Celtic won the Premiership title after a thriller against Hearts, with the Celts securing their ticket to the playoffs of the next Champions League, where they will be seeded.
This development did not favor AEK, which consequently dropped to the unseeded teams and now needs to benefit from an elimination in an earlier qualifying round to rise back into the top five.
According to Football Meets Data, AEK is more likely to be unseeded along with the pairs of Celje and Omonia, as well as LASK Linz and Viking - with the Norwegians being the only certainties.
Celtic is the only certainty for the seeded teams, with Red Star, Dinamo Zagreb, Slovan Bratislava, and Lech Poznań being the most likely others.
This applies to the champions' path, as in the non-champions' path, FMD expects Lyon and Bodø/Glimt to be among the seeded teams, and Olympiacos and Fenerbahçe among the unseeded teams. Of course, all four teams must have secured at least one qualification to reach that stage.
