The top five teams are guaranteed qualification for the league phase of the Champions League, with four regular places boosted by England being one of the two associations with the highest coefficient for 2025-26 to earn one of the European Performance Spots (EPS), as confirmed on 7 April.

Arsenal. Manchester City and Manchester United cannot finish lower than fifth, so have confirmed their Champions League spots. Should Arsenal win this season’s Champions League, that would not earn an extra Champions League berth for English teams.

However, there is a place in the league phase of the Champions League reserved for the Europa League winners – which could be Aston Villa.

Should Villa win the Europa League and finish fourth, nothing would change. If they win it and finish fifth, they would enter the Champions League, as would the sixth-placed team via the EPS – but England would forfeit a Europa League place. If Villa win the Europa League and finish sixth, the Conference League place is forfeited.

Ordinarily, the sixth-placed Premier League team will qualify for the league phase of the Europa League, along with the FA Cup winners. If the FA Cup winners have already qualified for the Champions League, that Europa place reverts to the league.

Because Manchester City have qualified for the Champions League, their Conference League play-off round place earned as Carabao Cup final winners reverts to the league.

If Crystal Palace win the Conference League, they will qualify for the league phase of the Europa League.

The bottom three teams will be relegated to the Championship. Wolverhampton Wanderers‘ relegation was confirmed on 20 April after West Ham’s 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace, while Burnley went down on 22 April after losing 1-0 to Manchester City.