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The elimination of Basel from the Europa League on Tuesday night showed that Scotland will have European options to win this season, before the 2021/22 European campaign.
Shakhtar Donetsk’s 4-1 win over the Swiss aspect ensures scotland finishes in the 15th most sensible in the UEFA coefficient table, giving it an additional position in the Champions League.
Next season you will see the arrival of a third European competition, the Europa Conference League.
This gives Hibs a better chance of qualifying for the European festival next season, especially after the smart ones started the season for Jack Ross’ men with three 3 wins after Tuesday’s 1-0 win over Dundee United to leave the club sitting in the most sensible table in the Scottish Premiership.
What does that mean?
The champions and finalists of the Scottish Premiership will compete in the Champions League qualifiers. The winners will enter the third circular and have to move on to a draw for only two matches of two to four, as Celtic has had to go through recently. circular moment.
Next season, it will be seven years since Scotland had two representatives, Celtic and Motherwell, in the Champions League.
The winners of the 2021 Scottish Cup will enter the 3rd circular qualifier for the made over Europa League and will want two matches tied to succeed in the organizational stage, however, with the new simplified nature of the tournament, it will be very competitive. with strong opposition.
But this presents a much greater opportunity with Motherwell and Aberdeen in the first qualifying round of this season, with Rangers in the second.
Teams that complete third and fourth place will enter the Europa Conference League in the qualifying round of the moment.
The level of organization of 32 teams will consist of the 10 wastes in the Europa League play-offs, plus 22 of the Conference League playoffs.
Teams to intensify
Rangers’ good fortunes in reaching the europa League organizational level for two consecutive seasons despite the start of the first qualifying circular at any of the events, encouraged and relieved Celtic without any other teams deeply concerned at the European festival in recent years.
Dale Johnson, editor-in-chief of ESPN FC and coefficient expert, revealed that the club’s run to the eighth round of the Europa League, where they were defeated through Bayer Leverkusen, saw Steven Gerrard’s men accumulate as many UEFA coefficient problems in this crusade as Liverpool and Borussia. Dortmund, and more than Real Madrid , with Celtic right behind.
Johnson also noted that Scottish groups will want to be consistent in their European good luck with their position on the coefficient table, or even advance to the most sensible 10 by taking an automatic position to the Champions League.
It will take a team other than Celtic or Rangers to have a good run in Europe, especially from 2021/22. Currently, with 4 groups represented, the victory will have a value of 0. 50 coefficient points. With the addition of a fifth, it is reduced to 0. 40.
Last
Hibs’ last European arrived here in 2018 when the team reached the third qualifying circular where he was eliminated through Norwegian club Molde after beating Runavak of the Faroe Islands and Asteras Tripolis of Greece.