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Uefa will announce on Friday whether the Europa League winners will be rewarded with a Champions League qualifying spot in future.

The move would be designed to boost interest in Europe's secondary club tournament.

The governing body further declared that Berlin's Olympic Stadium will host the Champions League final in 2015.
That year's Europa League decider will be at Warsaw's National Stadium, which staged the opening game of Euro 2012.

"Two beautiful venues for our finals for 2015," said Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino.

Last year, the 2014 Champions League final was awarded to Lisbon and the Europa League final to Turin.

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Richard Buxton just tweeted saying that the offer has been confirmed by UEFA.

Hopefully this will add a bit more competitiveness to the Europa League in the future, as many clubs seen it as more of a nuisance because it causes congestion in their fixture list. Just a pity we didn't actually qualify for next years tournament.

Probably our most likely route back in the champions league league position looks insurmountable especially if spurs keep bale and strengthen their squad which they are trying to do.

Good, been calling for this for years now.

Now they need to do away with the idea of champions league teams dropping into the europa league and they'll have a much more credible competition.

I've been saying this for the last few years myself. I think they really should have done this as soon as they repackaged the old UEFA Cup as 'The Europa League'. They were foolish to this that a namechange and adding a group stage would be enough to reinvent the competition. It added nothing, and instead took away from the prestige that the competition already had by changing its name.

Where we have this situation come the end of a season,where a team (like ourselves for instance) are out of the running for a CL spot, it seems the feeling is the teams would rather not win the last game or two and end up in a Europa League spot - they'd rather not be in Europe at all than playing games on a Thursday and Sunday every week. The introduction of a Champion's League spot for the winners of the competition will suddenly make it a lot more attractive for teams such as ourselves. In a time where competition for the top 4 is so high, it would now be in our best interests to at least qualify for the Europa League, and in addition, to field strong teams with the aim of winning it.

It can only be a good thing for the competition.