifth representative.Īs Villarreal won the Europa League, they will become the fifth team from Spain’s top flight to play in the 2021/22 group stage. The committee also confirmed a plan announced January for the European qualification format for men’s national teams for the 2026 World Cup.Įurope has 16 entries in the first 48-team lineup - which will be hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico - and 12 will go directly to the winners of qualifying groups now slimmed down to four or five teams instead of five or six.įour World Cup entries will be earned through playoff brackets involving 16 nations – the 12 runners-up of qualifying groups plus four teams advancing from Nations League standings.The four teams to qualify for Europe’s top club competition from Spain’s league positions are Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Sevilla. UEFA did not schedule a news conference after its executive committee met Wednesday to discuss decisions in European soccer. ![]() Sporting Lisbon’s stadium, which has a 50,000 capacity, was picked to host the Women’s Champions League final in 2025. UEFA said that will help distinguish it from the Europa League which also plays on Thursdays through the season. In a separate decision, the competition will be rebranded next year to just the UEFA Conference League. UEFA said it will “provide expertise” in Athens at games over the coming months because the AEK stadium “is brand new and never operated by the club in an international context.” The current lineup also includes Juventus and Aston Villa though both risk being excluded because of pending UEFA decisions on, respectively, financial wrongdoing and being in shared ownership with another club that qualified for Europe. Teams in next season’s competition with large contingents of traveling fans include Eintracht Frankfurt and Hajduk Split. West Ham averages more than 62,000 for home games in the Premier League and won playing in its first European final for 47 years. The 19,000-capacity Slavia Prague stadium was chosen for the 2023 final between West Ham and Fiorentina. UEFA’s choices seemed to acknowledge a misjudgment in preseason choices for final hosts in a competition that started in the 2021-22 season.įewer than 20,000 fans could get into the new national stadium in Tirana, Albania, for the inaugural final between Roma and Feyenoord in 2022. The venue drew crowds of about 41,000 for three games at the 2012 European Championship that Poland co-hosted with Ukraine. In 2025, Slask Wrocław’s stadium will host the final. The 2024 final in UEFA’s third-tier club competition was awarded to the new AEK Athens stadium which should hold about 30,000 spectators. GENEVA (AP) - UEFA picked bigger stadiums Wednesday to host the next two Europa Conference League finals after sub-20,000 capacity venues staged the previous two title games involving clubs from Italy, England and the Netherlands. ![]()
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