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Arsenal ‘could sneak into next season’s Champions League with places in Europe to be decided by the UEFA coefficient system’ if the season cannot be concluded due to the coronavirus crisis, despite sitting NINTH
- Arsenal could receive a Champions League lifeline if the season is not over
- The Premier League has been closed for over a month due to coronavirus
- UEFA urged to decide European places for its coefficient system
- It would mean that Arsenal would join Liverpool, City and United at the European table.
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Arsenal could receive a place in next season’s Champions League if the current national campaign cannot be concluded due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The national federations that are members of the European football governing body met on Tuesday for a conference call for an update on ‘a variety of calendar options’ to complete the 2019-20 season and UEFA again urged them to do their best to complete his league and cup competitions
But if the Premier League can’t be concluded due to the current suspension of football, it could offer Arsenal a huge boost in terms of a return to Europe’s top table, despite Mikel Arteta being ninth in the table. the highest category.
Arsenal could end up in the Champions League next season if the season can’t be ended
UEFA’s coefficient system would mean Leicester would fall in Europa League spots
According to The Sun, that’s because UEFA is being urged to order associations to use the coefficient scores as a method of determining which teams play which European competitions next season.
The coefficient is calculated on the results of the clubs competing in the previous five seasons of the Champions League and the Europa League.
It means the Gunners would move up to the top four alongside Liverpool, Manchester City, and Manchester United.
Tottenham, Chelsea and Leicester would have to settle for a place in the Europa League, while Wolves and Sheffield United would miss out on continental football entirely.
If the city’s two-year ban on European competition is maintained, the Spurs would benefit from replacing them in the top four.
Although they have emphasized their desire to see the competitions concluded, UEFA has opened the door to the cancellation of national league and cup competitions ‘in special cases’ due to the coronavirus pandemic.
UEFA had previously warned that national leagues that cancel their seasons prematurely risked their clubs being excluded from their competitions in the future, but may now consider allowing the reduction of campaigns.
UEFA wants the leagues and cups to end to determine European teams for next season
“It was strongly recommended that the first division and cup national competitions be terminated, but some special cases will be heard once the guidelines for participation in European competitions have been developed, in the event of a canceled league,” a statement from UEFA.
UEFA said any decision on those guidelines would be announced after Thursday’s meeting of its executive committee.
Eredivisie confirmed that the current campaign was canceled after the Prime Minister of the Netherlands previously announced that professional football matches could not be played for another four months.
If the Eredivisie season were to be canceled, it would follow the Belgian top flight by declaring that the campaign ended.
The Belgian top flight broke ranks from the rest of Europe and called for the immediate end of the 2019-20 campaign with just one game in the regular season before the play-offs, which generally determine the championship winner and Europa League places. . .
