Manchester United and Newcastle United’s excellent midweek Brexit impressions are bad news for the Premier League’s hopes of securing an extra Champions League place for the next season.
Had they dropped into the Europa League, it would not be so bleak but completely eliminated leaves the remaining English clubs facing an uphill battle.
Arsenal and Manchester City will fly the Premier League flag in the Champions League knockouts while Brighton, Liverpool and West Ham are the trio of English clubs in the Europa League last 16.
Aston Villa are straight through to the same round of the Europa Conference League.
But where are the extra Champions League places heading based on the group-stage evidence?
The Champions League is expanding from 32 teams to 36 next season, which means the format of the tournament itself will also change. We have explained in great detail all of those changes, which you can find below.
Very well in recent years.
In each of the past three seasons, England has been top of UEFA’s coefficient table; missing out on the top two in just one of the last seven campaigns.
The coefficient is worked out as an average rather than a total, cancelling out the advantage that would be gained by leagues with more European representatives. The equation for each league is: number of points accumulated divided by number of competing teams.