After another successful performance in Thursday’s matches of the basic groups of the European League, Czech football clubs moved up to 18th place in the ranking of UEFA national coefficients.
At the same time, they again slightly reduced the deficit to the 15th position, securing the last five participants in the cups. The Czech teams are losing 2,825 points to the currently 15th Denmark. However, the shift to the elite fifteen remains not very real.
Czech clubs fell to 21st place at the beginning of this cup year due to the reading of results for the above-average 2015/16 season. However, in the basic group of the European League, they won two of the three matches for the third time in a row on Thursday and are moving up the rankings. They are currently ahead of Switzerland.
Thanks to the victory of Slavia nad Beer Ševou 3: 0 and the victory of Liberec 2: 1 in Ghent, domestic teams reduced the loss to the elite fifteen by 0.425 points. Sparta lost 1: 2 in Lille and won nothing this time. Two points are awarded for winning the main stage of the cups, one for a draw. The profit is divided by the number of representatives in the cups, in the Czech case five.
The deployment for the next season is 2022/23. In the year 2021/22, Czech football is still sure of five participants in the cups, as it has narrowly stayed in the top 15 after last season.
In order for domestic clubs to return to the top 15, three more countries would have to skip. The fourteenth Cyprus and just the fifteenth Denmark have only one team before the last round of groups in the game, and their remaining representative can no longer advance to the spring part of the cups, which will be played by Slavia. Also, the sixteenth Serbia is credited with points for only one unit – Crvena zvezda Belgrade, which secured the promotion. Seventeenth Greece has three teams in the game, only Olympiakos Piraeus has the hope of participating in the spring phase.
The trio of Slavia, Sparta and Liberec would have to gain at least 15 points more this season than the Danish Midtjylland or the Cypriot Omonia Nicosia. Compared to one of the competitors, the Czech representatives would have to achieve at least seven more wins and one draw.
At the same time, the Czech trio would have to play at least six points more than Crvena zvezda, as domestic clubs are currently losing 1.2 points to Serbia. Greece is already in sight, you only need to play a draw to catch up. At the same time, the Czech teams have to keep the nineteenth Switzerland under them, losing only 0.075 points. The move to 15th place thus remains unrealistic.
Compared to last season, the Czech teams are doing much better in the cups. They have already scored 24 points this year, which is, for example, the same as the twelfth Ukraine and the most from the 13th place together with Israel, which is currently in the 21st position. Slavia and Liberec have so far contributed 8.5 points, Sparta four, Plzeň 2.5 and Jablonec half a point.
If domestic clubs are unable to return to the elite 15, they will only play cups in four next season and will lose one place in the Champions League qualification. Only the champion would go to the prestigious competition, the remaining three would be waiting for the European Confederation League, which will have its premiere from next year. In the 2021/22 season, two of the five Czech representatives will go to it, the first two teams from the domestic league will have the qualification of the Champions League and one team the European League.
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