The
UEFA Cup was substituted with Europa League a few years back. In much
earlier days Europe had 2 lower tier competitions - UEFA Cup and Cup
Winners Cup. The Cup Winners Cup merged with UEFA Cup, before the latter
was changed to Europa League.
For
any teams that participate in the Champions League, the teams who are
eliminated early in the Group Stage may stand a chance to be in the
Europa League. The Europa League victor will book a seat in the
Champions League the next year.
The
Europa League is still being viewed as lower level competition
eventhough UEFA made an effort to do a rebranding and assign it points
identical to the Champions League. Imagine it as the third place in FIFA
World Cup tournament, which people generally do not care about.
Furthermore the financial side of it does not appeal to the clubs from
the tier 1 leagues in Europe.
As
one example of how large the gap in reward money may just be, the
winner of the Europa League with a perfect record from the Group Stage
gets merely 25% more in reward money than any team that simply took part
in the Champions League first Group Stage. If the team could not
advance towards second round of Champions League, but qualified for the
Europa League as a result of third position in the Champions League
Group Stage, there's further prize money to be taken into account.
To
paint a clearer picture, in case a team scored 2 points under the
perfect score in the Group Stage, but went on to win the Europa League,
the prize money that is granted to this team is fewer than any team that
participated in the first Group Stage of the Champions League no matter
how their results are. From the examples you can see just how the two
tournaments are in reality being valued.
In
normal cases the two teams that came first and second would be
qualified in to the higher level competition next season. The Europa
League just isn't as blessed, as being the first runner-up will not
secure Champions League seat for the following year.
To
cover their monetary interests, many top level teams in Europe choose
to get knocked out of the Europa League earlier than to carry on with
the challenging timetable of it. Teams from Spain could possibly be the
exclusion in this situation because of the domination on the domestic
competitions by the 2 largest clubs there.
Competitions
such as the Europa League doesn't help the situation in which the clubs
from the tier 1 soccer countries are playing too many matches yearly.
Lesser clubs in Europe are struggling to keep up with the greater teams
and there is no hope of even maintaining the difference.
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