With the elimination of PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League on Wednesday, the Netherlands can no longer dislodge France in the UEFA coefficient. There will therefore be three direct folding seats for the pools and another in the preliminary round of C1 for the 2025-2026 season.
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The suspense was thin, it is now over. France is officially guaranteed to maintain its fifth place in the UEFA index after the elimination of PSV Eindhoven on the lawn of Borussia Dortmund, Wednesday March 13, in the round of 16 (1-1, 2-0) of the League of Nations. champions. The Netherlands, currently sixth in the ranking, will not surpass it this season.
Before the matches of Olympique Marseille in the Europa League, and Lille in the Europa League conference on Thursday, Ligue 1 has 64,997 points. A total that the Dutch can no longer reach with Ajax Amsterdam as the last European representative in C4 (64,300 points maximum). Especially since Paris Saint-Germain is still involved in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Thanks to this, France will send four teams to C1 during the 2025-2026 season: three directly in the single pool of 36, and one additional team in the preliminary round, as will already be the case in 2024-2025. In total, seven French clubs will compete in a European Cup.
