Polish clubs collected the most points in the coefficient during the autumn part, namely 13.625, which is more than one-tenth of a point higher than England’s, and almost two and a half points above the Spanish. The victory of Lech Poznaň on the pitch of Sigma Olomouc also contributed to the Polish euphoria, they are collecting bonuses for their placement with their neighbors and the local journalists calculated that they should not end up in worse than twelfth place after the season.
Interesting? For many years, Poland has been an outlier in terms of coefficient and clubs in Europe. More recently, in 2021, the country was ranked 30th in the UEFA rankings, behind Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.
First of all, the Czech Republic is in tenth place. And you ask why it is so important to keep it? Remember for yourself how happy Slavia was last year for the title (and how they chased after it). Thanks to previous rich seasons, the domestic champion has a certain direct promotion to the Champions League. Hundreds of millions of crowns in your pocket. It also applies to next year. Now it’s about deployment for the 2027/2028 season.
But the results so far suggest that it would Sparta and co. they didn’t have to lose hope even for the ninth place, which would be important especially for the Czech vice-champion, who would only start the 2027/28 season in the 3rd preliminary round of the Champions League, and thus would have the certainty of participating at least in the league phase of the Europa League.
Ninth place is currently occupied by the Turks, who have a lead of 2.05 points over the Czech Republic. Samsunspor advanced from the Conference League, Galatasaray Istanbul and its city rival Fenerbahce are successfully competing in the Champions League and Europa League.
Czech clubs also collect bonuses for placement, Sparta has the most, which finished in 4th place in the Conference League, for which it scored 0.650 points and another tenth for advancing to the round of 16. Sigma Olomouc, which he moved to the next phase Athenian miracle from the fifteenth minute of the setupimproved the coefficient by 0.025.
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However, they still have to look behind themselves carefully, because there are more candidates for the tenth place. Above all, the aforementioned Poles, against whom Sparta et al. they have one more not insignificant trump in their hands, and that is the January program in European cups.
While the Poles are not represented in the Champions League and the Europa League, the Czech teams still have four matches in January in which they can collect points. Slavia will welcome Barcelona in the Champions League and will end their pilgrimage with a millionaire competition on the field of Paphos in Cyprus, Viktoria Plzeň will host FC Porto and will conclude the league stage, from which they would like to advance, in Basel, Switzerland. However, even the Poles are not without an advantage, because their points are not divided by five, like their competitors, but by four, according to the number of representatives in this season of the European Cups.
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Less than a point behind the Poles are the Greeks, who have high hopes for spring European battles thanks to Thessaloniki and Panathinaikos in the Europa League.
However, the hope of another point increase for the Czech Republic is not insignificant. In addition to the mentioned matches, which are still waiting for Slavia and Pilsen, Sigma Olomouc and Sparta are looking forward to their opponents. While at Hané they will face one of the pair of Laussane and Crystal Palace (and the rematch will be played away), the Spartans are looking for someone from the quartet of Celje, Alkmaar, Noah and Drita, in addition to the advantage of rematch against Letné, which would also be available to them in the possible quarter-finals, where, according to the account on the X FC Koeficient network, they could face Vallecano or Shakhtar Donetsk if successful.
And from that, some more points could drip into the coefficient…
