What happens if the UEFA Champions League winners have also qualified for the league phase via their domestic league position?
segunda-feira, 28 de abril de 2025
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What happens if the 2024/25 UEFA Champions League winners have already earned a league phase place via their domestic league position?
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The 2024/25 UEFA Champions League winners will automatically qualify for next season's league phase, but what happens if they have also earned a place via their domestic league position?
Last updated: 09:00 CET on Monday 28 April
One of the main principles of the new European club competition format post-2024 is the important role of the club coefficient – namely, a club's performance in European club competitions over the current five-year period.
It is for this reason that should the Champions League winners have also qualified for the league phase via their domestic league position, the club with the best individual coefficient of all the domestic champions involved in qualifying (the domestic champions of the national associations ranked 11 to 55*) will enter the league phase directly instead of the original round they had qualified for according to the access list.
Note that the domestic title winners from associations one to ten will have already automatically qualified for the league phase.
What does this mean in practice?
The top ten coefficients for the current league leaders from associations 11–55 are as follows:
Olympiacos (GRE) – 56.500 (champions)
Bodø/Glimt** (NOR) – 49.000 (champions)
Copenhagen (DEN) – 44.875
Crvena Zvezda (SRB) – 44.000 (champions)
Ferencváros (HUN) – 39.000
Celtic (SCO) – 38.000 (champions)
Slovan Bratislava (SVK) – 33.500
Basel (SUI) – 33.000
Qarabağ (AZE) – 32.000 (champions)
Ludogorets (BUL) – 24.000 (champions)
The top ten coefficients for all clubs from associations 11–55 are as follows:
Rangers (SCO) – 71.250 (2nd in domestic league)
Olympiacos (GRE) – 56.500 (champions)
GNK Dinamo (CRO) – 56.000 (3rd)
Shakhtar (UKR) – 52.000 (3rd)
Bodø/Glimt** (NOR) – 49.000 (champions)
Salzburg (AUT) – 48.000 (4th)
Copenhagen (DEN) – 44.875 (1st)
Crvena Zvezda (SRB) – 44.000 (champions)
PAOK (GRE) – 42.250 (3rd)
Ferencváros (HUN) – 39.000 (1st)
**Denotes clubs still participating in European club competition
Olympiacos would qualify as it stands
As Greek Super League champions, Olympiacos would, as it stands, take the UEFA Champions League winners' league phase berth should such rebalancing be required. This is because they have the highest coefficient of all the clubs currently top of their domestic leagues from associations 11–55. The access list would subsequently be rebalanced accordingly.
It is important to underline that this ongoing process will take place simultaneously within the domestic competitions that will determine the national champion of each country as well as the knockout rounds in the European competitions, since some of the eligible clubs are participating in the European club competitions and therefore still have the potential to enhance their overall coefficient.
*Note that as Liechtenstein does not have its own domestic league, its clubs play in the Swiss football league system.