How many europa league places for england

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By Katherine Lucas. The Premier League is winding down, but the race for top for is hotting up — with Leicester, Chelsea and Liverpool all in contention for the final two Champions League spots. With Manchester City and Chelsea facing each other in the Champions League and Manchester United contesting the Europa League final against Villarreal, how many English teams can participate in the Champions League next season — and will the top-four finisher lose out if a Premier League team wins the Champions League?

Four places are reserved for the teams who finish in the top four of the Premier League, while an extra spot is saved should an English side win the tournament but finish outside of the top four. 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. There will be a preliminary knockout round after the group stage again, this is really the round of The runners-up will play third-placed teams from the Champions League for a place in the round of As with the Europa Conference League, the Europa League group winners will skip a round compared to the current format, going straight to the round of Skip to main content Skip to navigation.

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