Uefa s most powerful officials will discuss the growing impact of the. Qualification for next season s champions league and europa league must be on sporting merit according to uefa regulations. If a premier league club win the uefa champions league and another win the uefa europa league and neither finish in the top four the club lying fourth in the premier league will drop into the uefa europa league group stage.
A maximum of five premier league teams are eligible for uefa champions league qualification. The efl cup winners qualify for the second qualifying round. The winners of the fa cup qualify for the group stage proper.
The fifth placed team in the premier league qualify for the group stage proper. In normal circumstances three uel places are given to english clubs who fulfil the following criteria. Uefa europa league uel qualification.
The european section of the 2018 fifa world cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 fifa world cup which was held in russia for national teams that are members of the union of european football associations uefa apart from russia who qualified automatically as hosts a total of 13 slots in the final tournament were available for uefa teams. The competition is linked with the 2018 19 uefa nations league giving countries a secondary route to qualify. The uefa euro 2020 qualifying tournament is a football competition that is being played from march 2019 to november 2020 to determine the 24 uefa member men s national teams that will advance to the uefa euro 2020 final tournament to be staged across europe in june and july 2021.
Uefa works to promote protect and develop european football.