{"id":546465,"date":"2026-03-19T09:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546465\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:36:15","slug":"could-premier-league-clubs-miss-out-on-extra-champions-league-spot-after-disastrous-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546465\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Premier League clubs miss out on extra Champions League spot after disastrous week?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top 10 current table revealed\u00a0<\/p>\n

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As European football enters it’s crucial knockout stages, the continental game really begins to heat up. Every match matters. But it’s not just team’s hopes in this season’s Champions League<\/a>, Europa League<\/a> and Europa Conference League<\/a> themselves that they are fighting for. UEFA offers two European Performance Spots (EPS) for the two nations which perform best in this season’s competitions. That means that fifth place in two of the domestic tables could go from being a Europa League place to a ticket into the Champions League next term – Newcastle<\/a> benefited this way in the Premier League<\/a> last season.<\/p>\n

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\nHow do European Performance Spots work?<\/p>\n

To work out who are the most successful nations, UEFA takes into consideration the overall performance of all clubs in either the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League. It creates an average by taking the total coefficient score and dividing it by the number of clubs each league has in European competition. So for example if the Premier League has a total score of 185. Divide that by the nine clubs in Europe and you get an average of 20.56. The top two leagues in the table then get an extra place in the Champions League.<\/p>\n

Each win – regardless of the competition – is worth two coefficient points. A draw is worth one. The key differential is in bonus points, which are awarded based on clubs’ finishing positions – these are much higher in the Champions League. For example, the teams that finish 25th-36th in the Champions League got six bonus points despite being eliminated. Yet, the team who finished top of the Conference League table received just four points. Bonus points for progressing through the knockout rounds are also weighted. In the Champions League it is 1.5, Europa League 1, and Conference League 0.5. So who is currently leading the race?<\/p>\n

The race for extra Champions League places<\/p>\n

To no great surprise, the Premier League leads the way with a current coefficient average score of 23.51, despite a pretty disastrous week in the Champions League. Just five of the nine English teams now remain in their respective European competition. In second place comes LaLiga, with a score of 18.91 and with six of the eight Spanish teams that began the season playing European football, still competing. Narrowly behind in third is the Bundesliga with a score of 18.43 and four of the seven German teams still in Europe. The Serie A<\/a> is fourth with 17.93 and three of the seven Italian teams remaining in their respective tournaments.<\/p>\n

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Portugal complete the top five with a score of 17.80 and three of the five teams remaining in Europe. France are down in sixth with a score of 15.96, with four Ligue 1<\/a> teams still in Europe. Surprisingly, Poland are actually seventh with a coefficient average of 15.25 despite just two of their four teams remaining in Europe. Greece (13.70), Denmark (12.25) and Cyprus (12.16) complete the current top 10. However, every matchday we will see this table change.<\/p>\n

\nA disastrous week for English teams – could it cost PL?<\/p>\n

After their dominance in the league phase, many expected the Premier League’s financial muscle to be on show again in the knockout stages. However, a very different story unfolded in the round of 16, with not a single English team winning their opening tie, and only Arsenal and Liverpool progressing. There were heavy defeats for all of Manchester City, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle.<\/p>\n

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Despite all of this, it would still be extremely unlikely that the Premier League misses out on either of the top two spots, but it was also a bad week in the other European competitions last week; Aston Villa were the only English team to win after their 1-0 victory against Lille, whilst Nottingham Forest lost 1-0 at home to Midtjylland and Crystal Palace drew 0-0 at home AEK Larnaca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top 10 current table revealed\u00a0 \u00a9IMAGO As European football enters it’s crucial knockout stages, the continental game really…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35904,49,48,10618,17729,574,10827,82,32327],"class_list":["post-546465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bundesliga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-laliga","tag-ligue-1","tag-premier-league","tag-serie-a","tag-sports","tag-uefa-champions-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}