UEFA has informed the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) that the seventh-ranked LaLiga team will have a place in the next edition of the Europa League, if the final of the Copa del Rey cannot be played. In this way, UEFA discards the option proposed by the RFEF so that in case the cup final is not played and if one of the two finalists already had a place for European competition, the other finalist would participate in the Europa League 2020-21.

The Cup final, which must face Athletic Club and Real Sociedad in Seville, is in the air and right now, and at the expense of the League being resumed, Real Sociedad is fourth and would be classified for the Champions League together with Barcelona , Real Madrid and Seville. Athletic is tenth.

The communication from UEFA to the RFEF indicates that "for entry into the Europa League 2020-21, in the event that a National Association prematurely ends, for legitimate reasons, a national cup and, consequently, cannot determine the winner by sporting merits, in application of the regulation of the competition, the club of the national league not classified of greater rank is the one that is classified ", confirmed to EFE the European organism.

He also notified that access to the Europa League 2020-21 in the event that the Cup final is completed "in its original format or with another and the classification of the relevant club or clubs is obtained with sporting merits, remains unchanged", as confirmed by EFE the European body.

The RFEF decided last April 16 the classification criteria for European competitions next season and considered three different options depending on whether the Cup final cannot be played. In this case, if the two clubs are in the first six positions and, therefore already classified for Europe, the seventh would go.

If one of the two were classified in the first six, the other finalist would go and if neither of the two finalists were in the first six, it would be the one with the best position in the league competition of the two.

Last classification

Then he also pointed out that the decision on the classification for Europe will be made at the request of UEFA, "according to the classification of the last day of the First Division in equal numbers of games played by the 20 teams" and with certain criteria .

The first four finishers of the First Division would go to the Champions League at that time, and the Europa League would be the fifth and sixth classified with the conditioning factor of the Cup final that should have been played on the 18th.

At the last meeting of its Executive Committee, UEFA gave federations until May 27 to present their guidelines on eligibility for Europe, while recommending "strongly" to finish the leagues. In case of impossibility due to the pandemic, it will require the federations in question to select the teams based on the sports merits in the 2019/20 campaign.

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