Those of ‘Mendi’ occupy the eleventh place in LaLiga Santander and are in the ‘semis’ of the Europa League
The last precedent was Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga, which won the Europa League in 2021/22 and finished the national championship in eleventh position.
He Seville is out of danger. After a bad first leg of the season, those from Nervión have already left the compromised zone of the classification and have settled in the middle table. Currently in the eleventh positionthe picture of mendilibar addition 44 points in 33 duels disputed but are considerably far from the positions that give access to European competitions.
the great month of April that they have completed, achieving 13 points out of 15 possible, allows them to reach the last days fully in the fight for seventh place. However, most likely they will not manage to enter the ‘Europe Zone’.
What keeps the hope of playing in Europe next year is the europa league, a competition in which the people of Seville are still fully alive. After eliminating the powerful Manchester Utd in the quarterfinals, they are one step away from the final. First, they must overcome the Juventus in the semifinals, a double match.
If they eliminate the Italians, with whom they will play the first leg of the ‘semis’ this Thursday, May 11 in Turin -the return will be on Thursday, May 18 in Seville-, they would play the ticket for the Champions League 2023/24 in the final in Budapest on May 31, against the Rome of Mourinho or the Bayer Leverkusen of Xabi Alonso.
In that possible scenario, in which the Seville manage to sneak into the next edition of the Champions League as champion of the europa league but it is below the seventh position, many doubt about what will happen to the places of the Spanish teams in Europe. Can they win a ticket or, on the contrary, lose it?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BUNDESLIGA
The German team finished the Bundesliga in eleventh position but participated in this edition of the Champions League. In fact, they reached the round of 16, where they lost to Napoli.
The ticket for the biggest European club competition was obtained after winning the Glasgow Rangers in the final of the last edition of the Europe League. Curiously, disputed in the Ramon Sanchez–pizjuan. Their classification did not affect the rest of the teams classified in the German domestic tournament.
Eintracht Frankfurt won the last edition of the Europa League against Glasgow Rangers
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Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen and RB Leipzig also participated in Champions League (The maximum number of participants that UEFA allows per country is five). union berlin and Freiburg they played europa league and the Colognewho finished seventh, the Conference League.
THIS IS WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN LALIGA
In Spain the exact same thing would happen. If he Seville fails to get into the top seven and manages to qualify for the Champions League, those above would not be affected in any way. The first four of LaLiga would also be in the next edition of the biggest European club competition. It would not change the reality of the eighth place either, although Mendilibar’s team is ahead in the table. They would not play European competition.