*Possible postponement by the DFB Cup winner in brackets
Champions League and Conference League without influence
The other two competitions could also have influenced the allocation of places. In the meantime, however, there are no Bundesliga teams in either the Champions League or the Europa Conference League.
Cup final and fair play no longer have back doors
For many years, UEFA’s fair play rating was a way of earning a place in the first qualifying round of the Europa League. But UEFA abolished this rule a long time ago, and the fairest association has received prize money instead of a starting place since 2015.
In any case, the defeated finalist in the DFB Cup gets nothing, that has been the case since the beginning of the 2015/16 season – VfB Stuttgart made it into the Europa League in 2013 as the defeated cup finalist.