Liverpool followers haven’t had the perfect of relationships with UEFA lately, notably after the occasions of Paris in 2022, however European soccer’s governing physique has offered the Reds with some excellent news on Friday.
The organisation’s web site has printed up to date membership coefficients for the 2024/25 season, and the brand new figures present that Arne Slot’s aspect have risen one place to fourth within the total rating (up one place from 12 months in the past), with solely Manchester Metropolis, Actual Madrid and Bayern Munich forward of them.
The system is used for figuring out the hierarchy of seedings for competitions such because the Champions League, through which LFC will play through the upcoming marketing campaign after lacking out on the 2023/24 version.
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Regardless of the frustration of exiting the Europa League on the quarter-final stage in April, Liverpool nonetheless progressed far sufficient within the competitors to bolster their UEFA coefficient.
Whereas understanding the precise formulae behind the calculation of the rankings – that are utilized over a five-year interval with an more and more heavier weighing in the direction of recency – could be complicated, the easy takeaway is that this could theoretically assist the Reds in future European campaigns.
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It has change into much more vital following UEFA’s revamp of its membership tournaments, the place the rating of every staff is the first determinant for which seeding pot they’ll enter when the attracts are being made.
Underneath the earlier Champions League format, the winners of the primary two continental competitions and the highest six (or seven) home champions have been seeded in Pot 1.
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Subsequently, if Liverpool got here second within the high flight and didn’t win a European trophy, they’d be second seeds regardless of having the next coefficient than a number of the highest-seeded golf equipment.
The Reds would nonetheless have to defeat a excessive calibre of opposition to get to the Champions League remaining, in fact, however their constantly robust performances in Europe below Jurgen Klopp have – theoretically no less than – performed Arne Slot a favour for his first season in cost at Anfield.
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