Turkey approaches the critical threshold

Although Turkey started this season from 20th place in the UEFA country points ranking, by the end of group matches in tournaments, they moved up 8 places and took 12th place.

In Turkey, which featured in European cups this season with Fenerbahçe, Trabzonspor, Medipol Başakşehir, Demir Grup Sivasspor and Arabam.com Konyaspor, only Konyaspor have said goodbye to Europe so far.

Fenerbahce, as UEFA Europa League group leaders, advanced directly to the round of 16, while Başakşehir and Sivasspor completed their groups at the top of the UEFA European Conference League and made a name for themselves directly in the round of 16 .

Trabzonspor, meanwhile, had a chance to continue their way through the last 16 rounds of the Conference League Play-Off as third place in the group, although they failed to advance to the next round of the Europa League.

IF TURKEY REMAINS IN THE TOP 15…

Completing the last season in 20th place, Turkey will send 4 teams to Europe in 2023-2024.

The team, which will reach a happy ending in the Super League this season, will play 4 ties to stay in the Champions League groups next season. The other 3 teams that will go to Europe will compete in the Conference League.

Rising to 12th place with this season’s exit, Turkey will once again increase the number of teams to 5 in the 2024-2025 season and will send 2 teams to the Champions League if it remains in the top 15 at the end of the season.

CRITICAL THRESHOLD RANK 10

Countries that are in the top 10 of the standings can send teams directly to the Champions League.

Consequently, if Turkey enters the top 10 at the end of the season, the 2023-2024 Super League champions will be included directly in the Giants League.

If Turkey finish this season in 11th place, to send a team directly to the Champions League, they will wait for the team that reaches the trophy in the Champions League next season to get a ticket to the Giants League in their own league as well. .

GREAT ADVANTAGE

While Turkey ranks 12th in the country’s points standings with 31.1 points, they also have the advantage of touring with 4 teams.

Among Turkey’s rivals, only one team each continues their European adventure: Austria, ranked 10th with 33.6 points, Serbia, ranked 11th with 31,875 points, and Switzerland, ranked 13th with 29,175. points.

IT CAME TO TURKEY LIKE A DRUG

Thanks to the Conference League put in place by UEFA last season, teams held a longer place in Europe and benefited from the scoring system.

Until last season, only 80 teams appeared in the Champions League and Europa League groups, and at the end of the group matches, 48 ​​teams continued on their way.

Thanks to the Conference League, the number of teams playing group matches increased to 96 and the number of teams that had a chance to advance to the next round increased to 64. In this way, the teams had the opportunity to stay longer. On the European stage, play more matches and earn more points. With the new format, the bonus points were also reviewed and increased, allowing clubs and thus countries to reach more points.

For example, in previous years in the Europa League, 1 (one) bonus point was awarded for each round, starting from the quarterfinals only. In other words, the bonus points that the champion team would earn were only 3. With the new system, in addition to these, the team that emerges as group leader in the Europa League earns 5 bonus points. The runner-up team, on the other hand, gets 2 bonus points and gets 1 more point if they make it through the last 16 play-off rounds. In the Conference League, which started last season, the group leader gets 2 bonus points and the group runner-up gets 1 bonus point.

LIVE THE 4TH SEASON OF THE BEST IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL

Due to regular format and scoring changes implemented by UEFA, Turkey is having its fourth most successful season, as assessed based on in-season ratings alone.

Turkey had its most successful season in the 1996-1997 season. Having entered the European arena with Fenerbahçe, Beşiktaş, Trabzonspor and Galatasaray, Turkey became the fourth highest scoring country with 7.75 points. Spain with 11.6 points, Italy with 10,142 points and Germany with 9,142 points are in the top 3 places in the classification.

Sharing fifth place with Germany, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia in the 1959-1960 season, Turkey finished the 2000-2001 season as the sixth best country.

Turkey also became the seventh most successful country in the 1963-1964, 1999-2000, 2007-2008, 2012-2013 and 2016-2017 seasons.

This season, Turkey is in the position of the 6th highest scoring country with 10.8 points.

England leads the standings with 16,571 points, followed by Germany with 13.75 points, Spain with 12,428 points, Italy with 11,928 points and France with 10,916 points.
Following its European journey with 4 teams, Turkey is followed by Belgium with 10.6 points, the Netherlands with 10.3 points and Portugal with 10 points, continuing with the same number of teams.

(AA)