European qualifying

Howler19

As a fan of a club which frequently goes through these qualifiers I think they make for some of the best games of the season and I hope they are included correctly with the new licenses.

Does anyone know how qualifying for the European competitions works in career mode? For example, are there more than one qualifying round? Are they home and away? Do they have it right as far as which league positions and cup winners get automatic group spots or have to go through qualifying?

~Adma~

Same as on 18 as far as the qualifying rounds are concerned, Just 1 round before the group stages. They are 2 leg as before, not sure about the cup winners and league positions though.

gavin2903

There are not enough clubs to have more qualifying rounds so could only imagine it still being as it was before

Howler19

gavin2903 wrote: »

There are not enough clubs to have more qualifying rounds so could only imagine it still being as it was before

There definitely is in the Champions League at least. I apologize since this answer is waaaaay too much but I enjoy thinking about this stuff so I wanted to really test how it could work.

Champions League

26 clubs qualify directly for CL (all of them are in FIFA 19):
Spanish champion
Spanish 2nd place
Spanish 3rd place
Spanish 4th place
English champion
English 2nd place
English 3rd place
English 4th place
Italian champion
Italian 2nd place
Italian 3rd place
Italian 4th place
German champion
German 2nd place
German 3rd place
German 4th place
French champion
French 2nd place
French 3rd place
Russian champion
Russian 2nd place
Portuguese champion
Ukrainian champion
Belgian champion
Turkish champion
Czech champion

That leaves 6 spots in the group stages. There are 22 spots that are accesible to FIFA 19 clubs in CL qualifying , with which you could do three rounds like this:
QR1: 8 teams enter (4 winners to QR2, 4 losers to EL-playoff)
QR2: 4 QR1 winners, 8 enter = 12 teams (6 winners to PO, 6 losers to EL-group)
PO: 6 QR2 winners, 6 enter = 12 teams (6 winners to UCL group, 6 losers to EL-group)

Champions Path CL (3 teams qualify for group stage)
Swiss champion (enter in play-off)
Dutch champion (enter in play-off)
Greek champion (enter in play-off)
Austrian champion (enter in QR2)
Croatian champion (enter in QR2)
Danish champion (enter in QR2)
Polish champion (enter in QR1)
Swedish champion (enter in QR1)
Scottish champion (enter in QR1)
Norwegian champion (enter in QR1)
Finnish champion (enter in QR1)
Irish champion (enter in QR1)

League Path (3 teams qualify for group stage)
Russian 3rd place (enter in play-off)
Portuguese 2nd place (enter in play-off)
Ukrainian 2nd place (enter in play-off))
Belgian 2nd place (enter in QR2)
Turkish 2nd place (enter in QR2)
Czech 2nd place (enter in QR2)
Swiss 2nd place (enter in QR2)
Netherlands 2nd place (enter in QR2)
Greek 2nd place (enter in QR1)
Austrian 2nd place (enter in QR1)

This would actually be very realistic. The main thing that would be a little off apart from teams missing in the champions path would be that league path and champions path get 3 spots each instead of 2 and 4 respectively.

Europa League

Europa League is a little trickier because a lot of clubs are missing, but the solution closest to reality would probably look like this in FIFA 19:

30 teams qualify directly for the group stage:
12 losers from CL qualifying
13 domestic cup winners (ESP, ENG, ITA, DEU, FRA, PRT, BEL, TUR, SUI, CZE, NLD, GRC, AUT)
4 fifth place teams (ESP, ENG, ITA, DEU)
French 4th place

That leaves as many as 18 open spots to complete the group stage, so you can't do much more than one round but there is room for a smaller qualifying round for the lower ranked leagues at least. Preferably there should be some sort of seeding involved here as well.

Play-off round (36 teams, 18 winners qualify for group stages)
Spanish 6th place
Italian 6th place
German 6th place
English EFL cup winners
French league cup winners
Danish cup winners
Polish cup winners
Swedish cup winners
Scottish cup winners
Norwegian cup winners
Irish cup winners
Portuguese 3rd place
Portuguese 4th place
Belgian 3rd place
Belgian 4th place
Turkish 3rd place
Turkish 4th place
Swiss 3rd place
Swiss 4th place
Dutch 3rd place
Dutch 4th place
Greek 3rd place
Austrian 3rd place
Austrian 4th place
Danish 2nd place
Polish 2nd place
Swedish 2nd place
Scottish 2nd place
CL QR1 loser
CL QR1 loser
CL QR1 loser
CL QR1 loser
EL QR winner
EL QR winner
EL QR winner
EL QR winner

Qualifying round (8 teams, 4 winners advance to EL-play-off)
Danish 3rd place
Polish 3rd place
Swedish 3rd place
Scottish 3rd place
Norwegian 2nd place
Norwegian 3rd place
Irish 2nd place
Irish 3rd place

Europa League is obviously not as realistic since a lot of teams are not in the game. Getting the RPL back and adding a few eastern European ROTW clubs would go a long way here.

gavin2903

@Howler19 Best comeback answer I've seen, considering what you've worked out yeah certainly champions league, but still can't imagine it happening tho unfortunately. Like how you thought it out tho