Maler, eliminated three times. Czech football will only have five seats in Europe as a spectator

It should be recognized that the Czechs, thanks to the participation of three teams in the group stage, showed a winning autumn in points. The gain of 6,750 is the highest of the last five seasons of which the national coefficient is composed. In the current year they are in 10th place in Europe. Traditionally, Slavia (10.5) made the largest contribution, Pilsen (9.5) and Slovácko (6.5) contributed the most. Sparta (0.5) was the only renegade.

However, the overall coefficient is much more important. There is a lot at stake. The Czech Republic entered the cup season due to a drop in the standings for the first time since 2014/15 with only four representatives. Currently it is a question of deployment until the year before the next, for the 2023/24 season it has already been decided that national football will again send only four representatives.

The current 14th place would guarantee the national teams a return to five places in the European Cup in the 2024/25 season. The problem is that the Czech coefficient will not improve after three eliminations in the spring. Conversely, Norway still has Bodö / Glimt (KL), Ukraine Shakhtar (EL) and Dnipro (KL), Denmark and then Midtjylland (EL). At the same time, only one of these three countries can overtake the Czech Republic to remain in the fifteenth elite, which is extremely uncertain.

“It is clearly unpleasant. We wanted to take a lot more points from the group and go in the spring also for the coefficient. Europe is not easy for the Czech teams, there are not many teams that have managed to stay in Europe even in the spring season in the last few years. five or six years. It is not easy to get out of the groups, then the coefficient depends on that “, sums up Jindřich Trpišovský, Slavia coach.

The seamstresses have obtained almost half of the five-year coefficient, their share is 46.9%.

“We have managed to contribute regularly with a large number of points in previous seasons, this year the contribution is unfortunately lower. We want to be in such a position at the end of this season and be ready for the qualifiers to take the experience of the players who played in Europe for the first time this year and add more points to the coefficient. So that they can get back in the standings and bring as many teams as possible to European matches, “predicts Trpišovský.

The spring opening rounds of the cup competitions will be drawn on Monday.