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Surely that refers to next season's Europa League competition. This season's Cup runners-up don't qualify.

Pretty sure that is the case - the format changes to the EL take place next season but apply to the FA cup runners up this season who won't qualify.

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Pretty sure that is the case - the format changes to the EL take place next season but apply to the FA cup runners up this season who won't qualify.

 

To clarify, is it irrelevant whether the FA cup winners finish in a CL place or a Europa League place - another league spot will be freed up? (my understanding is that last season, Arsenal, having won the FA cup cup, had to finish outside the top 4 for the 7th place team to get the Europa spot at the expense of Hull).

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To clarify, is it irrelevant whether the FA cup winners finish in a CL place or a Europa League place - another league spot will be freed up? (my understanding is that last season, Arsenal, having won the FA cup cup, had to finish outside the top 4 for the 7th place team to get the Europa spot at the expense of Hull).

 

I'm out of my depth here.

 

I'm going on a) stuff people on here said a couple of weeks ago. b) Cursory look on Wikipedia.

 

I wouldn't say it is an extra league spot because there is still one place allocated to the FA Cup, but you've got to win it to get it. In practice does mean fewer Hulls and Millwalls and more 6th/7th placed teams.

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[h=3]European qualification[edit][/h]The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners' Cup instead). This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight. However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead. FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the Group Stage. Losing finalists, if they enter the Europa League, must begin earlier, at the play-off or Q3 stage.[11] From the 2015/16 season, UEFA will not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.[12]

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:lol:

 

This year the runner up gets into Europe ONLY if the winner has qualified for the Champions League (not Europa).

Next year, the runner up can't qualify for Europe.

 

The first bit has always been the case - the FA Cup provides one Europa League spot, not two, so if a 5th/6th place team win the FA Cup, their EL place actually comes from their cup win not their league place. The runner up gets it only if the FA Cup winner qualifies for the higher competition.

 

And pretty sure you're still confused about this year/next year. The new rules apply to next season's European competitions, which impact the winners/runners up of this season's domestic cups.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7OKcGyJbSE

 

I think Gaston would be pretty happy to get credited with the assist for that one! It lightly brushes his shin on its way through to Punch.

 

It's still Gaston's assist, he was last to touch the ball and he did change the flight of the ball, not much, but he did. Shaw "assisted the assister", to use some fantasy football speak.

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The first bit has always been the case - the FA Cup provides one Europa League spot, not two, so if a 5th/6th place team win the FA Cup, their EL place actually comes from their cup win not their league place. The runner up gets it only if the FA Cup winner qualifies for the higher competition.

 

And pretty sure you're still confused about this year/next year. The new rules apply to next season's European competitions, which impact the winners/runners up of this season's domestic cups.

 

That was my understanding as well.

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Can you provide a link for this information?

 

This could be wrong (they claim the change is next season). If so, who will volunteer to correct it?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup

 

European qualification[edit]

 

The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners' Cup instead). This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight. However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead. FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the Group Stage. Losing finalists, if they enter the Europa League, must begin earlier, at the play-off or Q3 stage.[11] From the 2015/16 season, UEFA will not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.[12]

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This could be wrong (they claim the change is next season). If so, who will volunteer to correct it?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup

 

European qualification[edit]

 

The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners' Cup instead). This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight. However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead. FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the Group Stage. Losing finalists, if they enter the Europa League, must begin earlier, at the play-off or Q3 stage.[11] From the 2015/16 season, UEFA will not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.[12]

 

It is a question of interpretation. I read what you quoted to say that runners up will not qualify to play in the 2015-2016 Europa League. You read it to say that runners up in the 2015-2016 season will not qualify for the Europa League. Even though it was not my initial interpretation I agree that your interpretation is possible. Parsing Wikipedia will provide no answers. I have tried to find it on the UEFA web site and I cannot. Generalized googling only brings up equally unclear information.

 

Edit: Issue resolved. See below.

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This could be wrong (they claim the change is next season). If so, who will volunteer to correct it?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FA_Cup

 

European qualification[edit]

 

The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's UEFA Europa League (formerly named the UEFA Cup; until 1998 they entered the Cup Winners' Cup instead). This European place applies even if the team is relegated or is not in the English top flight. However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead. FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the Group Stage. Losing finalists, if they enter the Europa League, must begin earlier, at the play-off or Q3 stage.[11] From the 2015/16 season, UEFA will not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.[12]

It's just you not understanding it, put in as many underlines as you like.

 

The format changes start from next season.

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That settles it. It means my reading comprehension is still satisfactory. Here is the direct link to the UEFA website with the information. However, it would be nice if they published it in the form of a rule.

 

http://www.uefa.org/about-uefa/executive-committee/news/newsid=1999120.html

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A piece in the Liverpool Echo concerning the three buys from Southampton.

 

Hit, miss or maybe?

 

Can you guess who got what?

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/hit-miss-maybe-how-liverpool-8686960#rlabs=1

 

More like maybe (Barmby not Barnes), miss, and meltdown! Positive spin from the Self-Pity City Echo, whatever next?! Hopefully we can stuff them tomorrow so they can get back to the endemic wrist slashing...

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More like maybe (Barmby not Barnes), miss, and meltdown! Positive spin from the Self-Pity City Echo, whatever next?! Hopefully we can stuff them tomorrow so they can get back to the endemic wrist slashing...

 

If you're talking about people topping themselves in the North West, Manchester is the place.

 

Liverpool is unremarkable on the suicide front - at national average, the surrounding areas are up to 25% lower than the national average.

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If you're talking about people topping themselves in the North West, Manchester is the place.

 

Liverpool is unremarkable on the suicide front - at national average, the surrounding areas are up to 25% lower than the national average.

 

Statistics aren't everything. I bet historically Liverpool has had the highest suicide rate, in Europe, if not the world!...

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Based on what, exactly?

 

Based on the mawkish obsession with tragedy and the historical obsession of footballing supremacy! Turkish kindly pointed out the Liverpool Echo's recent claim on the Titanic disaster the other day - a new one on me, but certainly a case to add to the pantheon of pity. It wouldn't surprise me if the bubonic plague, Spanish Flu, and the Holocaust all had their roots in Merseyside! Hang on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066155/Hitler-spent-months-living-Liverpool-flat-later-destroyed-Luftwaffe.html

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Based on the mawkish obsession with tragedy and the historical obsession of footballing supremacy! Turkish kindly pointed out the Liverpool Echo's recent claim on the Titanic disaster the other day - a new one on me, but certainly a case to add to the pantheon of pity. It wouldn't surprise me if the bubonic plague, Spanish Flu, and the Holocaust all had their roots in Merseyside! Hang on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2066155/Hitler-spent-months-living-Liverpool-flat-later-destroyed-Luftwaffe.html

I agree with you on the Titanic, but that's surely tasteless commercial opportunism rather than an example of scousers crying their eyes out.

 

I don't share your view that scousers are self-pitying. You're mistaking solidarity and shared concern, I reckon. When the Grand National got called off, I seem to remember scousers taking stranded strangers in, not p!ssing tears because a huge burden had been placed upon 'em. The tenacity on Hillsborough was both admirable and justified.

 

What else would you put in the pantheon of pity?

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However, if the FA Cup winning team has also qualified for the following season's Champions League, then the losing FA Cup finalist is given the Europa League place instead.

 

From the 2015/16 season, UEFA will not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.

 

:toppa:

 

The small print is what matters here. Starting in the 2015-2016 season runners up do not get into Europe. See here:

 

http://www.uefa.org/about-uefa/executive-committee/news/newsid=1999120.html

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Interesting that we want more league places to get CL. Alternatively could hope for small club to win FA Cuo so Spurs coming 7th get f all.

 

Would, be handy if some paper could task an intern with coming up with every relevant permutation on who wins FA Cup, CL, EL. so we could all be clear. I need to know if I want an English team to win EL or not - better not be Bloody Everton

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