Editing FA Cup (section)

===European football===
The FA Cup winners qualify for the following season's [[UEFA Europa League]] (formerly named the UEFA Cup); they previously entered the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup]] from its launch in [[1960–61 European Cup Winners' Cup|1960]] until its final edition in [[1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup|1998]]. This European place applies even if the team is [[promotion and relegation|relegated]] or is not in the English top flight. In the past, if the FA Cup winning team also qualified for the following season's [[UEFA Champions League|Champions League]] or Europa League through their league or European performance, then the losing FA Cup finalists were given the European berth of the League Cup winners and the League Cup winners would be given the league berth instead. FA Cup winners enter the Europa League at the group stage but losing finalists, if they had not qualified for Europe via the league, began earlier, at the play-off or third qualifying round stage.<ref name="BBCUP">{{cite web |url=http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/who-qualifies-to-play-in-europe/ |title=Who qualifies to play in Europe? |access-date=24 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120907140644/http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/fans/faqs/who-qualifies-to-play-in-europe/ |archive-date=7 September 2012  }} Premier League, 3 May 2012</ref> During the Cup Winners' Cup era, if a team had already qualified for the UEFA Cup, they were be promoted to the Cup Winners' Cup and their initial UEFA Cup berth would be transferred to the next league team. From the [[2015–16 UEFA Europa League]] season, however, [[UEFA]] does not allow the runners-up to qualify for the Europa League through the competition.<ref>{{cite web |title=UEFA Direct |url=http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/Download/EuroExperience/uefaorg/Publications/02/01/17/30/2011730_DOWNLOAD.pdf |work=UEFA Magazine |access-date=27 October 2013 |date=October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193557/http://www.uefa.org/MultimediaFiles/Download/EuroExperience/uefaorg/Publications/02/01/17/30/2011730_DOWNLOAD.pdf |archive-date=29 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> If the winner of the FA Cup has already qualified for a European Competition through their Premier League position, the Europa League berth is then given to the highest placed team in the Premier League who has not yet qualified for a European Competition.