Will Arsenal qualify for Champions League if Liverpool win? 2022-23 European places in Premier League explained

For the third time in the last five seasons, Liverpool are in the final of the UEFA Champions League, a run of which most clubs around the world would be envious.

But there will be some fans in England who will be less interested in whether Liverpool can secure a seventh European crown of their own, and more eager to understand whether a Liverpool victory in the tournament has a potential carryover benefit for their own club.

Thanks to UEFA's qualification configuration, the Champions League winner automatically qualifies for the following year's tournament no matter its domestic table finish. This has left some wondering, if Liverpool win the Champions League, do the European qualification berths in England get shuffled around?

Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League table, the first team outside the automatic Champions League qualification places. If Liverpool wins the Champions League and occupies the automatic qualification spot given to the competition's winner, could the Gunners be elevated to a Champions League berth?

The Sporting News breaks down how it all works ahead of the May 28 final.

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The number of Champions League places for each European domestic league is determined by UEFA's "country coefficients", which are calculated based on the relative strength of each nation's league, largely taking into account that league's recent finishes in Champions League action.

Given the recent dominance of Premier League clubs in the Champions League, England is the top-ranked nation in the UEFA coefficient rankings, followed by Spain, Italy, and Germany. Those four nations gain four direct spots in the Champions League group stage for the top four