The Poor Results of Dutch Clubs in Europe Seem to Be Causing a Setback for the Netherlands in The Coefficient Ranking. Just this season, The Netherlands Could Lose A Direct Champions League ticket.
The Coefficient Ranking Determines How Many Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League Tickets A Country Receives. In recent years, The Netherlands Has Performed Excellently in Europe and Has Therefore Climbed to Sixth Place, Good for Two Direct Champions League tickets.
But that seems to be a thing of the past soon. This is primarily due to the dramatic start of the Dutch clubs in the European Main Tournaments. PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles, and FC Utrecht All Lost Their First Match and Therefore Did not Earn Any Points for the Netherlands.
More Importantly, After this Season, The Points From The 2021/2022 Season Will Expire. The Netherlands then had a top year, partly due to feyenoord’s final spot in The Conference League, but Will Soon Lose a Large Number of Points.
Portugal, and Especiate Belgium, Scored Less in 2021/2022 and Will Therefore Benefit Next Year. As a result, The Netherlands Threates to fall to Eighth Place by then. Belgium is still far away and will only be a threat next season. Portugal is Getting Closer and Closer. This Season is Therefore about Maintaining Sixth Place for the Netherlands.
And that is QUITE A JOB, EVEN Thought all six Dutch Clubs Are Still Active in Europe. Portugal Has Four of the Five Clubs Left, Belgium Even Three of the Five. Yet Both Countries Have Scored A Lot More Points This Season Than The Netherlands.
This is because it is Belgium and Portugal Have Earned More Points per good result than the Netherlands. Because the Netherlands started the Season with Six Clubs, The Points Earned by PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord, Go Ahead Eagles, AZ, and FC Utrecht Must Be Divided by Six. For the Portuguese and Belgian Clubs, the Points Are Divided by Five.
In Addition, Feyenoord’s Champions League Elimination Has Adverke Consequences. Club Brugge and Benfica Did Reach the Main Tournament of the Champions League via The Preliminary Rounds. As a result, they have already grabbed a nice bonus for their country, in contrast to feyenoord.
These Champions League Bonuses Make the Difference in the Coefficient Ranking, as we explain in this article. Every Champions League Participant Earns A Guaranteed Bonus, which only Increases Further If Clubs Finish in the Top 24.
The Europa League and Conference League clubs Only Receive Bonus Points IF They Survive the Competition Phase. Feyenoord has to go very far in the Europa League to make up for the loss of the champions League bonuses.
It is Therefore Not Such Good News That Belgium and Portugal Have Fwer European Representatives than the Netherlands. Because the differentence is Really Made in the Champions League. In IT, not only PSV and Ajax, But also Union Saint-Gilloise, Club Brugge, Benfica and Sporting CP Are Active.
The defeats of PSV and Feyenoord Against Union Saint-Gilloise and SC Braga do Not Help Either. Actually, The only Question Now is: When Will the Netherlands Lose Sixth Place Again?
Maybe just this season, if it continues like this? Chaser Portugal started the Season with Six Points Behind the Netherlands. But that gap has now almost leg halved.
At the end of January – as soon as the competition phase of the champions league is over and the bonuses are distributed – we will know more. Until then, it is a matter of limiting damage for the Netherlands, just though there are no more than six Eredivisie clubs Active in Europe.