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This years' winners of the Carabao Cup don't go into the Europa League for the 2021/22 season. Instead they enter UEFA's new second-tier European competition - Uefa Europa Conference League (UECL). Basically it's a competition for those teams not good enough to get into the Europa.
Here's a couple of links explaining the format and qualification criteria -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54133192
https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaconf...7f89e-1000--europa-conference-league-lowdown/
The Carabao Cup winners have to enter at the play off stage just to get into the group stage.
From what I can see it's a competition to avoid at all costs. And it will be played on Thursday nights.
Even then, it depends whether the club want the midweek matchday revenues. You could argue that you have a great chance of blooding the youngsters in the conference league and can keep the 1st team fresh for the weekends.
The match day revenues might still be required by the club. I'm not sure we can be that elitist to turn down that revenue stream.
Who goes in if City win the cup? I assume a league place, which of course could also be us :-)