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Published Date: 04 April 2010

By Ewing Grahame

RANGERS could still be forced to take part in the Champions League qualifying rounds next season if, as expected, they clinch the Scottish Premier League title.

The financially troubled Ibrox side, and the Lloyds Banking Group, have been eagerly anticipating an estimated £10 million cash injection from competing in the elite club competition to help reduce the club's £31m debt.

However, it has emerged that their path to the group phase may not be automatic if CSKA Moscow or Lyon are the winners of this year's Champions League.

The Russians have already failed to qualify for next season's Champions League and Lyon are also in danger of missing out – unless either one claims the trophy in Madrid on 22 May.

UEFA changed the rules for qualification after Liverpool beat AC Milan to win it in 2005. They had finished fifth in the Premiership that year and should have had to settle for a UEFA Cup place. Now holders qualify automatically – and that could pose problems for Rangers.

"The top 12 countries in Europe have their champions qualify automatically but we're currently 13th," said an SPL spokesman. "As long as the eventual winners have already qualified through their own league then Rangers will be okay. However, the Russian season has recently finished and CSKA Moscow finished fifth, meaning they will miss out.

"Lyon could also fail to claim a place. There are only four points between the top six clubs in Ligue 1. Since only three French clubs enter the competition they may also fail. Should either of those clubs then go on to win the Champions League then Rangers would need to play two qualifying rounds in order to reach the group stage."

However, the consolation for Rangers if that happened is that they would be one of the seeded clubs in that draw.

"Rangers would then be in what is knows as the Champions' Qualifying Pathway," said the spokesman. "That would mean they would have two qualifying rounds to play but both would be against teams from countries ranked below us. They would face ties which would be, on the face of it, much easier than the task Celtic faced last year when they were drawn against Arsenal."

CSKA Moscow are at home against Internazionale in the quarter-final second leg on Tuesday after losing 1-0 in Italy. If they reach the semis they will face Arsenal or Barcelona. Lyon travel to Bordeaux the next evening, 3-1 ahead. Should they qualify, they will meet Manchester United or Bayern Munich.

Speaking in February, Rangers chairman Alastair Johnston said qualifying for the Champions League was "crucial".

From 2011, the SPL champions will only be able to reach the group phase by overcoming seeded clubs from England, Spain, France, Germany and Italy.

Can't see either winning though Lyon may go through now to the Semi's and they have a lot of quality.

http://sport.scotsman.com/football/Rangers-could-still-face-Champions.6202712.jp

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There is no way we will need to qualify. Lyon will qualify for CL through their league position. They are currently top of the league. CSKA Moscow will not make the semis, never mind win the thing.

I think we can safely say that Scottlish football's future participation in Europe will be the Europa League only. It will be a long time before we qualify for the CL again.

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There is something not quite right in that story IMO, although if Uefa have suddenly moved the goalposts for next season regarding participation to the Champions League it is a disturbing event.

If the story is 100% correct however, I can't see either those two teams win the CL this season although one of them may get to the final.Lyon are in the box seat after getting the dodgiest penalty I've ever seen against Bordeaux but they leak at the back big time.Inter might not fancy the trip to Moscow either and I wouldn't be surprised to see an upset with this one.

I think we had better make the most of next seasons CL games because we might not see too many more of them for a few years if we don't get a buyer.

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Lyon are top of their league and CSKA wont win the Champions League, what an utter load of shite from tims with typewriters clutching at straws.

And I wonder who this 'SPL spokesman' was, the janitor?

Aye I wasn't sure on the Lyon situation but I had thought they would be in a qualifying position.

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Published Date: 04 April 2010

By Ewing Grahame

From 2011, the SPL champions will only be able to reach the group phase by overcoming seeded clubs from England, Spain, France, Germany and Italy.

Poor Ewing gets most of his story right except the final bit above. That is just completely wrong. The entry path from countries 13 and lower avoids anything to do with teams from the top five countries.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/access2010.html

You must do better next time, Ewing. doh

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I think we can safely say that Scottlish football's future participation in Europe will be the Europa League only. It will be a long time before we qualify for the CL again.

I think we had better make the most of next seasons CL games because we might not see too many more of them for a few years if we don't get a buyer.

I don't blame you guys for thinking that because Ewing and his mhedia chums keep getting this wrong.

The SPL winners in future will have the Champions path towards group stage qualification. This excludes any matches against teams from the top five countries. It is only the Non Champions path that has a final qualifying match against Eng4, Sp4, It4, Ger3 or Fr3.

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By Ewing Grahame

From 2011, the SPL champions will only be able to reach the group phase by overcoming seeded clubs from England, Spain, France, Germany and Italy.

Poor Ewing gets most of his story right except the final bit above. That is just completely wrong. The entry path from countries 13 and lower avoids anything to do with teams from the top five countries.

http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/access2010.html

You must do better next time, Ewing. doh

Do you think our friend Ewing would have got it as badly wrong if it had perhaps been another Scottish (sic) side leading the table by 13 points?

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Were the hells the link to this story boab ffs!? My pet hate .. cunts throwing up quotes and no links!!

:lol:

Nothing in this story to worry us, chances of Lyon winning the CL and not qualifying through their league are almost zero, the only lower chance is that of CSKA winning the CL!

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I think we can safely say that Scottlish football's future participation in Europe will be the Europa League only. It will be a long time before we qualify for the CL again.

I think we had better make the most of next seasons CL games because we might not see too many more of them for a few years if we don't get a buyer.

I don't blame you guys for thinking that because Ewing and his mhedia chums keep getting this wrong.

The SPL winners in future will have the Champions path towards group stage qualification. This excludes any matches against teams from the top five countries. It is only the Non Champions path that has a final qualifying match against Eng4, Sp4, It4, Ger3 or Fr3.

(tu) Cheers Boss i had believed that pish they had written as fact.

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think inter will do cska myself

if inter score cska have a mountain to climb with the away goal and sneijder looked good first leg they missed some amoumt of chances

lyon i think will get through this round but not much further

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Ewing FCUKIN Grahame !!!!! Another BHEGGAR with a keyboard ! Fcuk me if these cnuts spent more time on reporting fairly then maybe a lot more culprits as well as torbett would have been convicted. Instead of scribing meaningless shite like this just to have a pop at the Rangers and their fans ! :sherlock:

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Ewing FCUKIN Grahame !!!!! Another BHEGGAR with a keyboard ! Fcuk me if these cnuts spent more time on reporting fairly then maybe a lot more culprits as well as torbett would have been convicted. Instead of scribing meaningless shite like this just to have a pop at the Rangers and their fans ! :sherlock:

Aye, but do you think CSKA will get through? :craphead:

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