Servette Geneva could miss all European Cup competitions as a second in the table last season. The Young Boys from Bern were third – and have a place in the league.
Even when the championship in Switzerland was still running, the platform had “Football meets Data” Warned that it could be better with a view to a European competition to become third instead of second.
She discovered a trick in the UEFA system, which Partizan Belgrade had been fatal the previous season. Now it could hit Servette. The club from Geneva ended the season in Switzerland in second place.
BSC Young Boys safely in a league
They landed a place behind it Young Boys from Bern, who were therefore without a chance, for the Champions League To qualify 2025/26. But at least the third place in Switzerland brings participation in the Playoffs One, the last qualification round for the Europa League.
If YB failed in the playoffs, it would certainly be in the league Conference League And in the smallest of the three European competitions would have the guarantee to be allowed to play until winter.
Servette, on the other hand, could fail in all qualifications. This has already happened in the Champions League, because after a 1-0 first leg victory at Viktoria Pilsen, the Geneva lost 1: 3 in the second leg.
Possibly against Mainz 05
Servette slips into the third round of qualification for the Europa League. The Swiss meet FC Utrecht from the Netherlands. The risk of failing there is certainly.
Then the geners only had one chance to qualify for a league, namely in the playoffs of the Conference League. But even there Servette would be an unsetzent team due to the weak UEFA coefficient. So there could also be a duel with the 1. FSV Mainz 05, which as a German Bundesliga club has to start in the playoffs.
Servette could become the second victim in the complicated world of coefficients, seedlists and qualification channels.
Partizan as the first victim
Partizan from Belgrade hit it last season. The Serbs failed as a league in the qualification for the Champions League to Dynamo Kiev, in qualifying for the Europa League at FC Lugano from Switzerland, and in the last chance in qualifying for Conference League at Belgian representative Kaa Gent.
The FK TSC from the city of Bačka Topola, on the other hand, took part in the Conference League as previously the third in the table of the Serbian league, after having previously failed in qualification for the Europa League on Makkabi Tel Aviv. As 24th the league, TSC even made it into the playoffs for the round of 16, but then failed at the Polish club Jagiellonia Białystok.