The CL qualifying includes some teams that shouldn't be in the competition, and a reworking of the qualification process will lead to a better tournament. First, the runners up of leagues ranked 10-15 do NOT belong in the CL. They are not champions, and they are not from big leagues, and most years they do not qualify for the group stage. I would assign them to the Europa League playoff round (there will be ample room for them when I change the CL qualification). So in review, the access list: Leagues 1-3: 4 teams Leagues 4-6: 3 teams Leagues 7-9: 2 teams Leagues 10-54 (excluding Liechtenstein): 1 team Automatic Group Stage Participants (26): CL/EL winner Champions (1-12) Runners up (1-6) 3rd place (1-4) 4th place (1-3) Qualifying (46 teams fighting for 6 spots): Playoff Round (6 losers drop into EL group stage): Champions (13) 3rd place (5-6) 9 winners from previous round 3rd Qualifying Round (9 losers drop into EL playoff round): Champions (14-16) Runners up (7-9) 12 winners from previous round 2nd Qualifying Round (losers are out of Europe): Champions (17-27) 13 winners from previous round 1st Qualifying Round (losers are out of Europe): Champions (28-54, excluding Liechtenstein) The Europa League qualification will remain roughly the same. The key point in this is that teams from the top four leagues do NOT have to go through qualifying, guaranteeing TV companies big teams.
The Europa League would keep the same format, but the access list would be changed slightly due to the runners up from leagues 10-15 in the playoff round: Leagues 1-9: 3 teams Leagues 10-15: 4 teams Leagues 16-37: 3 teams League 38 (Liechtenstein): 1 team Leagues 39-51: 3 teams Leagues 52-53: 2 teams League 54: 1 team Automatic Group Stage Participants (28): Cup winners (1-12) 3rd (7) 4th (4-6) 5th (1-3) 6th (1-3) 6 CL Playoff Round Losers 20 winners from previous round Qualifying (149 teams for 20 spots): Playoff Round: 9 CL 3rd Qualifying Round Losers Runners up (10-15) 25 winners from previous round 3rd Qualifying Round: Cup winners (13-17) 3rd (8-15) 4th (7-9) 5th (4-6) 31 winners from previous round 2nd Qualifying Round Cup winners (18-19) 2nd (16-17) 4th (10-12) 55 winners from previous round 1st Qualifying Round Cup winners (20-54) 2nd (18-53) 3rd (16-51) 4th (13-15) The advantage to these formats is that in both the CL and the EL, NO teams from the top 3 leagues have to go through qualifying (and no teams from the 4th best league have to go through CL qualifying).
You talk about advantage...compared to what? There, in your opinion, then must be a disadvantage too. Being..?