jaysea67
Erik Edman
I should clarify. The Scottish champions are entitled to a place in the 3rd qualifying round of next season's CL. In your scenario, if Rangers win this year's EL and the Scottish league, they would take the EL winner's spot in next season's CL group stage. There would then be a vacancy in the CL 3rd qualifying round. The vacancy would be filled by the champions of the highest ranked country (Czechia I think) that would normally have started in the 2nd qualifying round. So, the Czech champions would instead begin in the 3rd qualifying round.That's kind of weird. Only Spain is ranked higher in nation co-efficients. Villareal and Granada, ranked well below us, remain in the last 16, with decent chances of advancing.
From England, ManU and Arsenal are in the final 16 and above us in rankings. So it's unlikely we'd be the club to advance on the quoted qualification procedure.