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FRF presented the new structure and calendar of European competitions established by UEFA for the season 2021-2022.
Romania, 4 teams in the European Cups in the 2021/2022 season: Champion, in the Champions League. 2nd, 3rd place and Cup winner in the Conference League
“With the adoption of the decisions of the UEFA Executive Committee on September 24, 2020, the structure, format, calendar and commercial concept of the three European Cups, the 2021-2024 cycle, were finalized. UEFA Champions League (UCL) remained unchanged, Major changes have been made to the UEFA Europa League (UEL), while the announced establishment of the UEFA Europa Conference League (UECL) has also been made official, and the so-called “roster Access “was announced yesterday. the first of three competitive seasons, namely 2021-2022.
Being ranked 28th in the UEFA coefficient rankings, Romania will send only one team (2020-2021 season champion) in UCL, the other three (i.e. second and third place occupants as well as the winner Romanian Cup) will line up shortly after the start of UECL.
This means that we are talking about the second preliminary round, only that without accumulated points in the near future, we could be in danger of falling to position 29, occupied by Poland (which means two teams: the winner of the Cup and the place 2 of the championship – in the second preliminary round and one, that is, the occupant of the third position in the championship, in the first qualifying round).
Not to mention the 30th ranked country (currently Slovakia), which will send the three UECL representatives in the first preliminary round. The effect would be, in 2022 and possibly in the following years, to start the fight in the first preliminary round ”, is displayed on the cited site.
The Romanian champions advance to the 1st preliminary round of the Champions League
Conform UEFA, the preliminaries matches will no longer be played in a single round, as of the 2021-2022 season they will return to matches Round Trip depending on the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic.
The team that will prevail in the championship League I at the end of the current season will start in the first preliminary round (Q1) of Champions League, scheduled for July 6/7 and 13/14, 2021. respectively, after the preliminary round, in the form of a mini-tournament, on June 22 (semifinals) and June 25, 2021 (final), where The champions of the states of Kosovo, the Faroe Islands, Andorra and San Marino participate.
The winners advance to the second preliminary round, while the losers advance to the third preliminary round of the European League and so. The following preliminary rounds of Champions League It will be played on the following dates: preliminary round 2 on July 20/21 and July 27/28, 2021, respectively, preliminary round 3 on August 3/4 and 10, 2021, play-off on 17/18 and 24/25 August 2021.
Regarding the group stage Champions League, is dated September 14/15 (stage 1 – MD1), September 28/29 (MD2), October 19/20 (MD3), November 2/3 (MD4), November 23/24 (MD5 ) and December 7/8 (MD6). The knockout phase will begin, in 2022, with the final eighths (extended for four weeks, from February 15/16), followed by the other phases, until the final on May 28, 2022.
Romania will have a representative in the Europa League only if the champion team loses in the Champions League preliminaries.
In the 2021-2022 edition a European League (UEL) will be just 32 teams, compared to the 48 currently facing each other. In the 2021-2024 cycle, there will be 8 groups of 4 teams each, who will play each other, at home and away, this phase will be followed by the round of 16 (the winners of the eight groups will qualify directly), the quarterfinals. final, semifinals and final.
An additional round, called the playoffs, will be played prior to the round of 16. There will be eight head-to-head matches in each of them, with one team ranked 2nd in the Europa League groups and one ranked 3rd in the Champions League groups playing . The teams that triumph in these doubles will, in turn, enter the eighth Europa League.
The winner of the Europa League in the final scheduled for May 18, 2022 will automatically qualify for the group stage of the next edition of the Champions League.
In the group stage of the Europa League, edition 2021-2022, 11 teams will qualify directly (Cup Champion and 5th place in the championship of the countries of 1-4 places in the ranking of coefficients UEFA – I mean Spain, England, Germany Y Italy + Winner of the Cup and 4th place in the national championship in 5th place France + Winner of sixth place in the Country Cup – Portugal). The other 20 teams will come from qualifications. It is a race that will be directly targeted Romania only if the league champion will not be able to reach the groups Champions League.
Romania’s representatives in the Conference League will start from the second preliminary round
The new UEFA competition, Europa Conference LeagueIt will have 32 teams in the group stage (8 groups of 4 each), which will be followed by the round of 16, the quarter-finals, the semi-finals and the final.
The round of 16 will be preceded by the play-off (8 round-trip matches), where an occupant of the 2nd group places and 3rd place in the Europa League groups will play.
winner Europe Leagu ConferenceThey will qualify automatically in the next edition of the group stage. European League.
It should be noted that not all 32 teams will come from the Europa Conference League playoffs. 10 will reach the group stage after being eliminated from the Europa League play-off, another 5 from the so-called “route of the champions of the Europa Conference League” (three days, in which they will participate eliminated from the Champions League and Europa League). which means that the preliminaries (main route) will give a number of only 17 qualified. Additionally, 3 of the teams in the playoffs will be eliminated from the Europa League 3rd preliminary round.
The three representatives of Romania will participate in the race in second preliminary round (July 22 and 29, 2021, respectively), after the first qualifying round will be played on July 8 and 15, respectively.
Then the program Europa Conference League will be similar to that of European League: August 5 and 12 (preliminary round 3), August 19 and 26 (play-off), followed by the group stage: September 16 (MD1), September 30 (MD2), October 21 (MD3) , November 4 (MD4)), November 25 (MD5) and December 9 (MD6). The eliminatory play-offs are scheduled for February 17 and 24, 2022, with the next phases (starting with the round of 16) as the final point of the final on May 25, 2022.
UEFA established that European Super Cup to be played on August 11, 2021.
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Tags: European League , FRF , Champions League , uefa , conference league
