Premier League Secure Extra Champions League Slot For 2025-26 Season
The Premier League will have an extra Champions League slot for the 2025-26 season after securing one of the extra places for performance by clubs across the three European competitions.
UEFA announced last season that two leagues will be rewarded with a European Performance Spot (EPS), as part of the plans to expand the Champions League to a 36-team competition.
The Premier League needed one win or two draws to seal one of the spots which was sealed with Arsenal’s impressive 3-0 win over Real Madrid.
Due to the performances of Premier League clubs in all of UEFA’s competitions this season, England is now guaranteed a top-two spot in UEFA’s association club coefficient rankings.
The fifth place team in the Premier League will now qualify for the Champions League next season.
There is a battle for Champions League places in the Premier League between Chelsea, Newcastle United, and Manchester City.
The Stamford Bridge outfit sits fourth on the league on the same points with fifth placed Newcastle United on 53 points. The Magpies have played a game less.
If Aston Villa win the Champions League, and finish fifth, then six teams qualify for the Champions League — the top four, the Champions League titleholders and the EPS, which drops to sixth place.
The winners of this season’s Champions League and the winners of the UEFA Europa League will each be given a place in the 2025/26 Champions League, if they have not already qualified for the competition through their league positions.
It means the Premier League could potentially have as many as seven clubs in next season’s Champions League. The top five teams in the league, plus the Champions League winners, and the Europa League winners if they finish outside the top five.
Every win for a club in any of UEFA’s club competitions this season earns each league two points, while a draw gets one point, and there are no points for a defeat.
Premier League Secure Extra Champions League Slot For 2025-26 Season is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
