[Football] Europa League 2

[Official Old Man]

UEFA are going to start a third European club tournament that will add more clubs.
Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin said: "The new competition makes Uefa's club competitions more inclusive than ever before. There will be more matches for more clubs, with more associations represented in the group stages.
Including Thursday afternoon KO's. There's going to be big battles on the last day of the season to 1/ finish above the bottom three & 2/ finish below the Europa League qualifying (9th?).

 

[Wozza]

So loads more matches on Sundays. Booooo.

 

[Titanic]

More is not always better.

 

[Easy 10]

"More inclusive" = any old shite can qualify.

 

[beorhthelm]

does UEFA not stop to ask why their competitions *need* to be more inclusive. isnt the whole point of higher level competition to be exclusive?

and if serious about inclusive, why not follow the FA Cup example and have a european wide knock out cup? not piss about with noddy leagues.

 

[strings]

The Europa League had grown too big, and I can see why they needed to do this. However, I wonder whether reviving the Cup Winners' Cup may have been a better option.

 

[Djmiles]

I’m looking forward to a Thursday 5pm kick off against Lichensteins 3rd best team.

Let’s get excited people!

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Could be our chance to win something unless the UEFA League teams will drop down like the Champions League 3rd place ones do.

 

[Vicar!]

What about a Cup for the League winners alone, one for the cup winners, and one for everyone else.
Dunno why no one has thought of it.

 

[AmexRuislip]

We might even end up playing Mr Blooms B team from Belgium!

 

[BBassic]

The Europa League is already viewed as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy of European club football isn't it?

What sort of stature will this new one have?

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

The Europa League is already viewed as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy of European club football isn't it?

What sort of stature will this new one have?

It's when they start allowing the 'big clubs' to put their U23s in that we will know it is propose shit house

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

The Europa League is already viewed as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy of European club football isn't it?

What sort of stature will this new one have?

This could be a chance to make the EL better.

Get rid of the poorer teams and the months of qulification

I think the nations league has shown smaller teams will enjoy playing teams at a similar level and winning a few games

 

[Seasidesage]

How else will we ever get into Europe? Get it done!

 

[Stat Brother]

The Europa League is already viewed as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy of European club football isn't it?

What sort of stature will this new one have?

Just because it is in England doesn't make that true of the rest of Europe.

 

[BBassic]

Just because it is in England doesn't make that true of the rest of Europe.

Yeah well the rest of Europe can do one, can't they?

Rah rah rah Brexit rah rah rah British values rah rah rah

 

[Gary Leeds]

The Europa League is already viewed as the Johnstone's Paint Trophy of European club football isn't it?

What sort of stature will this new one have?

on par with the Scottish Premier League?

 

[AmexRuislip]

How else will we ever get into Europe? Get it done!

If one of the U23s decided to get married, their peers could organise a stag do in Dieppe

 

[Turkey]

I think a lot of people have read this wrong. There are no extra European places allocated, so it doesn't increase our chances of getting into Europe.

The Europa League will be halved in size from 64 to 32 teams.

So based on the coefficients at the end of last season the difference would be that (other than Champions getting through via failing in CL Qualifiers) the Europa League would only feature nations from Spain, England, Italy, Germany, France, Russia, Portugal, Ukraine, Belgium, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Netherlands and Greece.

So clubs from Croatia, Denmark, Israel, Cyprus, Romania, Poland etc would only be able to qualify for Europa League 2.

 

[Ernest]

They should bring back the Intertoto Cup next