Follow me carefully on this....
22 teams go directly in CL:
- 3 from Spain
- 3 from England
- 3 from Italy
- 2 from France
- 2 from Germany
- 2 from Russia
- 1 from Romania, Portugal, Turkey, Belgium, Ukraine, Scotland and Holland
-------------------------------
10 teams qualify from the so called "Best-placed path". This is how:
in round 1 there will be 10 teams
- 3rd placed team from Russia and the 2nd placed team from ROM, POR, HOL, SCO, TUR, UKR, BEL, GRE, CZE
From these 10 teams 5 pairs will be made and the winners of these 5 pairs will play in the 2nd round against these 5 teams:
- 4th placed from England
- 4th placed from Spain
- 4th placed from Italy
- 3rd placed from France
- 3rd placed from Germany
The 5 winners of these 5 pairs go in CL groups
----------------------------------
Now we're left with 5 more teams to complete the CL and we'll get them from the so called Champions Path.
1st round
We make 3 pairs from the champions of Faroer Islands, Luxemburg, Malta, Andorra, Montenegro and San Marino . The 3 winners go in round 2
2nd round
the three winners from round 1 and the 31 champions of the countries ranked from 17-47 (countries like Croatia, Serbia, Austria, Sweden, Macedonia etc) make 17 pairs and the winners of these 17 pairs go to round 3 where three more teams are expecting them
3rd round
The three teams waiting here (the champions of countries ranked 14,15,16 in UEFA) and the 17 winners of round2 make 10 pairs. The winners of these 10 pairs go to round 4
4th round
The ten winners from round3 make 5 pairs and the winners of these pairs go to CL groups
---------------------------
Got it?
