READ MORE: Villa opponents cast ticket doubts ahead of Europa Conference League clashĪfter four Premier League games so far this season, Unai Emery’s Villa team are 10th in the early table after two wins and two defeats. READ MORE: Fabrizio Romano makes fresh Youri Tielemans claim after Villa comments Villa take part in the group stages of the Europa Conference League in the next few weeks after a seventh-place Premier League finish last term and having overcome Scottish side Hibernian in a two-legged qualification play-off.īut Villa fans looking for a repeat - or even better - will be disappointed, according to the experts at oddschecker.Īnd they are also reckon Wolves, who swapped managers on the eve of the new season and flogged some of their top talent under FFP pressures in the summer, will struggle this term. This is because the third and fourth nations already have their top four going into the group stage so UEFA want the top two nations having five clubs, and the other three having four clubs.Aston Villa will be aiming to make European football a regular feature at Villa Park in the coming seasons, but bookmakers have predicted they may have to wait a bit longer to make that dream a reality. One of the other slots will go to the club that finishes 3rd in the league of the fifth-placed nation in the UEFA national rankings. In fact, in four of the past five campaigns, a team in the Premier League would have received one of the additional slots meaning the club that finished fifth in the table would qualify for the Champions League. If those rules were in place last season, England and the Netherlands would be awarded an extra slot. Points are earned with each win, draw and loss as well as reaching certain stages of the competition. Effectively, the nation's clubs who performed best in the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League based on coefficient points earned. Two of the four slots will go to clubs who 'achieved the best collective performance' in Europe in the previous season. Where will be extra four clubs come from? Once the draw for the last-16 has been made, the entire path to the final will be clear. In theory, it should keep the best sides apart until the latter rounds of the competition. The team that finishes top will be placed on one side of the draw, the team that finish second will be placed on the other side of the draw and so on. The way the last-16 is drawn will also differ with it being fully seeded based on the finishing position in the group table. While they will avoid each other in the group stage, they can now meet in the playoff round as well as the last-16. In the current format, clubs from the same confederation can't meet until the quarter finals. "The eight clubs who prevail in the play-offs will then progress to the round of 16 where they will each face one of the top-eight finishers." Teams who finish 25th or lower will be eliminated, with no access to the UEFA Europa League. Those who finished between ninth and 16th will be seeded in the play-off draw, meaning they will face a team placed 17th to 24th – with home advantage in the second-leg match. "While the top eight teams will advance automatically to the round of 16, those sides placed between ninth and 24th will enter a play-off round.
UEFA say: "The results of each match will decide the overall ranking in the new league, with three points for a win and one for a draw still applying.
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