Good news for the team that finishes the league in seventh position; a place that grants participation in the next Europa League, once Real Sociedad, Athletic de Bilbao and the Spanish Federation decided to postpone the dispute of the final of the Copa del Rey. UEFA has decided that the previous two competitions will be played as a single match, with the exception of the last qualifying round of the Champions League, which will be played in a double game, but in no case would affect any Spanish team.
Because the only Spanish team that will play the European qualifiers prior to the group stage will be the seventh ranked in the League. And it is a position that Valencia could occupy at the end of the season; in fact, it is the one occupied when the stoppage occurred due to the State of Alarm. For that team, the calendar was excessively saturated as they had to play six summer games, as happened to Espanyol last season, but now it is softened a lot because there will be a maximum of three and also located on the calendar once the league has already started. the next campaign, so you will not have to do a previous shoot that disrupts your plans.
UEFA has decided that its first two qualifying rounds of the Europa League will be played on August 20 and 27, but the seventh place in the Spanish league has not yet appeared on the scene; and that the last three are played on September 17, September 24 and October 1. Those would therefore be the dates of Valencia’s matches if the league ends in seventh place. That is, it would start playing the European previews once the first day of the 2020-2021 league had already been played, scheduled for the weekend of September 12 and 13.
The field where each of these decisive matches of each of the previous qualifiers will be played will be determined by a pure draw without taking into account the UEFA coefficients of the teams in question.
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