{"id":645623,"date":"2026-05-02T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645623\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:07:11","slug":"premier-league-brentford-chasing-champions-league-could-sixth-place-be-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645623\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Brentford chasing Champions League &#8211; could sixth place be enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A very specific permutation would allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brentford\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brentford<\/a> &#8211; or whoever grabs sixth spot &#8211; to sneak into Europe&#8217;s premier competition rather than the Europa League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Premier League secured an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9vl1y7g1mjo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extra Champions League place<\/a> in April, meaning the top five will qualify for the league stage of next year&#8217;s competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sixth would also get a team into next season&#8217;s Champions League if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> win the Europa League and finish fifth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Because of the order in which Champions League berths are decided &#8211; European titles are allocated before the Premier League&#8217;s additional spot &#8211; sixth will not be good enough for the Champions League if Villa win the Europa League and finish in the top four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, Villa will qualify via their league position and the place reserved for the Europa League winners will pass to the league champions in qualifying with the best Uefa coefficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That could be Rangers if they win the Scottish Premiership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brentford\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brentford<\/a> fans should keep an eye on Villa&#8217;s Europa League semi-final against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/nottingham-forest\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Villa lost the first leg 1-0 but are at home for the second leg on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winners will face Braga or Freiburg in the final on 20 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A very specific permutation would allow Brentford &#8211; or whoever grabs sixth spot &#8211; to sneak into Europe&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-645623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}