Europa League 2025-26

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I know no-one was doing it really, the paper were just making up a story that their readers will swallow on why Israeli teams are still in the competition. As they were stating initially that the Qatari's had bought FIFA and using their influence there to pressure UEFA, I was wondering what bollocks they imagined the Americans were bringing to counter Qatari's money.

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Pro-Palestinian protesters, most of them PAOK fans, gather ahead of a Europa League soccer match between PAOK and Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.

[Somniloquism]

Seems Sky is the first other news source to cover it. Although most seems to be gathering thoughts from different people rather then anything concrete.

https://news.sky.com/story/high-level-talks-in-european-football-about-whether-to-ban-israel-from-international-competitions-13437606

https://news.sky.com/story/trump-administration-will-work-to-prevent-banning-israel-from-international-football-13437794

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After the first round of matches, England are fourth in the 5th place CL coefficient with our rivals main rivals between 0.5 and 1.0 below us. The three teams above us will soon drop down as they are smaller nations won't go far but have fluked a win.

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What will happens points wise for us if the Tel Aviv match is cancelled.

Regulation 29.03 states...

"If a club is disqualified or for any reason withdraws from the competition before all its matches in the league phase have been played, the results of all its matches played until that moment remain valid. A calculation of points will need to take place upon completion of the league phase to take the cancelled matches into account. Any club that has not been able to play its scheduled match against a disqualified/withdrawn club is awarded the average number of points earned by all clubs in its same seeding pot against the clubs in the same pot as that disqualified/withdrawn club in home matches, if the affected club was due to play at home, or in away matches if the affected club was due to play away. The league phase points of all matches that have been played, including the points obtained by clubs in matches involving the disqualified/withdrawn club before their disqualification/withdrawal are not adjusted in any way, and all taken into account for the average points calculation."

https://documents.uefa.com/r/Regulations-of-the-UEFA-Europa-League-2025/26/Article-29-Refusal-to-play-and-similar-cases-Online