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How nine teams in Europe affects Premier LeagueImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Crystal Palace became the ninth Premier League club to qualify for Europe by winning the Conference League on WednesdayByDale Johnson
For the second season in a row, the Premier League will have nine teams in Europe.
Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Aston Villa and Liverpool will take part in the Champions League.
In the Europa League, Bournemouth and Sunderland qualified via the league. Crystal Palace booked their spot by beating Rayo Vallecano 1-0 in the Conference League final.
Brighton complete the set by entering the qualifying rounds of the Conference League.
With so many clubs having their midweeks taken up by European football, there will be knock-on effects for the Premier League.
Here are a few things to look out for.
Image source, Getty ImagesTottenham fans might have to get used to more Monday and Friday night games without any midweek European football
Last season, fans of a few clubs started to realise a trend – they were being picked by Sky Sports for live broadcast on a Friday or a Monday night more often than usual.
It was an annoyance at first – then these clubs moved past the supposed five-game limit for selection.
It was partly because nine clubs were locked out of Fridays and Mondays in European weeks. For the most part, only 11 teams were even able to play on those days.
And Sky Sports was eager to show the clubs who bring in bigger viewing figures.
By the end of the season, Manchester United had played eight times on a Friday or Monday, with Everton, Leeds and West Ham shown on seven occasions. Brighton were only shown once, Burnley and Fulham twice.
Next season, Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham could find themselves losing weekend fixtures, often having to find a way to watch their team on a Friday or a Monday.
Perhaps with Everton and Leeds also being attractive for Sky, the effect might be diluted with the slots spread around more clubs.
But with Manchester United and West Ham no longer available, maybe not.
There were nine clubs in Europe this season too, so why would next season bring fewer Saturday matches?
With Palace qualifying as an additional team in the Europa League as a title holder, it means four teams must play on a Thursday rather than three.
And teams who play on a Thursday cannot play on a Saturday.
So unless two of these teams are playing each other, four of the 10 matches will have to move to Sunday or Monday.
And that is before you factor in the games selected for television.
Saturdays with only three or four Premier League games might become common next season, with fewer games at 15:00.
The current broadcast deal means that all the games that are moved will be on television.
Image source, Getty ImagesWest Ham will have to enter the EFL Cup in the first round because of the number of Premier League clubs in Europe
Teams qualifying for Europe receive a bye to the third round of the EFL Cup.
And ordinarily, the teams who finish 18th and 19th in the Premier League receive a bye into round two – with the rest of the top-flight teams who avoided relegation.
But all this depends on the number of clubs who qualify for Europe, which affects the number of slots in the third round. The more teams who get a bye to round three, the fewer slots there are for teams to come through round two.
For the straight knockout format to work, there must be 32 teams in round three.
That means if eight teams have had a bye through qualifying for Europe, 24 teams must come through from the second round.
And that means 24 knockout ties in round two – which must therefore have 48 teams. And it means 36 teams must come through from the first round.
For the maths to work, West Ham and Burnley must start in the first round, to be played on the weekend of 7-9 August. They make it 72 teams and 36 first-round ties.
With nine teams having qualified, it is a little more complicated.
Only 23 slots are available in round three, so the EFL must lose a tie – or two teams – via preliminary round fixtures.
It will feature the two teams promoted from the National League – York and Rochdale – and the clubs who were 21st and 22nd in League Two – Tranmere and Crawley.
But there is a snag, because the first round is regionalised into northern and southern sections.
When this happened last season, there was the perfect solution. Accrington played Oldham and Barnet took on Newport – one winner feeding into the north and the other to the south.
Next season, three northern clubs and one from the south are set to be in the preliminary round.
The EFL could choose Crawley to play Tranmere – the most southerly of the three northern clubs in the preliminary round.
Rochdale and York would then meet in a repeat of last season’s dramatic automatic promotion decider.
But Tranmere are also the furthest club west – indeed all three northern clubs are a similar distance from Crawley. So the EFL might just hold an open draw for the preliminary round – and one club would have to go into the south for the first round.
The EFL could then potentially rebalance the regions for the second-round draw, if for instance York were misplaced in the south.
As the preliminary round will take place just before the first round, there is realistically not enough time to play those ties, and then hold another draw.
From 1 July, the Premier League will move to a new system of financial regulation.
Profit and sustainability will be replaced by squad cost ratio.
In simple terms, the more you earn, the more you can spend.
Crucially, the figure is different if you are in Europe.
Uefa limits clubs to 70% of revenue. This will apply to the nine clubs who have qualified.
But the Premier League figure is 85%, with the potential to spend up to 115%. The 11 clubs who do not have European football can spend this.
It is intended to give clubs not in Europe the ability to compete with those receiving Uefa broadcast revenue.
But it would greatly benefit a club such as Tottenham, who had revenues of £585m in 2024-25.
Potentially, it could mean a rotating list of teams who qualify year to year, especially in the Europa League and Conference League.
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