with the late Rangers goal at Sporting, Switzerland remains 16th in the UEFA ranking.. well, for next season the 13th place counts and we depend who is going to win the CL. If Tottenham or Schalke would win it, the Swiss champions (currently Basel) would have to go in the qualifcation round. it doesn't change anything for the 2nd placed team (currently Zurich) who has to go into the non-Champion qualifiers where they could face teams like Rubin Kazan or Benfica for example. and it doesn't change anything for the Europa league, where the teams go into Q4 (Sion, YB, Lucerne, Xamax or Zurich, Biel), Q3 (maybe YB, Lucerne, Sion...) or Q2 (Lucerne, Sion, YB, Biel...)
if Schalke win the pot, Basel or the swiss champs would have to go to the CL qualifiers, so Schalke's victory yesterday was not so good for Basel
The ball is still round, but Man U, Barca, and Real are a step above Inter and several steps above Schalke.
yes, and you never know with the Germans well. probably we will have something like (sorry, but not betting on Biel, either): CL Group Basel CL NCQ3 Zürich EL Q4 Sion, Xamax or YB EL Q3 YB EL Q2 Sion, Lucerne or Xamax this would give us the following dates for the swiss clubs: June 20, 2011 draw EL Q2 July 14, 2011 2nd qualifying round Europa League, 1st leg July 15, 2011 draw for 3rd qualifying round Europa League July 15, 2011 draw for 3rd qualifying round Champions League July 21, 2011 2nd qualifying round Europa League, 2nd leg July 26/27, 2011 3rd qualifying round Champions League, 1st leg July 28, 2011 3rd qualifying round Europa League, 1st leg August 2/3, 2011 3rd qualifying round Champions League, 2nd leg August 4, 2011 3rd qualifying round Europa League, 2nd leg August 5, 2011 draw for 4th qualifying round (play-off round) Champions League draw for 4th qualifying round (play-off round) Europa League August 16/17, 2011 4th qualifying round Champions League, 1st leg August 18, 2011 4th qualifying round Europa League, 1st leg August 23/24, 2011 4th qualifying round Champions League, 2nd leg August 25, 2011 draw for Champions League group stage August 25, 2011 4th qualifying round Europa League, 2nd leg August 26, 2011 draw for Europa League group stage September 13/14, 2011 1st match Champions League group stage ...
as Schalke is out, the Swiss champions will be directly qualified for the CL - Basel vs Zurich is going to be kind of a CL qualification match