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After lean years with a drop to 19th in 2021, Switzerland has surged up the UEFA ranking. So we are in 14th place in the ranking that will be used next season. In the current one we are even 13th. And it will probably stay that way. Unless FCB make it to the Conference League (ConfL) final with at least two wins and two draws. Then we would overtake Turkey. And if FCB wins the final, we will also take the Serbs and fly to 11th place. That would be rewarded with a permanent place in the Champions League (CL) for next season.
The winner of the Conference League gets to choose
On the other hand, FC Basel would be the only team that could choose where to start: in the group stage of the Europa League (EL) or in the second round of the CL qualification. Hard to believe you would do the extremely difficult Premier Class qualification. Because teams such as Dynamo Kiev, Monaco, Glasgow Rangers, PSV Eindhoven and even Benfica Lisbon (!) are waiting for the non-championship path. And then you have no safety net and you could even be without a group stage.
About Soon-Champion YB: Because Russia is likely to remain excluded, the Swiss champions will go directly to the play-offs. Namely when the winner of the CL qualifies for the premier class through their own championship. That certainly applies to five of the eight quarter-finalists and certainly not to Chelsea. The fact that Napoli, for example, as the clear leader in the series, has lost to Milan, which has to worry about a CL place in the competition, is therefore rather bad news from Bern’s point of view.
YB is definitely in a group stage…
Bernese teams like Pilsen, Dinamo Zagreb, Red Star, FC Copenhagen, Maccabi Haifa, Bodö Glimt, Karabakh and Trabzonspor would be waiting in the play-offs. YB would be safe in the EL group stage with an out.
If YB has to do it in the third CL qualifying round, the Berners have the ConfL in the worst case for sure. So there is no question of a bitter failure like last year at Anderlecht.
…Lugano as cup winner or also third
Should YB also win the cup, Lugano, who lost the final, would not inherit the spot, but third in the championship. This goes to the EL playoffs. If he loses, he definitely has the ConfL. Things get very tricky when Lugano wins the cup and comes second in the championship. Because then the Ticino would have to play in the CL qualification. You wouldn’t have the right to vote. And because you come in there in round two, you can still be bowled all the way from Europe! If Lugano wins the cup, it would almost be more lucrative to finish third in the championship. Paradox!
The only easy cases are those of the championship third and fourth. They start in the second qualifying round of ConfL and have to survive three rounds to get into the group stage. If they lose a round, they are out.
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Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
