According to the regulations of the Italian Football Association, the Italian Cup winner will be eligible to participate in the European League. On April 3, according to the Italian website Football and Finance, according to the new rules of UEFA, the Italian Cup champion team may win the Champions League from 2024, but only for the big teams with the top European points.
Compared with the current 32 places in the Champions League, expanding to 36 teams may bring a revolution, which may affect the cup competitions in different countries. Among these four new places, the first place comes from the third team in the national league, which ranks fifth in UEFA points, and the second place comes from the promotion places of the Champions League qualifying group.
The number of places will be increased from four to five, and the last two places will be allocated to the team with the highest club coefficient in the past five years, which has qualified for the Champions League play-offs, Europa League or UEFA Cup, but has not qualified for the Champions League.
Introduction to the European League competition system and lottery rules;
I. Introduction to the Competition System
The Europa League is divided into three parts: qualification stage, play-off stage and race stage. There are 32 clubs participating in the group competition, which are divided into 8 groups; The second place in the Europa League play-off (8 teams) played against the third place in the Champions League (8 teams), and the winning 8 teams played against the first place in the Europa League (8 teams) in the final of 1/8; In the UEFA play-off, the third team (the eighth team) of the UEFA team played against the second team (the eighth team) of the UEFA team, and the winning eight teams participated in the UEFA knockout.
Second, the lottery rules
1, group match
Thirty-two teams are divided into four grades according to the "European points", and each group consists of one team at the first, second, third and fourth grades. Teams from the same association will not be assigned to the same group.
2. knockout stage
Europa league group match 2 vs champions league group match 3. There will be no meeting with the association team during the draw, and the second round will be held at the home of the second team of the Europa League group.
3, 1/8 finally
The winner of UEFA Group's first knockout match against UEFA will not meet the association team in the draw, and the second round will be held at the home of UEFA Group's first team.