A) Each of the three football associations has four places to participate (the third runner-up in the championship and three or four in the qualifiers).
B) Each of the three football associations has three places to participate (the third runner-up in the championship and the third runner-up in the qualifiers).
C) Each of the nine football associations has two places to participate in the competition (among them, the top three football associations will participate in the competition, the runner-up will participate in the qualifying competition, and the champions and runners-up of the other six football associations will participate in the qualifying competition).
D) Other football associations each have 1 quota (champions will participate in the qualifiers),
E) If the defending team fails to qualify for the Champions League by ranking in the domestic league, UEFA will grant it the qualification for the Champions League according to the requirements of the National Football Association.
The directly elected 15 club and the 16 team that won the third qualifying round plus a team from the country that won the Champions League last season participated in the direct election.
2. The allocation of places in the UEFA Cup is as follows:
A) The two football associations each have four places.
B)b) 12 The Football Association has three places each.
C) Each of the three football associations has 1 quota.
D) Other football associations each have 2 places.
E) The defending team, if it fails to qualify for any European club competition through the ranking of domestic leagues, and UEFA allows it to participate in the UEFA Cup at the request of the National Football Association;
F) Three clubs are based on UEFA fair play scores and three clubs are based on UEFA International Toto Cup;
H) Eight clubs that won the third place in the Champions League group stage will join the UEFA Cup 32-0/6 round.
Qualifications-All leagues organized by UEFA are eligible except Liechtenstein (which has no leagues). The number of teams each country can send is determined by its league points in UEFA. 1-3 has 4 seats, 4-6 has 3 seats, 7- 15 has 2 seats, and 16 and above have only 1 seat. Similarly, according to the score coefficient of the League of Nations, it is decided whether the team with a certain ranking in the League of Nations will directly participate in the competition, or start from qualifying, and from which round of qualifying. In addition, there is one seat reserved for the defending champion. If the team fails to enter the race through the League of Nations ranking, then he is also eligible to participate in the Champions League. However, there is one exception. UEFA stipulates that no more than four teams can participate in the same country. If the team has four places in the league, it will participate in the UEFA Cup.
In the reform plan adopted by UEFA, 32 Champions League seats have not changed, but the participants have changed. At present, the Champions League seats are "16+ 16", that is, 16 teams directly enter the group stage, and 16 teams enter the group stage through qualifying.
From 2009 to 20 12, this model will become "22+5+5", that is to say, the number of teams directly entering the group stage will increase from 16 to 22, and the added six teams include the third place in the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A, and 10 in Europe to 65433. The remaining 10 seats will be divided into two parts. The first part is that 65,438+05 teams from the top 65,438+05 leagues in Europe compete for five seats, while the other five seats belong to teams from 40 leagues ranked 65,438+03 to 53 in Europe, except Liechtenstein, which has no leagues.
In addition to the change of seats, the time of the Champions League competition has also been greatly adjusted, the most important of which is the time of the final. In the past 50 years, the Champions League finals have been held on Wednesday, but the final of the 2009-20 10 season will be held on Saturday, and the kick-off time has not changed.