Who can win race for Uefa Champions League and Europa League qualifications.

Leicester, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolves, Sheffield United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Burnley are all in the running for Europe.

Following Manchester City’s European ban being lifted, ZSB looks at the most ask questions. What does it mean for Premier League teams in the running for Europe? How many teams will qualify and who can qualify?

For Champions League qualification:

Two teams have already booked their place in European competitions or their qualifying rounds – Liverpool as Premier League winners and Manchester City, who confirmed their status as runners-up with the win at Brighton at the weekend, but there is still plenty of competition for places.

With City reinstated back into European competitions, after the team was initially ban from Europe competition for two-years by Uefa, the top four teams in the Premier League will qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.

Winning the Champions League or Europa League also guarantees a place in the group stages, with Liverpool and Chelsea having done so last season.

Despite mixed results in the first legs of their knockout ties, Chelsea, in the champions league, Manchester United and Wolves, in the Europa league, are still in the hunt in those competitions.

Holders Liverpool were knocked out of the Champions League by Atletico Madrid just before the suspension of football, but have already booked their place in next season’s competition as Premier League champions.

There are three ways to qualify for the Europa League:

1— the fifth position team on the table qualify directly to the group stage of the Europa league.

2— win the fa cup and qualify directly to the Europa league group stage.

3— win the carabao cup and qualify for the second qualifying stage of the Europa league.

If the winners of the FA Cup and Carabao Cup finish fifth or higher in the Premier League, their Europa League spots go to the next-highest ranked team not qualified for UEFA competitions in the Premier League.

For example, last season, Manchester City won both cups and the Premier League.

Therefore, their spot in the group stage from the FA Cup victory was given to Manchester United – who finished in sixth – and seventh-placed Wolves entered into the second qualifying round.

Manchester City’s Carabao Cup win this term is good news for the European-football chasers.

Because City are guaranteed to finish as Premier League runners-up, their place in the second qualifying round of the Europa League transfers to the next highest-placed side, in this case in sixth place.

The FA Cup is down to the final four – City, Chelsea, United and Arsenal – and fans of European hopefuls should follow the action there closely, too.

Should City or a team in the top five also win the FA Cup, the Europa League second-round qualifying spot will drop to the team who finishes seventh.

Can a team gain European qualification if finishing in eighth?

No. Seven is the maximum any country can have in European competition, unless a team qualifies by winning the FA Cup or a European competition.

So this season, it will not be possible to qualify for Europe by league position any lower than seventh even if Manchester United or Wolves win the Europa League and finish fifth.

Both the Uefa Champions League and Europa league will end in a tournament style in Lisbon next month.