Impossible mission?! The scenario by which Rapid catches Europe after eliminating from the cup

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Article by Romeo Ene – published on Thursday, April 24, 2025, 08:08 / Updated Thursday, April 24, 2025 08:12

The winner of the Betano Romanian Cup evolves in the first preliminary round of the Europa League, a chance that does not exist in the championship, where the 2 and 3 places go to the preliminaries Conference League, apart from the winner, which ensures the presence in the Champions League preliminaries.

The elimination from the Romanian Cup is synonymous, largely, with the failure of the objective this season: the qualification in the European Cups.

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Goodbye, Europe?! How to qualify the rapid after removing from the cup

The Cup represented the shortest road to the European Cups, but the goal from the extensions scored by Sergiu Buș (32 years old) has shown all the calculations of the Giulesti.

Following the failure, Marius Șumudică announced his resignation in front of the supporters. Rapid It is in 6th place in the play-off, the last one, with 28 points.

How distance from CFR Clujoccupying the 3rd place, is quite large (6 points), with 5 stages before the end of the season, Rapid hopes at Conference League in the next scenario, according to Fanatik.

Finish on the 4th or 5th place.
Hermannstadt wins the Betano Romanian Cup, but has no right to participate in European cups due to the fact that they are in the insolvency procedure.
Sepsi and Lighthouse (the only clubs that have applied for the Play-out Europe license) do not finish on the first four places. A automatically there is no league league barrage, and places 3 and 4 or 5 in the Play-off go to Conference League.
If Rapid ends on 5, Dinamo should be in the first 4. Zeljko Kopic's band is insolvent and has no right to participate in European cups.
If the CFR wins the cup and finishes in the first 3, the Transylvanians go to the Europa League because they have won the Cup, and Conference League is the lower competition. Therefore, a European place in Superliga would be available.
If Sepsi/Lighthouse finishes in the first 4 teams in the play-out, a dam could play for qualifying in the Conference League preliminaries. In this case, instead of Hermannstadt, the position of the Europa League reserved for the winner of the Betano Romanian Cup will be assigned to the best ranked team in Superliga, not the finalist. And the 5th place would go to Conference League.