{"id":947732,"date":"2026-05-09T06:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947732\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:27:14","slug":"rayo-vallecano-reach-conference-league-final-spain-clinch-second-in-uefa-coefficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/947732\/","title":{"rendered":"Rayo Vallecano reach Conference League final, Spain clinch second in UEFA coefficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rayo Vallecano reached the Europa Conference League final at the expense of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/strasbourg-756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strasbourg<\/a> on Thursday, a result that guarantees Spain will retain second place in UEFA\u2019s coefficient next season. It also confirms five Spanish clubs in the next Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Rayo won 1-0 on the night, having also edged the first leg 1-0. According to L&#8217;\u00c9quipe, the points from that victory made Spain uncatchable for third-placed Germany, with England still well clear this season on 28.125 compared with Spain\u2019s 22.093.<\/p>\n<p>There will therefore remain five Spanish qualifiers for the Champions League, with Betis Seville well placed to take the final spot.<\/p>\n<p>It was nearly different. Had Julio Enciso converted a 90+3 penalty and had Rayo only drawn, Spain would have had to wait a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>With Freiburg also into the Europa League final, Germany could still add more points. France sit fifth on 18.178 for the 2025-2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rayo Vallecano reached the Europa Conference League final at the expense of Strasbourg on Thursday, a result that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-947732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116543202584004050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947732","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=947732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}