Earlier than this season, Crystal Palace’s victory at Wembley would have tidied up the European qualification place throughout the Premier League.
Nonetheless, England gaining a coveted European Efficiency Spot has added a layer of complication, which is why Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth and Fulham followers shouldn’t hand over hope of a Convention League place simply but.
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Right here is why.
Ordinarily, England will get 4 Champions League locations, two within the Europa League, for the FA Cup winners and the fifth positioned crew and one within the Convention League for the Carabao Cup winners.
To date, so easy.
If the Carabao Cup winners qualify for one of many greater rating European competitions, the Convention League spot goes to the subsequent crew down within the Premier League.
Simply as Manchester United or Tottenham will qualify for the Champions League as a result of considered one of them will win the Europa League after ending outdoors the Champions League locations, the identical can also be true for Chelsea in the event that they win the Convention League and end outdoors the Europa League locations.
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Nonetheless with me?
The complication comes by means of EPS. So, whereas fifth now will get you into the Champions League and sixth into the Europa League, for the needs of competitors qualification, the EPS scenario does not depend.
So, if Chelsea end sixth and win the Convention League, with out EPS, they’d already be within the Convention League berth, so that they go into the Europa League as Convention League winners and England wouldn’t take its Convention League place. With EPS added, as an alternative of the sixth-placed crew (Chelsea) qualifying for the Europa League by means of their league putting, as a result of they’re already in, the seventh-placed crew advantages. So that might be three English groups within the Europa League and none within the Convention League.
By the identical course of, if Chelsea end seventh and win the Convention League, with out EPS, they’d qualify for the Europa League regardless of being outdoors the European locations, that means three English groups within the Europa League – Chelsea, Palace and the fifth positioned crew – and one – the sixth-placed crew – within the Convention League. With EPS added, every little thing drops down a spot BUT as Chelsea are already within the Europa League, as an alternative of the Convention League spot going to them after ending seventh, it goes to the eighth positioned crew.
In different phrases, the groups battling for eighth want Chelsea to win the Convention League and to complete seventh.