I've been saying this should be the case for years now. It's pretty damn stupid that they split it down to 3 teams after the 3rd league.
The massive drop-off in UEFA coefficients has almost always begun below the 4th league. Over 5 seasons, the UEFA coefficients for Spain-Italy-England-Germany are almost always in that 75-85 point range (Spain being crazy high of late, usually around 90-100 points)...
Whereas after these 4 leagues the drop off to France, Russia, Portugal is massive, as these leagues rarely go over about 55 points for 5 seasons.
It really never made sense to exclude one of the top 4 leagues from having 4 teams. It was pretty much ridiculous.
SO forza #teamcoefficient
4 teams 2018!