The two leagues currently on course to earn extra Champions League spot
The Premier League is on course to miss out on a fifth Champions League qualifying berth, with Serie A and Bundesliga currently ranking higher in UEFA's association club coefficients system.
That would mean that fifth-place Tottenham Hotspur, at the time of writing, would compete in next season's Europa League, with Bologna and RB Leipzig the two sides from Italy and Germany who would be elevated into the top tier of European competition.
Four additional spots are available for the 2024/25 edition of the Champions League, which will see the competition reformatted into a new 36-team league format.
Two of the four places available are based on a country's coefficient ranking — a system that rewards the best collective performance by clubs in UEFA men's club competitions — and these slots are known as the 'European Performance Spots'.
An additional two places are up for grabs — one to the club ranked third in the championship of the association in fifth position in the access list (France), and a fifth spot (up from four) from teams who come through the champions path of the qualifying phase — that consists of three qualifying rounds and the play-offs.
The current co-efficient system ranks Italy on 103,000 points from seven clubs participating in Europe, averaging out at 14.714. Germany score 97,500 from seven teams, averaging 13,928, while England rank third with a 111,000 coefficients points total (from eight clubs participating in European competition) to average 13,875. Spain and France trail in fourth and fifth places.
Route / Qualify from
Places Available
2023/24 Champions League winner
1
2023/24 Europa League winner
1
England, Spain, Germany, Italy
4 (x4)
France
3
Netherlands
2
Portugal, Belgium, Scotland, Austria
1 (x4)
European
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