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I have discovered from the Guardian newspaper archive from 8th July 1971 the seeding criteria for the first round draws for the European Champions Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and the new UEFA Cup. Clubs who reached the semi-finals of the champion's and cup winners' cups in the past ten years were...

Seeding actually started in the 1967/1968 season, with reference to www.europeancuphistory.com, a seeding system would ensure that the teams from countries that had already supplied finalists would be kept apart until the later stages of the competition http://www.europeancuphistory.com/euro68.html...

According to the English language version of Wikipedia, at least until season 1961-62 teams were split geographically in the round they started from. But analyzing the later draws, one can see that similar geographical (and practically political) splits were the norm at least until the 1970s.

Dear forum colleagues, I am interested to know whether someone has information about how UEFA organized the draws for the European club competitions before the end of the cold war in 1989. Was there any seeding system or another kind of factors that were taken into account, or the draws were complet...

I do not see why would Belgium lose its additional spot in EL qualifying rounds. If Brugge wins ECL it would directly start from the groups and that's it. Why would this impact the qualifying rounds access of the rest of the Belgian clubs?

I have a couple of questions concerning the Europa League sheet: 1. In the Excel file it seems there are 20 teams in the Q1 EL round, while here: https://kassiesa.net/uefa/AccessList2024.html it is expected that 16 will enter the competition at that stage. 2. Also, according to the above-mentioned a...

Last year they announced the group seeding breakdowns for the play-off round draw before the weekend. It was on a Friday night when the teams knew their potential opponents. Do you think we could expect them tonight?

Is anybody aware if there will be playoffs in the Andorran league or are they skipping them due to covid? Yes - only 3 matches instead of 6 though. Here is the official confirmation at the website of the Andorran football federation: https://www.faf.ad/pnfg/NNws_ShwNewDup?codigo=1008005&cod_pri...

I think there is a small mistake here: https://kassiesa.net/uefa/seedel2020.html The line for the 1st Qualifying round for the Montenegrin representative is given as EL1 Mon 0.875 - 4.250 Instead I think it should be Sutjeska Niksic with a coefficient 4.000 which makes it a certain Seeded team for t...