which English teams qualify for uefa europa cup?
There are essentially seven places in European football
available for the EPL. Top four get the Champions League, fifth
gets the Europa League and the other two Europa League places go to
the winners of the two domestic cups (League Cup and FA Cup)
The "top six" do not automatically get European football. Lets
assume that 1-4 qualify for the CL from their league position only
(i.e. not as a result of winning it that season) and fifth place
qualifies for the Europa League in the same way. If fifteenth in
the League wins the FA Cup and say even a team from the
Championship wins the League Cup then those are the teams that
qualify. If the teams that finish in fifth and sixth have won both
the cups, then a place in the Europa League (that vacated by fifth)
goes to seventh. In simple terms, three teams qualify. Which teams
they are depends on winners of the domestic cups. This season
Chelsea won the FA Cup and have finished sixth, therefore they,
Liverpool (who won the League Cup) and fifth place (whoever that
may end up being) will qualify. Had Chelsea finished fifth, the
sixth place teams takes their Europa League place. There is
however, no 6th place Europa League qualifying spot.