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Author: dinamo_fan
Date: 03-11-2009, 11:01

because points in EL are accessible to more teams from more countries than in UCL i am starting this topic in order to find out what the general prediction for next year's EL play-off seeding border. as we were used to UEFA cup round 1 (just before the groups as the playoff is now) we had 80 teams and in the last 3 uefa cup years the last seeded team had constantly 20-21 coeff so we knew where to look for a seeded spot. now on the other hand the EL play-off had 76 teams at start but an unexpected last seeded Odense with 12.890 coeff. my question is: can this low coeff guarantee a seeded spot next year or will the stakes go up towards that 20-21 coeff we were used to these last years ?

currently there are about 30 teams that share coeffs between 13.000 and 21.000, half of which still engaged in this years EL/UCL groups.

here is a list of some teams still in battle that might improve their chances to be seeded next year if they score points in the remaining matches they have this year:

team / coeff

dinamo zagreb 12.336
fc salzburg 12.415
genoa 13.124
partizan 13.700
rubyn kazan 15.091
cska sofia 15.300
cfr cluj 15.598
u urziceni 15.598
toulouse 16.081
austria wien 16.415
a bilbao 17.751
fulham 18.228
maccabi haifa 19.525
fc twente 19.576

Re: EL playoff seeding next year
Author: drunvalo Date: 03-11-2009, 16:05	When the edge of seeded teams was 20-21 the country contribution was 0,33 of the country ranking. Since last year it is 0,2, so the border of seeded teams dropped

Author: dinamo_fan
Date: 03-11-2009, 17:45
Edited by: dinamo_fan
at: 03-11-2009, 17:47

but there are 1.5 coeff points for reaching the play-off / team and 2 points for the GS where there are more teams than last time.. so there will me much more teams to improve their own team coeff not to mention the ones that reach UCL via champions-playoff and get 4 points from the start.

i considered also that the extra 2 games in EL GS compensate the 2 matches of R1 of UC in where normal pts were given.