ian1964 10,720 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 UEFA Europa Conference League: All you need to know The UEFA Europa Conference League will begin in the 2021-22 season. Find out all you need to know about the competition. What is the UEFA Europa Conference League? It is the new third-tier of European competition, below the Champions League and the Europa League. Why has UEFA Europa Conference League been created? Originally named "Europa League 2" as a working title, the competition was created to give teams from smaller nations, who would usually not make the group stage of European competition, a greater chance. It means at least 34 countries will be represented in the group stages of the UEFA club competitions (guaranteed number is 26 under the present format). UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said: "There will be more matches for more clubs, with more associations represented in the group stages. There was a widespread demand by all clubs to increase their chances of participating more regularly in European competition." Does this mean more teams will qualify for Europe? No, the access list has simply been adjusted so teams from the smaller nations now play in this competition, and fewer clubs will go through Europa League qualifying. How many teams will be in the UEFA Europa Conference League? There will be 32 teams in the group stage, and the new competition will feature 141 matches over 15 match weeks, exactly like the Europa League. In total, 176 teams will participate at some stage. Full article: https://www.espn.co.uk/football/blog-uefa/story/3951212/uefa-europa-conference-league-all-you-need-to-know 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 6,965 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 A Friday night league 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
917 191 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 If this was in place this season, Rangers would have no access to the Europa league group stages at all! Maybe this should be moved to the Rangers Chat section?? Good news is, thanks to us the Scottish co-efficient is going back up, so the SPFL runners up -should - still get a shot at qualifying for the Europa league. Anyway we will no doubt be champions by next season.. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
917 191 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 This is actually fkin criminal. As if it wasn’t hard enough to qualify through 4 knock out rounds for the Europa league, they are now basically taking 50% of the groups out & putting them in this Conference league. It will still almost be impossible for the likes of Hearts, Hibs & Aberdeen to get into this 3rd division. It would be hard enough for Rangers (though if we did qualify, we would have a realistic chance of winning the thing). Basically it is designed so celtic get into the Europa league, and Rangers can’t. Almost as if Peter Lawwell was involved in designing it.. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 837 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Nations cup for clubs. I'll just wait until it starts before anything else. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 4,265 Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 On 26/09/2019 at 22:21, 917 said: Anyway we will no doubt be champions by next season.. How many people post on the @917 account? Just after the Celtic game you were wetting your knickers about how are only chance for silverware was the two cups! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 6,965 Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 What about bringing back the cup winners cup with no seeding 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 837 Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 4 hours ago, compo said: What about bringing back the cup winners cup with no seeding Thats the answer. But having 4 clubs from the top leagues getting oozed up by the CL money has ruined it. UEFA may even want that but know if they do they top clubs will break away. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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