{"id":14063,"date":"2025-05-05T04:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/arsene-wenger-europa-league-winners-should-not-get-champions-league-football\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T04:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:40:39","slug":"arsene-wenger-europa-league-winners-should-not-get-champions-league-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/arsene-wenger-europa-league-winners-should-not-get-champions-league-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsene Wenger: Europa League winners should not get Champions League football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says it is &#8220;not right&#8221; that the Europa League winners qualify for the Champions League.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United and Tottenham are vying for a position in the Europa League final in Bilbao on 21 May, with both sides holding aggregate advantages heading into the semi-final second legs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both teams are guaranteed to finish outside of the European qualification places in the Premier League with United currently in 15th and Spurs in 16th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Uefa amended its rules in 2014 to allow Europa League winners to qualify for the following season&#8217;s Champions League tournament but Wenger disagrees with the policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if it was &#8220;right&#8221; for the winners to qualify for the Champions League, Wenger told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/beINSPORTS_EN\/status\/1919096881558233316\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">BeIN Sports<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>: &#8220;No &#8211; they should qualify automatically for the Europa League again but not necessarily for the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Especially when you&#8217;re in the Premier League where already five teams qualify.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s something (for Uefa) to think about and to review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;On the other hand people will tell you that to keep the Europa League focused, interesting and motivated you need to give them that prize (of qualifying for the Champions League).&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c75d266npk1o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says it is &#8220;not right&#8221; that the Europa League winners qualify for the Champions League. Manchester United and Tottenham are vying for a position in the Europa League final in Bilbao on 21 May, with both sides holding aggregate advantages heading into the semi-final second legs. Both teams are guaranteed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14065,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14063\/revisions\/14065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}