Editing Premier League (section)

====Qualification criteria for 2025–26====
{{see also|2025–26 UEFA Champions League#Association team allocation}}

The top four teams in the Premier League qualify automatically for the subsequent season's [[UEFA Champions League]] league phase. The champions of the Champions League and [[UEFA Europa League]] may earn an additional qualification for the subsequent season's Champions League league phase if did not finish in the top four. There are additional berths for the two best associations in the previous season's rankings, which may result in a maximum of seven teams from one association in the Champions League.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/4266734|title=Race for Europe: How many clubs could qualify?|last=Hancock|first=Tom|date=25 March 2025|website=Premier League}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/44372662/how-premier-league-teams-qualify-champions-league-europe|title=How Premier League teams can reach Champions League, Europe|last=Johnson|first=Dale|date=17 April 2025|work=ESPN}}</ref>

The fifth-placed team in the Premier League, as well as the winners of the [[FA Cup]], qualify for the subsequent season's Europa League league phase, but if the winner of the FA Cup also finishes in the top five places in the Premier League or has won one of UEFA's major tournaments, then this place reverts to the team that finished sixth. The winner of the [[EFL Cup]] qualifies for the subsequent season's [[UEFA Conference League]], but if the winner had already qualified for a UEFA competition via their performance in another competition, then this place reverts to the team that finished sixth in the Premier League, or seventh if the FA Cup result had already caused the sixth-placed team to qualify.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.premierleague.com/european-qualification-explained|title=European qualification for UEFA competitions explained|publisher=Premier League|access-date=12 February 2021|archive-date=25 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525124517/https://www.premierleague.com/european-qualification-explained|url-status=live}}</ref>

The number of places allocated to English clubs in UEFA competitions is dependent upon the position the country holds in the UEFA coefficient rankings, which are calculated based on the performance of teams in UEFA competitions over the previous five years. Currently, England is ranked first, ahead of Spain.

As of 8 May 2025, the coefficients for are as follows (only [[Big Five (association football)|top five European leagues]] are shown):<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/nationalassociations/uefarankings/country/?year=2025|title=Member associations - UEFA rankings - Country coefficients – UEFA|date=8 May 2025|publisher=UEFA|access-date=2 January 2023|archive-date=4 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204125228/https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2023|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=UEFA Country Ranking 2023|url=https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method5/crank2024.html|publisher=kassiesa.net|accessdate=2 January 2023|archive-date=14 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214075832/https://kassiesa.net/uefa/data/method5/crank2024.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 97%"
|-
!colspan="3"|Ranking
!rowspan="2"|Member association<br />{{small|(L: League, C: Cup, LC: League Cup)}}
!colspan="6"|Coefficient
!rowspan="2"|Teams{{refn|group=x|Number of teams still active from association in [[2024–25 UEFA Champions League|UEFA Champions League]], [[2024–25 UEFA Europa League|UEFA Europa League]] or [[2024–25 UEFA Conference League|UEFA Conference League]].}}
!colspan="4"|Regular places in 2026–27 season{{refn|group=x|European Performance Spots: The two associations with the highest one-year coefficient in the most recent season are awarded an additional berth in the Champions League league phase.}}
|- style="font-size:88%"
!2025
!2024
!data-sort-type="number"| {{abbr|Mvmt|Movement}}
!2020–21
!2021–22
!2022–23
!2023–24
!2024–25
!Total
![[2026–27 UEFA Champions League|CL]]
![[2026–27 UEFA Europa League|EL]]
![[2026–27 UEFA Conference League|ECL]]
!Total
|- 
|1||1
|{{same position|c|0}} –
|{{flagicon|ENG}} [[The Football Association|England]] {{small|(L, [[FA Cup|C]], [[EFL Cup|LC]]{{refn|group=x|name=lc|The champion of the [[EFL Cup|league cup of England]] is given a place in the [[UEFA Conference League]] by special permission from UEFA (replacing the lowest-ranked league team which would have qualified).}})}}
|'''24.357'''
|'''21.000'''
|'''23.000'''
|17.375
|'''28.892'''
|'''114.624'''<!--Update the entire table and accessdate of the template above this table to show the latest update ranking, thank you.-->
|align="center"|3/7
|rowspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"|4
|rowspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"|2
|rowspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"|1
|rowspan="5" align="center" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"|7
|- 
|2||2
|{{same position|c|0}} –
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Italian Football Federation|Italy]] {{small|([[Serie A|L]], [[Coppa Italia|C]])}}
|16.285
|15.714
|22.357
|'''21.000'''
|21.875
|97.231<!--Update the entire table and accessdate of the template above this table to show the latest update ranking, thank you.-->
|align="center"|1/8
|- 
|3||3
|{{same position|c|0}} –
|{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Royal Spanish Football Federation|Spain]] {{small|([[La Liga|L]], [[Copa del Rey|C]])}}
|19.500
|18.428
|16.571
|16.062
|'''23.892'''
|94.453<!--Update the entire table and accessdate of the template above this table to show the latest update ranking, thank you.-->
|align="center"|1/7
|- 
|4||4
|{{same position|c|0}} –
|{{flagicon|GER}} [[German Football Association|Germany]] {{small|([[Bundesliga|L]], [[DFB-Pokal|C]])}}
|15.214
|16.214
|17.125
|'''19.357'''
|18.421
|86.331<!--Update the entire table and accessdate of the template above this table to show the latest update ranking, thank you.-->
|align="center"|0/8
|- 
|5||5
|{{same position|c|0}} –
|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[French Football Federation|France]] {{small|([[Ligue 1|L]], [[Coupe de France|C]])}}
|7.916
|18.416
|12.583
|16.250
|17.642
|72.807<!--Update the entire table and accessdate of the template above this table to show the latest update ranking, thank you.-->
|align="center"|1/7
|}
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