Czech club football will have five representatives in the cups in the next 2024/25 season. After today’s victory of Lech Poznań 1:0 over Norway’s Bodö/Glimt in the rematch of the opening round of the elimination phase of the European Conference League, the domestic teams narrowly maintained 15th place in the ranking of national coefficients, which means the last five teams in UEFA competitions. The Czech Republic defended the top 15 by only 0.05 points.
Domestic football will have five representatives in the cups after a two-year hiatus. For the first time since 2014, the Czech Republic entered the current season with only four teams, and it will have the same number of teams in the upcoming year as well. Currently, there was talk of deployment until next season 2024/25.
The domestic clubs were eliminated in this year’s cups already in the fall, and all they had to do was wait for the hesitation of their competitors in the spring. The results of the Czech Republic’s closest opponents have been recorded. Ukraine narrowly got ahead of the domestic teams, which before today held the 14th place in the rankings, but another chaser from Norway failed.
The team from the city of Bodö lost in the rematch of the Conference League in Poznań with a goal in the 63rd minute 0:1 and after a goalless draw at home, they were eliminated as the last Norwegian representative in the cups. The northerners thus remained close behind the Czech Republic, and a draw would be enough for them to move into the elite fifteen.
The domestic clubs could still be threatened by the seventeenth-ranked Denmark, but its last representative, Midtjylland, was eliminated in the Europa League after a 0:4 home debacle by Sporting Lisbon. No other country in the ranking can realistically threaten the Czech Republic.
Five teams on the European stage means that three teams will go to two better cups. In addition to the champion, who will enter the game only in the final 4th preliminary round, the second team from the highest competition will also qualify for the Champions League. From the 2024/25 season, the cups will undergo a format change, instead of the traditional groups, there will be one table with all teams in the given competition.
Two points are awarded for a win in the main stage of the cups, one for a draw. The profit is divided by the number of participants of the given country, in the Czech case this season by four. Prague’s Slavia scored the most in the fall, gaining 10.5 points, Pilsen added nine and a half points.
