for some leagues (e.g. germany, netherlands) all CL competitors have to play the qualification now. What’s the reason for that?

new country ? =)

Mhh I posted a similar message in the Bugs part….

Now that we have Russia more teams participate in the qualifying round. The logic to choose these teams is to go through the ranking from bottom up and pick the worst qualified team from each country. When we reach the top we start again from the bottom picking the second worst qualified. This is done until we reach the number of teams needed for the qualifying round.

How do you calculate the “worst qualified team”?

If you have 3 spots, the worst qualified team is the third place. That’s what I mean :)

sorry, but i dont get the logic …
… 1st place in netherlands, germany and russia is worse enough for the quali? right?

That is because of the country ranking. The order it get teams to play qualifying is from the worst country on the ranking. So, it would be russia, netherlands and germany.

We need 18 teams, which are (not sure about rankings last season, but supposing this was the bottom up country ranking):
- worst on Russia (2nd place)
- worst on Netherlands (2nd place)
- worst on Germany (3rd place)
- worst on Italy (3rd place)
- worst on France (3rd place)
- worst on England (4th place)
- worst on Portugal (4th place)
- worst on Spain (4th place)
Then we start bottom up again:
- 2nd worst on Russia (1st place)
- 2nd worst on Netherlands (1st place)
- 2nd worst on Germany (2nd place)
- 2nd worst on Italy (2nd place)
- 2nd worst on France (2nd place)
- 2nd worst on England (3rd place)
- 2nd worst on Portugal (3rd place)
- 2nd worst on Spain (3rd place)
2 teams to go:
- 3rd worst on Russia (none, only had 2 spots)
- 3rd worst on Netherlands (none, only had 2 spots)
- 3rd worst on Germany (1st place)
- 3rd worst on Italy (1st place)
I know, that’s not real life logic, but you should agree it’s fair. With more countries the top countries champion won’t be on Qualifying round anymore ;)

allright, thanks for the explanation, Gabriel!

Yes, thanks a lot for the explanation!!
Obviously it’s not real life logic, but I agree you need some way to gather enought teams for the qualifying round.

Best regards!
Javier.