 Complete the following phrase:  An exception to the usual European qualification system happened in 2005, after Liverpool won the Champions League the year before, but did not finish in a Champions League qualification place in the Premier League that season. UEFA gave special dispensation for Liverpool to enter the Champions League, giving England five qualifiers. UEFA subsequently ruled that the defending champions qualify for the competition the following year regardless of their domestic league placing. However, for those leagues with four entrants in the Champions League, this meant that, if the Champions League winner fell outside of its domestic leagues top four, it would qualify at the expense of the fourth-placed team in the league. Until 201516, no association could have more than four entrants in the Champions League. In May 2012, Tottenham Hotspur finished fourth in the 201112 Premier League, two places ahead of Chelsea, but failed to qualify for the 201213 Champions League, after Chelsea won the 