Every nation’s champions will still enter the Champions League but only teams from the 15 top-ranked countries will go into the Europa League group stages or qualifiers. Teams below that ranking will go into Europa League 2. He is in favour of a third European competition but wants the Dons to have a say in pushing for less qualifying rounds and earlier group stage qualification. “But when we get there we have group stages earlier as opposed to having four qualifying rounds to go through. Promotion and relegation from the Europa League and the new Europa League 2 have also been suggested.

Source: Express December 18, 2019 13:52 UTC