{"id":19480,"date":"2025-04-14T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19480\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:09:11","slug":"how-premier-league-could-boast-eleven-teams-in-europe-next-season-with-seven-qualifying-for-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19480\/","title":{"rendered":"How Premier League could boast ELEVEN teams in Europe next season with seven qualifying for Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE PREM could still have 11 teams in Europe next season – although it needs Aston Villa to pull off the mother of all Champions League comebacks to still be on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arsenal\u2019s quarter-final first-leg thrashing of Real Madrid last week confirmed that England will have a fifth Champions League<\/a> place next term, for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Aston Villa’s second leg against PSG will be integral for other Prem clubs and their European hopesCredit: EPA\"Brighton's<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fulham and Brighton could still qualify for EuropeCredit: Reuters<\/p>\n

But if Villa were to find a way of overhauling their 3-1 first-leg deficit when Paris Saint-Germain visit the West Midlands tomorrow and go on to lift the trophy in Munich next month, that would mean six Prem teams in the competition.<\/p>\n

That would even extend to SEVEN <\/strong>if either Tottenham or Manchester United<\/a> can progress and win the Europa League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And there is the possibility of a further FOUR <\/strong>places on offer if Chelsea<\/a> make their status as Conference League favourites count by adding that trophy to the club\u2019s European haul.<\/p>\n

If the standings in the Prem table were not to change between now and the end of the season, the current top five of Liverpool, Arsenal<\/a>, Nottingham Forest, Newcastle and Manchester City<\/a> would all earn a passage directly into the initial stage of the Champions League.<\/p>\n

English football also has three more guaranteed European slots, two in the Europa League plus one in the Conference League.<\/p>\n

But only one of those places, the second Europa League spot, would normally be awarded by a Prem finish, with the winners of the FA Cup<\/a> and Carabao Cup<\/a> respectively taking the automatic entries.<\/p>\n

However, a Wembley Final triumph for City or semi-final opponents Forest, or for Villa if they win the Champions League, will mean the place would revert to the Prem table.<\/p>\n

With Newcastle having won the Carabao Cup, their qualification for the Champions League would open the place in the third-tier competition.<\/p>\n

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If Chelsea win the Conference League AND qualify for Europe through their League position, England would have a maximum of 10 sides in continental action.<\/p>\n

However, if Enzo Maresca\u2019s Blues blow up in the Prem but still win the Conference League it would open up the path for a remarkable English battalion next term.<\/p>\n

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta will be missing four defensive starters for a mammoth Champions League quarter final <\/p>\n

That could see Europa League football for Fulham<\/a> and Brighton, with Bournemouth<\/a> squeezing into the Conference League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE PREM could still have 11 teams in Europe next season – although it needs Aston Villa to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[161,102,1614,885,12765,1811,94,763,886,3047,189,79,201,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-19480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-aston-villa","10":"tag-champions-league","11":"tag-chelsea","12":"tag-europa-conference-league","13":"tag-europa-league","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-liverpool-fc","16":"tag-manchester-city","17":"tag-newcastle-united","18":"tag-section-sportfootball","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tottenham-hotspur","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114336954130000038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}