Champion's League - again!

[Tellmee]

Sorry about that. I put the my last question wrongly. What I meant was - if Chelsea win the champion's League and become England's fourth team in the competition next season, do they have to pre-quailify or do that cause the third team - Arsenal - to drop into the pre-qualifying position?

[MarkRae]

Let's start again. Man City, Man Utd and Arsenal are in the Champions League no matter what. OK?

CURRENTLY, Spurs have to qualify for the fourth spot from the English Premiership.

If Chelsea win this year's final, they automatically take the fourth spot and Spurs miss out. That means that if Chelsea win this year's final, they don't have to qualify for next year's Champions' League.

However, if they lose, they miss out of the Champions League completely, but Spurs will still have to qualify.

OK?

[TheNovice]

as answered previously - the only team that will have to pre-qualify is Spurs if Chelsea fail to win Champions League final. The top three plus Chelsea, should they win on Saturday, go directly into the group stages of next seasons competition whereby Spurs drop into the Europa League....which will entail them starting their season about 2 weeks after the end of Euro 2012!!!!!

[VHG]

>>>Spurs have to qualify for the fourth spot

Assuming Chelsea lose Champions League final then Spurs are in Champions League.

So what do you mean by "qualify", do you mean they have to "fight it out" in the early rounds of the Champions League till they get to the "league" phase.

If so then as far as I am concerned, even being in the early knock out phase still means they are in the Champions league.

I think you are confusing people with the word "qualify".

[Tellmee]

Thanks again. Sorry to be thick. I had been misinformed.

[redman41]

The fourth-placed team enters the Champions League at the play-off round for non-champions and must win a two-legged knockout tie in order to enter the group stage.
Tottenham's fate lies in the hands of Chelsea, because if Chelsea beat Bayern then Tottenham will end up in the Europa League. !!!

[Arksided]

No need to apologize Tellmee, that's what the site if for, at least the Champions league format is straight forward however the Europa Cup still baffles me ;-)