2023-08-09 12:09:46
After having retained its fifth place by a hair last season, France has temporarily demoted one place in the UEFA index at the start of the 2023-2024 season, since the 2018-2019 edition is no longer counted.
While it was no longer vibrating in the European Cup through its clubs, Ligue 1 had suddenly found itself in chemistry with West Ham in the heart of the last month of May. The qualification of the English at the expense of Alkmaar in the semi-finals of the Conference League was greeted with enormous relief among supporters and authorities. It had enabled France to narrowly retain its fifth place in the UEFA index ahead of the Netherlands (which would have passed it if Alkmaar had won its last three matches in the competition).
Sixth place would change everything
This place in the European Top 5 was all the more vital as it offers four qualifying places for the new version of the Champions League (three in pool, one in the preliminary round), two in the Europa League and one in Conference League. But this joy is short-lived. In this month of August, France has already temporarily dropped one rank in the UEFA ranking, the index of which is calculated on the results of the clubs over the last five seasons.
The new coefficient thus no longer takes into account the 2018-2019 season, better for the French clubs compared to the Dutch representatives (PSG and Lyon had been eliminated in the round of 16 of the Champions League, Rennes had reached the round of 16). Europa League). France loses its advantage of 1,983 points gleaned that year (10.583 to 8.6) over the Netherlands, who take the opportunity to currently occupy fifth place. France is currently trailing by 1.219 points (51.8 for the Netherlands, 50.581 for France) and relies heavily on its representatives to shine this year, starting with Marseille, this Tuesday against Panathinaikos (8 p.m.) in the third qualifying round. go from the Champions League.
PSG and Lens are directly qualified for the group stages of the Champions League, Rennes and Toulouse will play in the Europa League while Lille will have to go through the Conference League play-offs against the winner of the match between B36 Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) and HNK Rijeka (Croatia). If France failed to regain its fifth place, it would have unfortunate consequences. Sixth place offers just three Champions League places (two of them direct) and six European places in total.
The calculation of the coefficient (according to the UEFA website):
2 points for a victory in the group stage of each competition
1 for a qualifying and play-off win in each competition
1 for a draw in the group stage of each competition
0.5 for a draw in qualification and play-off of each competition
4 for participation in the Champions League group stage
4 for participation in the knockout stages of the Champions League
4 for finishing their group in first place in the Europa League
2 for finishing their group in second place in the Europa League
2 for finishing their group in first place in the Conference League
1 for finishing their group in second place in the Conference League
1 per round passed beyond the round of 16 (Champions League, Europa League)
1 per round passed beyond the semi-finals (Conference League)
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