Changes have been made to the Europa League which will make it more difficult for Scottish teams to reach the league phase.
The change affects the final qualifying round and will see that stage split into two sections - champions and non-champions. Scotland's two representatives - the Premiership's runners-up and Scottish Cup winners - will be in the latter.
It means any Scottish club who reaches the play-off stage would not be drawn against any team dropping down from Champions League qualifying.
On top of that, our clubs' coefficients have dropped so low they would likey be unseeded.
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This season, it would have seen them avoid the likes of Iberia 1999, Kairat Almaty or Ararat - and be drawn against the likes of Anderlecht, Benfica or Viktoria Plzen.
The consolation would be that having reached the Europa League play-off, you would be guaranteed Conference League football.
Of course, if Celtic, Rangers, Hearts or another team were champions of Scotland and fell into the UEL play-off, they would be seeded AND shielded from the top-ranked teams in the non-champions path.
After Scotland's co-efficient plummeted, it has shown no signs of recovering with Celtic and Hearts the only teams left competing, in the Europa League and Conference League respectively.
Rangers crashed out out both the UEL and UECL, while Hibs and Motherwell both reached the play-off stage of the latter.
