Borussia Dortmund are responsible for bizarre season which saw 12 Bundesliga teams qualify for Europe

Borussia Dortmund are responsible for a bizarre Bundesliga season that saw 12 Bundesliga teams qualify for Europe.

In the reformatted edition of next season's Champions League , the two countries with the highest co-efficient will be given an extra group-stage place.With Italy already comfortably top of the co-efficiency standings ahead of the quarter finals of this year’s European competition,That year Dortmund won the Champions League , while Schalke claimed the UEFA Cup. This meant that some 12 of the 18 Bundesliga teams qualified to play in a European competition the following season.

Meanwhile, as winners of that season’s UEFA Cup, 12th placed Schalke qualified for the tournament the following season. That meant that two thirds of the Bundesliga’s teams played in Europe in the 1997/98 campaign. Sport journalist with experience writing on football, rugby, boxing and the Olympics. I'm also a Crystal Palace fan. Please don't hold this against me.Bayern Munich pip Borussia Dortmund to Bundesliga title in dramatic fashionWhy Man City and Arsenal matches in Champions League have to kick off at the same time

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