What Liverpool and Chelsea’s European results mean for West Ham’s Champions League challenge

West Ham are in pole place for a top-four end with simply seven league video games remaining, nevertheless, fourth place within the Premier League may not be sufficient for Champions League qualification subsequent season.

Since 2002, the Premier League have had 4 Champions League qualification spots and on all bar one event, all 4 sides have entered on the minimal of the Champions League qualification rounds.

Tottenham have been the one staff to overlook out in 2012 when Chelsea completed sixth within the Premier League however as Champions League winners routinely certified for the following season’s competitors.

On that event, Spurs dropped to the Europa League, however after an alteration to the principles that might not occur.

The fourth-placed facet and the Champions League winners would each qualify for Europe’s elite competitors with 5 English groups competing within the following season’s event.

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However, 5 is the utmost allowed from anybody nation and there’s a state of affairs the place the fourth-placed staff within the Premier League misses out and drops into the Europa League.

Nightmare state of affairs

If Arsenal win the Europa League they are going to achieve entry into the Champions League as a reward for this triumph and if Chelsea win their second European Cup they will even routinely be within the competitors to defend it subsequent season.

Were that state of affairs to play out and the league standings to stay as they’re with neither facet within the prime 4 then each can be admitted to the Champions League subsequent season on the expense of the fourth-placed facet who would enter the Europa League.

One crumb of consolation for West Ham followers was the elimination of Liverpool on the quarter-final stage by the hands of Real Madrid. Were Liverpool nonetheless within the competitors then one other staff may doubtlessly have ousted fourth place from the Champions League subsequent season.

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Champions League dream could possibly be saved by English failure in Europe

If certainly one of both Arsenal or Chelsea are defeated in Europe then ending fourth within the Premier League will probably be sufficient to qualify for Europe’s elite competitors subsequent season.

Finish fifth, sixth or seventh and which European competitors West Ham discover themselves in would rely on the end result of each home cup competitions.

As the league desk stands a Spurs overcome Manchester City would see Jose Mourinho’s staff enter the Europa Conference League.

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If Tottenham can transfer up the desk and qualify for both the Champions League or Europa League by advantage of their league inserting then the Europa Conference League spot can be awarded to both fifth, sixth or seventh relying on the end result of Arsenal and Chelsea of their respective European tournaments.

Things get additional sophisticated by the chance that Leicester or Southampton win the FA Cup and don’t end within the European spots within the league desk.

If, for instance, Southampton win the FA Cup and end within the backside half of the desk they’d qualify for the Europa League which means solely 5 European spots are allotted to league placings, six if Manchester City win the League Cup.

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Dream state of affairs

One technique to keep away from all confusion and nail-biting is for West Ham to complete third and then they’ll fortunately ignore all different home and European competitions protected within the data they’ve secured Champions League soccer for the primary time of their historical past.

Finish fourth then the Hammers’ dream state of affairs can be for Manchester City to win the quadruple. This would see the highest 4 qualify for the Champions League, fifth and sixth for the Europa League, and seventh for the Europa Conference League.

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