“The Impact of Leverkusen’s Bundesliga Placement on International Competition Qualification”

… the Werkself will play in the Champions League next season – no matter what place they finish at the end of the season. In addition, Leverkusen’s final placement in the Bundesliga influences the number of international places available.

Leverkusen has a place in the Champions League
Leverkusen’s place does not go to the fifth place in the Bundesliga, but back to UEFA, which distributes it elsewhere.

Leverkusen occupies a Europa League place
The Europa League place won also goes back to UEFA and is redistributed.

Leverkusen occupies a conference league place
The achieved conference league place is lost.

Leverkusen does not occupy a place in Europe
In this case, the whole league benefits, because now eight instead of seven teams play internationally – this happened this season after Eintracht Frankfurt won the Europa League. The remaining clubs qualify according to their final placement for the respective international competitions.