Where Italy stands in race for extra Champions League spot after Inter loss and Bologna and Fiorentina wins

BODO, NORWAY – FEBRUARY 18: Francesco Pio Esposito of FC Internazionale Milano celebrates scoring his group’s first aim with teammates in the course of the UEFA Champions League 2025/26 League Knockout Play-off First Leg match between FK Bodo/Glimt and FC Internazionale Milano at Aspmyra Stadion on February 18, 2026 in Bodo, Norway. (Photograph by Martin Ole Wold/Getty Pictures)

Italy’s possibilities of attaining a further spot in subsequent 12 months’s Champions League stay slim regardless of a Europa League and Convention League victories for play-off victory for Bologna over Brann on Thursday night time, as Inter added to Juventus and Atalanta losses with their 3-1 defeat towards Bodo/Glimt.

The place Italy stands in race for additional Champions League spot after play-off first legs

As issues stand, Italy stays in fifth place in UEFA’s season affiliation coefficient rating, which is used to find out the nations that obtain an additional spot within the following 12 months’s Champions League. Solely the nations that end the season within the high two will obtain a further Champions League place.

It hasn’t been a superb week for the Italian sides competing in Europe, as three of the 5 groups competing over the previous few weeks slipped to defeats: Juventus had been overwhelmed 5-2 by GalatasarayAtalanta had been overwhelmed 2-0 by Borussia Dortmund and Inter had been overwhelmed 3-1 by Bodo/Glimtall within the Champions League on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Bologna beat Brann 1-0 away from house on Thursday, whereas Fiorentina picked up a 3-0 win away towards Jagiellonia.

These outcomes go away Italy in fifth place in UEFA’s season affiliation coefficient rating with a rating of 16.071 factors.

England high the rankings with 21.513, Germany are at present second with 17.071, Portugal are third with 16.600 and Spain are fourth with 16.156.

How is the additional Champions League spot decided?

The nations that end the season within the high two on UEFA’s season affiliation coefficient are awarded one extra spot every within the following season’s Champions League.

So, how does the coefficient rating work?

Groups competing within the three UEFA competitions (the Champions League, Europa League and Convention League) are awarded factors primarily based on their leads to the European competitions. Nations are awarded two factors for every of its groups’ wins, one for a draw and nil for a defeat. These factors are halved for qualifying matches.

Bonus factors are additionally awarded relying on every group’s end within the league part desk. The group that finishes high of the Champions League pile will get a further 12 factors, the group in second will get 11.750, the group in third will get 11.500 and so forth all the best way right down to the group in thirty sixth. The winner of the Europa League league part is awarded 6 factors and 4 for the group on the high of the Convention League desk. Factors are awarded for locations 1-24 in each the Europa League and Convention League.

Further bonus factors are additionally awarded for every knockout stage {that a} group passes by way of.

All of these factors are added up and are then divided by the variety of groups that the nation in query has competing in UEFA competitions.

Italy’s collective factors tally stands at 112.500, which involves a coefficient rating of 16.071 when divided by the variety of Italian sides concerned in European competitors this season (seven).

That rating of 16.071 retains Italy in fifth place on this season’s affiliation coefficient rating.

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