Tottenham handed boost in hopes for UEFA Champions League qualification | OneFootball

Tottenham Hotspur are having a challenging season, however, they have received a big boost in their quest to qualify for the Champions League.

In Ange Postecoglou’s first season in charge, the club narrowly lost out on securing qualification for the UEFA Champions League, being pipped to the post by Unai Emery’s Aston Villa - accumulating 66 points to Villa’s 66.

For a large chunk of the 23/24 campaign, it looked like the UEFA coefficient was going to allow five teams from the Premier League to qualify for the Champions League, but poor performances in Europe meant those slots went to Serie A and the Bundesliga instead.

However, according to Football Rankings, there is now a 93.76 chance that the Premier League will have five qualification spots this season, giving Spurs a big boost in their hopes of qualifying for Europe’s premium competition next season.

Tottenham handed boost in hopes for UEFA Champions League qualification

So far, English clubs have been doing quite well in Europe. Liverpool are the only side in the Champions League to have won all five of their league phase games so far, and all four English representatives are either in the automatic qualification spots or in a play-off spot.

In the Europa League, both Spurs and Manchester United occupy a playoff spot, and both sides will fancy their chances at cracking the top eight and avoiding that two-legged play-off tie, which would be a boost for the coefficient.

Then, as you would expect, Chelsea are strolling through the UEFA Conference League, and will be expected to go very far in the competition, particularly after they register their first-choice XI players in January.

Being in the Europa League has probably helped Spurs in a way this season, with Ange being able to rotate players in a way he likely would not have been able to do so in the Champions League. How likely would Will Lankshear have been to have played, and scored, in the Champions League?

However, of course, you don’t want to stay in the Europa League forever, and the goal will be to have that Champions League anthem back at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Spurs have only played four knockout games in the competition at the ‘new’ stadium, and only once since COVID, with three of those games being defeats.

There is no doubt that when the stadium was built, they would have wanted many more of those big games being played in such an arena. This news regarding the coefficient could be huge in their chances of being able to do soon.