Lets pretend there was a chance of Uefa following through on their threat to ban the three superleague clubs. When would they need to do this by?
The draw for the preliminary rounds is made 8th June, then qualifying games themselves played on 22nd. Surely, the teams participating would need to be known by this point at the latest?
Or can they go ahead with qualifying right up until the competiton proper when the top teams come in, and if they were say hypothetically banned, replace them with either next best placed teams feom their leagues, or would it be best placed qualifying teams from all leagues?
Not that I think for one second it would happen, just really looking at a hypothetical timeline.