How Many Teams In The Champions League? It Depends On Atalanta: The Calendars For The Race For Europe Compared

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All together passionately. Four teams have already signed up for the next edition of the Champions League, the first with 36 teams and with the single ranking format. At least one remains, but there could also be two.

Complicated intersections. In fact, Serie A has an additional – reward – slot thanks to the seasonal ranking. Whether there will be five or six Italians in the running depends entirely onAtalanta: by winning the Europa League and finishing the championship in fifth place, the Orobic team would in fact “unlock” the sixth-placed team’s access to the Champions League. Which would not happen, it is worth specifying, in the event of Gasperini’s victory in Dublin and the simultaneous placing in fourth (or third) place in the standings: in that case the Italians in the Champions League would in fact remain five.

Since sixth place has to be considered, at least potentially, as useful for qualifying for the Champions League, this also remains in the running Florentinewho must hope for a series of results (win the three remaining matches with Roma and Lazio without going beyond 62), but is arithmetically still in the running for all three UEFA competitions.

Almost out of the picture Naples And Turin, which despite the delay should still be considered still in the running but with eighth place, currently occupied by the Viola and leading to the Conference League, as the maximum objective. The ninth placehowever, will not under any circumstances give access to European competitions: if Fiorentina were to win the Conference by finishing eighth in the championship, they would gain participation in the Europa League, but at that point Italy would not have any team competing in the third cup, in pursuant to UEFA regulations.

Below, the calendars compared to the teams still competing for Europe.

Atalanta – 63 points – 35 games played

37th day: LECCE
38th day: Turin
To recover: Fiorentina

Roma – 60 points – 36 games played

37th day: Genoa
38th day: EMPOLI

Lazio – 59 points – 36 games played

37th matchday: INTER
38th matchday: Sassuolo

Fiorentina – 53 points – 35 games played

37th day: Naples
38th day: CAGLIARI
To recover: ATALANTA

Napoli – 51 points – 36 games played*

37th matchday: FIORENTINA
38th day: Lecce

Turin – 50 points – 36 games played*