With the victories of Tottenham Por 3-1 Ante El Bodø/Glimt and that of Manchester United 0-3 against Athletic Bilbao, Everything seems to indicate that the Europa League final will be among English teams and, therefore, the Premier will have six teams competing in Champions next season.
Being both Tottenham and United in the middle part of the tabletheir options to qualify for European competition seem tiny, but win the Europa League I could open the doors that seemed closed. And is that, The Europa League winning team gets a direct pass to the Champions League.
Premier League table
An unprecedented situation: six teams from the same league in Champions
Given the possibility that an English team is the Europa League champion, a Situation never given before: that the same country had six teams disputing the same edition of the Champions League. All this is due to New European competition formatin which teams can classify through three different ways: The Champions squares assigned to its league, the extra square that grants the UEFA coefficient to its league and the achievement of the Europa League.
Therefore, if the situation is maintained as it is currently in the Premier and if there are no big surprises in the Tour of Semis de Europa League, Six English teams would play the Champions League next season. Liverpool, Arsenal, Newcastle and Manchester City would qualify directly through the four guaranteed champions seats for the Premier League. Chelsea, in fifth position, would be the beneficiary of the Extra Plaza granted by the UEFA Ranking to the Premier. And finally, or Tottenham or Manchester United would achieve direct classification thanks to being Europa League champion.
