The champions and runners-up of UEFA's six major leagues (currently Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga and Portuguese Super League) occupy 12 seats.
UEFA 7-9 league titles, ***3 places.
In this way, the source of 16 being directly selected for the team was formed.
Other 16 teams in the Champions League need to participate in qualifiers to advance.
The qualifiers are divided into three rounds. There were 28 teams in the first round, and 14 teams directly advanced through the home and away elimination system. The teams participating in the first round of the qualifying round are all champions with low league level, such as Azerbaijan, Northern Ireland, San Marino, Andorra, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Faroe Islands and so on.
In the second round of the qualifying round, there were also 28 teams. It consists of 14 teams that advanced in the first round, plus the runner-up of UEFA10/5 and champions of UEFA 16-25, such as champions from Norway, Austria and Poland.
The third round is the 32 nd team, which is also the home and away elimination match. The winner enters the Champions League and the loser takes part in the first round of the UEFA Cup. The composition of 32 teams is 65,438+04 teams advanced from the second round, plus 65,438+08 teams that have already worshipped. This is the 18 team, the third and fourth in the five major leagues, and the seventh and ninth runner-up in UEFA.
Supplementary note: a league can only have four teams at most, like Manchester United's double champion, which saves the number of places for the UEFA league champion 10.