BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains what happens to England's places in the Champions League, should Aston Villa win the Europa League
Because of the performance of English clubs in Uefa's three club competitions this season - the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League - England were given one of two Elite Performance Spots .
It means that instead of four Premier League clubs qualifying for next season's Champions League, England will have five. Spain have also won an EPS, with Real Betis taking the extra spot. Because of that, clubs in the Premier League's top five will play in next season's top-tier Champions League. One of the other ways of qualifying for next season's Champions League is by winning the Europa League.
Villa face German side Freiburg on Wednesday night in this season's Europa League final in Istanbul, Turkey. In the scenario where Villa were to win the Europa League and finish in fifth spot, it would mean that England's EPS will be taken by the Premier League team finishing sixth.
Aston Villa's result against Freiburg will have a major impact on who qualifies for next season's Champions League Should they beat Freiburg, the only way England will have six spots in the Champions League is if Villa were to finish in fifth place. In that scenario, England's five spots would be made up of the top four Premier League clubs and sixth, as Villa's qualification would technically be as the winners of the Europa League and not as a Premier League qualifier.
However if Villa do finish in the top four, having won the Europa League, England will miss out on the chance of having six English clubs. Instead, the top five would be England's five representatives in the competition. In this scenario, Portuguese side Sporting would be moved from the third qualifying round to the league phase. Sporting are the highest-ranked team via Uefa's club coefficient rankings to have earned a qualifying round spot for next season's competition.
Because Sporting would be moved up from the third round of qualifying, the two sides ranked highest that are entering the league path's second qualifying round will advance into the third round. Bodo/Glimt and Olympiakos are the two sides in line to be moved forward one round of qualifying in that scenario. In the scenario where Freiburg win the Europa League, they will qualify for the Champions League, and the Premier League's top five clubs will enter the Champions League.
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