But teams participating in the Champions League are generally champions, especially some leagues that are not strong enough. Except for the five major leagues in Europe, all other countries are champions to participate in the Champions League qualifiers.
There is also the Europa League, now also called the Europa League. It is the strongest cup after the Champions League.
Teams that qualify for the Champions League cannot participate in the Europa League in the same season. The European League is the second largest club competition in Europe after the European Champions Cup, formerly known as the UEFA Cup. Its trophy is called the Bertoni trophy.
The top two teams in each group of the Europa League will participate in the knockout round of the top 32 in the spring together with the third team in the eighth group of the Champions League.
Member countries ranked 7th-9th in the league ranking system of various countries can send 1 team champion plus 3 teams to participate in the competition, while other member countries can send 1 team champion plus 2 teams to participate in the competition, but Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino can only send 1 team champion to participate in the competition.
Usually, member countries will choose the team that ranks immediately behind the team that participated in the European Champions Cup as a place other than the cup champion, but England and France will still reserve a place for the Carling Cup champion.
Extended data:
The road to champion:
UEFA Association Club Coefficient Ranking 1 1 The way to the 55th Association Top League Championship.
First round of qualifiers: four teams lost out, two teams advanced, and those eliminated participated in the second round of Europa League qualifiers.
Second round of qualifiers: the winners of the first round of qualifiers will participate in the single-defeat knockout, 1 team will advance, and those eliminated will participate in the second round of Europa League qualifiers.
First round of qualifying: 33 teams+1 team won the game in both home and away rounds, 17 teams advanced, and those eliminated participated in the second round of Europa League qualifying.
Second round of qualifiers: Team 3+First round of qualifiers 17 wins both at home and away, and Team 10 advances. Those who are eliminated will participate in the third round of Europa League qualifiers.
Third round qualifying: Team 2+10 won the home and away games in the second round qualifying, team 6 advanced, and those eliminated participated in the Europa League play-offs.
Play-offs: 2 teams qualify in the third round, 6 teams win in both home and away rounds, 4 teams advance to the Champions League group stage, and the eliminated teams participate in the Europa League group stage.
The road to alliance:
The UEFA club coefficient ranks fifth and sixth, and the top league of the association ranks third and seventh to 15.
The second round of qualifiers: 6 teams participated in the home and away games, 3 teams advanced, and those eliminated participated in the third round of Europa League qualifiers.
The third round of qualifying: 5 teams+the second round of qualifying, 3 teams won two rounds of home and away games, 4 teams advanced, and the winner participated in the Europa League group stage.
Play-offs: The four teams that won the qualifying round participated in the home and away games, the two teams advanced to the Champions League group stage, and the winner participated in the Europa League group stage.
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