“The last time Sparta played in the Champions League, I was nine years old. I know who played him back then, but I don’t remember how powerful he was back then. Our current team has great strength. We followed our dream, we managed to advance to the best league in the world,” Lukáš Haraslín said emotionally before midnight on Tuesday.
He and his team beat Malmö 2:0 for the second time and after 19 years they returned the club from Letná to the company of millionaires.
In the preliminaries, the Czech champions collected five wins and one draw, thus significantly increasing their national coefficient and coefficient. Progression to the Champions League also brings extra points.
Their league rivals Slavia, Pilsen and Mladá Boleslav also progressed to the final qualifiers of European competitions. Out of the five domestic producers in Europe, only Baník was eliminated, but even before his elimination, the Czech coefficient improved slightly.
Race for an extra place in the Champions League.
🇨🇿 Czechia is the first place on one season ranking!
🇵🇹 Portugal still holds the top 2 places!
🇦🇹 Austria moved up to 3rd place!
🇩🇪 Germany now 5th, 🇮🇹 Italy is 6th!
🏴 England are now 8th, 🇪🇸 Spain is 9th! pic.twitter.com/ftfPRfKSuc
– Football Rankings (@FootRankings) August 27, 2024
After the sum of all points earned divided by the number of cup representatives, the countries look like this after Tuesday:
1. Czech Republic, 2. Portugal, 3. Austria. 4. Sweden, 5. Germany.
After the reforms of the European competitions, the importance of the season report is also increasing. The two best nations this season, just like this year, will get one place in next year’s Champions League. In the last year of the European Cup, Germany and Italy got extra places.
The football season is just starting, but hypothetically this means that the Czech league is currently playing for two straight places in the Champions League. The success of previous seasons means that the next champion will automatically look into the most prestigious club competition.
But now enough dreaming.
The current record is distorted as the best teams from England, Spain, Germany, Italy or France reach the main stages of international competitions. Summer certificates do not apply to the full cap.
The order naturally transcends and the great powers rise higher.
However, the Czech Republic can be happy that it is now surpassing somewhat more comparable footballing countries such as Portugal, the Netherlands or Belgium. There are no direct rivals from Scotland, Turkey or Israel in the fight to keep the crucial tenth place in the five-year long term among the best even in the summer!
The country’s fans can look forward to the Champions League coming to Czech lands in a year’s time. And very likely in two years.
Czech club football is going through.
2024-08-28 07:24:02
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