And there were some shock elimination this week. Rangers out, Anderlecht out. In the new format starting next year, these teams would have a fallback, gong to UC as a second chance, but this year it means over and out. And it means a blow for the coefficient of Scotland and Belgium. Where Scotland was cruising for the 10th spot, now they will have to fight for the 12th, as that is an important one in the new format: direct entry to the CL -GS!
The new season of the CL & UC has started. So it's time to start up the new sheets regarding who will qualify for which round in the CL and Uc of 2009/2010. There will be a format change for as well the CL, where the qualification for the Groupstage is split between champions and not champions, as for the UC, where there will be a groupstage with 12 groups of 4, and therefor also logically the qualification process is turned around. Another remarkable change is that losers of CL-qualification matches drop back to the UC, which means that CL participants (except for qualifiers for the 6 lowest countries that play in Q0) are guaranteed 4 European matches. You will see these new rounds in my sheets.
The current filling of the sheets is very volatile, as the new winter season has just started. A lot still haven't started yet at all. For those I have used last years result. What is already up to speed is the predicted team- and country-ranking '09 based on higher coeff
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Welcome all, Kaiser has provided me with this fantastic new environment to put my comments on the latest things happening around Europe that influences the teams participating in te European cups this ánd next year. You can find the links to my sheets ....( I still have to ask Kaiser where I can put my links to my sheets - I guess it's not under site friends, wher you can find links to Bert's site (of course) and to sites of other forum mebers like Forza, Tony and Edgar)
Please write your comments on the enhancements of my site? Do you like it or not? do you think something is missing or something should be left out(for instance my comments could be found useless)
I'd like to thank Kaiser again for his great work in providing me with this site, I still got to learn to work with it.