"Does the Champions League winner qualify automatically?"

The UEFA Champions League

the Champions League is the follow-up competition to the earlier European Cup, in which the champions individual European leagues competed against each other and the European Cup winners of the national champions determined.

• The Champions League was introduced by the European football association UEFA for the 1992/93 season with a few changes compared to the European Champions Cup, which is based primarily on economic interests lay. Unlike the Champions League, the European Champion's Cup was played in the knockout system with a return leg from the start. For the big European clubs that meant that if things went unfortunate for them, they would Eliminate in the first round and no longer earn money in an international competition could.
• Especially in the interests of the powerful clubs, a group stage like them was already set up in the last year of the 1991/92 European Cup known from world and European championships is introduced, so that several games and thus certain income are guaranteed for each club was. From the following year, the competition was then called the UEFA Champions League.
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Is automatically qualified: The winner of the previous year

Over the years some changes have been made in the Champions League, both in terms of the mode of competition and the number of participants and qualifications. For example, at times there were two group phases, so that the clubs that survived the first group phase had, were able to play several games again, only then did it go into the quarter-finals Knockout games 

• Since the 2003/2004 season, the Champions League has started with a group stage, after which the knockout matches begin with the round of 16. Both the group and the knockout games take place both first and second legs. An exception is the final, only one is played here and the winner is determined by penalty shoot-out if necessary.


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• The number of possible participants per league was expanded to four for the 1999/2000 season. In the first few years of the new competition, on the other hand, only the national champions were qualified; from the 1997/98 season onwards, the runners-up from the strong European leagues could also take part.
• To determine which European league gets how many starting places, UEFA maintains a ranking known as the UEFA five-year rating or the UEFA coefficient. This ranking also defines which leagues and how many participants are allowed to participate in the Europa League, the former UEFA Cup. The better a league is placed in the ranking, the more places it has in the champions League too, for weak leagues that means that even the national champions are not automatic are qualified.
• For example, for the first three countries on the list, the rules stipulate that both the champions and the runners-up and the Third-placed players in the national leagues are allowed to take part in the Champions League, while fourth-placed players can take part in several qualifying rounds to qualify. In these qualifying rounds there is also the opportunity for the champions from the weaker leagues to gain the right to participate.
• But is the Champions League still a Champions League if even fourth-placed players are allowed to play? You can argue about this and some people think that you can also let the fifth, seventh or tenth play along. But that is at least theoretically possible anyway, namely when a team in the league only ranks fifth, seventh or tenth place, but the big pot wins, because the winner of the previous year is always automatic qualified.

So UEFA regulates its most important club competition very precisely.