The direct reason is that Arsenal won the championship for seven years. In February this year, the Gunners lost to Birmingham at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and Birmingham was relegated at the end of the season. If Arsenal win, the Carling Cup will be postponed to the sixth place in the League and Liverpool will be able to play in the Europa League. But in the end, it is always the champion team that represents the Three Lions. However, Liverpool just took advantage of the relaxed schedule to win the league title.
Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal have all played in the Champions League this season.
Tottenham Hotspur, Stoke City (runner-up in the FA Cup, champion Manchester City advanced to the Champions League playoffs), Birmingham (champion in the British Championship and Carling Cup) and Fulham (the top three teams in the UEFA Fair Play Award scored the highest fair play points last year-this was earned by all English teams last year).
Among them, Arsenal, Tottenham and Fulham were shortlisted through the play-offs.
Arsenal play-offs eliminated Udinese at home 1:0 and away at 2: 1, with a total score of 3: 1, which is the only team in Udinese to become the top five in Europe with 18 Champions League team.
Tottenham 5-0 at home, 0-0 away, 5-0 in Harz, Scotland.
Fulham eliminated the unknown Ukrainian team Denibro with a total score of 3: 1 at home and 0: 1 away.
Grouping drawing
Champions League
Manchester United are in Group C with Portuguese Super Benfica, Swiss Super Basel and Romanian Otlu Galardi.
Chelsea are in Group E with Valencia, Leverkusen and Belgian Heng Ke.
Manchester City, Bayern, Submarine and Naples are in Group A, and there is a strong smell of death.
Arsenal are in Group F with Marseille, Dortmund and Olympiakos in Greece.
In the European Union
Tottenham Hotspur and Kazan Rubin (Russia), Bok (Greece) and Clover Wandering (Ireland) are in Group A..
Stoke is in Group E with Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), Besiktas (Turkey) and Macabies (Israel).
Birmingham is in Group H with Braga (Portugal), Bruges (Belgium) and maribor (Slovenia), runners-up of last year's European Championship.
Fulham and Twente (Netherlands, odense (Danish) and Krakow (Polish) are in Group K..
Champions League Group 8 and Europa League Group *** 12 are the top two after the group stage.
Champions League 1/8 knockout, the third place between the Europa League 24 expenditure team and the eight main teams in the Champions League116 knockout.
The finals will be held in Munich Allianz Stadium (20 12.5. 19) and Bucharest National Stadium (20 12.5.9) respectively.