Champions League qualification: how Premier League Race stands and why England could get five places

The competition of each country deserves a coefficiity list based on how their teams perform in the three men’s club competitions of UEFA: the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Coefficient points are earned through competition results – two for a victory and one by a draw.

The points earned by clubs from the same domestic competition are added and shared by the number of clubs that the competition has in Europe.

For example, if the Premier League had 100 points, it would be distributed by the number of teams playing in Europe (seven), giving England a coefficient of 14.28.

This season, bonus points are available for clubs that play in the Champions League, which is beneficial for competitions with more clubs that compete in it, such as Germany and Italy.

Countries that end in the top two of the coefficient table earn an extra Champions League spot for the following season.

Those places are awarded to the teams that end in the first position under the standard Champions League allocation in those competitions.

In the Premier League, the top four clubs automatically qualify for the Champions League via competition position, so each extra place would go to the team in the fifth.

Extra places for the Champions League 2024-25 were given to Bologna and Borussia Dortmund, who finished fifth in the Serie A and the Bundesliga respectively.