Czech coefficient on the rise. Can the Czech Republic stay in the top 15?

The Czech Republic currently ranks 13th in the European coefficient. This ensures that there will be five Czech clubs in the European Cup for the 2024/2025 season.

The Czech Republic is 0.850 points ahead of the borderline 15th position (Ukraine), which is the last place that ensures the participation of five teams of a given country in European cups. Fourteenth-placed Switzerland is only 0.075 points behind the Czech Republic.

However, the problem for the Swiss is that they have only two representatives in the European Cup. FC Zurich have made it through to the Europa League group stage, where they will face Arsenal, PSV Eindhoven and last season’s excellent FK Bodø/Glimt.

The next and final representative of the Helvetic Cross country is Basel, who we will be able to watch in the Europa League Conference group stage. Here they will play Slovan Bratislava, Armenia’s Pyunik Yerevan and Lithuania’s Vilnius.

The key for the Czech coefficient is how the 15th-placed Ukraine will fare in the European Cup. It has representatives in each of the three cup competitions. Shakhtar Donetsk will play in the Champions League.

Dinamo Kiev will play at least six matches in the Europa League. SK Dnipro, the team from the third largest city in Ukraine, will defend the Ukrainian colours in the conference league.

Shakhtar Donetsk is a regular participant in the Champions League group stage. This season is no different. Ukraine’s most famous club will try to advance from Group F, where they will face Real Madrid, Celtic Glasgow and RB Leipzig.

Dynamo Kyiv will travel south for each of their three away games. The first one is on 8 September in Istanbul. There they will face Fenerbahçe, then Rennes and finally Larnaca in Cyprus.

SK Dnipro also had their sights set on the Europa League, but in the last preliminary round, the aforementioned Larnaca was too much for Dnipro. Valeri Gorodov’s charges will play Alkmaar, Apollon and the team playing in the second Swiss league FC Vaduz.

sources:: football coefficient