Why do groups get an additional Champions League spot?
As of 2024, UEFA has modified the Champions League so it has elevated in dimension from 32 to 36 groups and has modified to a league part format which incorporates play-off video games to get into the final-16.
Additionally, as of the 2024-25 season, groups in Europe have been capable of have greater than 4 groups within the Champions League because of the brand new Champions League format permitting for extra groups from Europe’s high 5 leagues to play on the highest degree in midweek.
How are the Bundesliga golf equipment faring this season?
The present standings in coefficient following the last-16 video games within the UEFA Champions League is as follows:
England – 24.250
Spain – 21.678
Italy – 19.937
Germany – 17.921
Portugal – 16.250
As it’s to be seen, Germany is kind of far behind England in high spot (who’re nearly assured of getting a fifth Champions League spot) and a good quantity behind Spain.
That is largely as a result of poor efficiency of groups like RB Leipzig and VfB Stuttgart within the Champions League preliminary league part as each groups exited with the primary of two solely successful a single recreation.
Additionally, the all-German match-up of Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich within the last-sixteen has harmed the coefficient because it decreased the possibility of extra German groups making it via to the quarter-finals.
At the moment, the probabilities of getting a fifth spot within the UCL are extremely slim however a run to the Europa League closing for Eintracht Frankfurt and a possible German finalist out of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund may result in hope for one more spot.