UEFA Europa Conference League
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The UEFA Europa Conference League (abbreviated as UECL), colloquially referred to as UEFA Conference League, is a planned annual football club competition held by UEFA for eligible European football clubs.[1] Clubs will qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. It will be the third tier of European club football, after the Champions League and the Europa League.
The competition is scheduled to run from the 2021–22 season, and will serve as the bottom level of the existing UEFA Europa League competition, which is due to be reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage. The competition will primarily be contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations.[1]
No teams will qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions
Qualification
Similar to the UEFA Champions League, qualification to the Europa Conference League will be split into two Paths – the Champions Path and the League Path. Unlike the Champions League, however, the Champions Path will only be contested by teams which lost the qualification for the Champions League group stage and consequently have been relegated directly into the UEFA Europa Conference League.
The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams in the league path for each association:[6]
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method5/crank2021.html
Based on this reorganisation, no association will benefit from more berths to continental football than they had before the 2021–24 competition cycle, with the tournament essentially being the lower orders of the existing Europa League tournament but split off into a secondary tournament.
Group stage and knockout phase
The format will see eight groups of four teams, followed by the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. An additional preliminary knockout round will be played before the round of 16 between teams ranked second in their groups and the third-ranked teams of the UEFA Europa League groups. The new competition will feature 141 matches over 15 match weeks.[2] 56 teams will take part
The winner of the new competition will be entitled to participate in the UEFA Europa League in the following season.
The new competition matches will be played on Thursdays.[2]
Teams in the UECL
For the group stage? Well... no one yet. There's a play-off round to get in - the teams who have made that are Tottenham Hotspur, Roma, Union Berlin, Rennes and Villarreal (assuming they don't win the Europa League final against Man United).
Pacos de Ferreira, Rubin Kazan, Anderlecht, Kolos Kovalivka, Vitesse, Trabzonspor and LASK are all in the third qualifying round for the competition. One of the Champions League first qualifying round losers will drop into this stage of the Conference League qualification process.
In the Second Qualifying Round, you've got the likes of Feyenoord, Hibernian, Aberdeen, AEK Athens, Basel, Rosenborg, BATE and Qarabag. Below that in the First Qualifying Round, you've got Maribor, Dundalk, Bohemians, Sligo Rovers and The New Saints.
As is with the other competitions, losing in the qualification of the Europa League means you can drop into the Conference League.
www.fourfourtwo.com
Very soon the Super League will happen.
Imagine Juve, City, Barca..... one day playing in the UECL coz they had a bad season....
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UEFA Europa Conference League (abbreviated as UECL), colloquially referred to as UEFA Conference League, is a planned annual football club competition held by UEFA for eligible European football clubs.[1] Clubs will qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. It will be the third tier of European club football, after the Champions League and the Europa League.
The competition is scheduled to run from the 2021–22 season, and will serve as the bottom level of the existing UEFA Europa League competition, which is due to be reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage. The competition will primarily be contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations.[1]
No teams will qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions
Qualification
Similar to the UEFA Champions League, qualification to the Europa Conference League will be split into two Paths – the Champions Path and the League Path. Unlike the Champions League, however, the Champions Path will only be contested by teams which lost the qualification for the Champions League group stage and consequently have been relegated directly into the UEFA Europa Conference League.
The association ranking based on the UEFA country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams in the league path for each association:[6]
- Nations ranked 1 to 5 will have one team;
- Nations ranked 6 to 15 will have two teams;
- Nations ranked 16 to 50 will have three teams;
- Nations ranked 51 to 55 will have two teams;
- Liechtenstein does not have a domestic league and will provide the winner of the Liechtenstein Football Cup irrespective of their coefficient ranking.
https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method5/crank2021.html
Based on this reorganisation, no association will benefit from more berths to continental football than they had before the 2021–24 competition cycle, with the tournament essentially being the lower orders of the existing Europa League tournament but split off into a secondary tournament.
Group stage and knockout phase
The format will see eight groups of four teams, followed by the round of 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and final. An additional preliminary knockout round will be played before the round of 16 between teams ranked second in their groups and the third-ranked teams of the UEFA Europa League groups. The new competition will feature 141 matches over 15 match weeks.[2] 56 teams will take part
The winner of the new competition will be entitled to participate in the UEFA Europa League in the following season.
The new competition matches will be played on Thursdays.[2]
Teams in the UECL
For the group stage? Well... no one yet. There's a play-off round to get in - the teams who have made that are Tottenham Hotspur, Roma, Union Berlin, Rennes and Villarreal (assuming they don't win the Europa League final against Man United).
Pacos de Ferreira, Rubin Kazan, Anderlecht, Kolos Kovalivka, Vitesse, Trabzonspor and LASK are all in the third qualifying round for the competition. One of the Champions League first qualifying round losers will drop into this stage of the Conference League qualification process.
In the Second Qualifying Round, you've got the likes of Feyenoord, Hibernian, Aberdeen, AEK Athens, Basel, Rosenborg, BATE and Qarabag. Below that in the First Qualifying Round, you've got Maribor, Dundalk, Bohemians, Sligo Rovers and The New Saints.
As is with the other competitions, losing in the qualification of the Europa League means you can drop into the Conference League.
Champions League 2021/22: Which European clubs qualified for the competition?
Juventus and Borussia Dortmund were facing a year away from the top table - who made the Champions League?
www.fourfourtwo.com
Very soon the Super League will happen.
Imagine Juve, City, Barca..... one day playing in the UECL coz they had a bad season....
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