The format of the Champions League is ready to endure drastic adjustments, with UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin saying in March that from the beginning of the 2024/25 season, 36 groups will compete in Europe’s elite membership competitors.
Taking the whole variety of groups from 32 to 36 within the Champions League, the largest change will see a metamorphosis from the standard group stage to a single league part that features all collaborating groups.
Every group will play eight matches, half at residence and half away, with all eight going down over a ten-week interval.
With these additional groups and additional video games, the brand new Champions League format may have 189 matches as a substitute of 125.
The highest eight sides within the league will qualify mechanically for the knockout stage, whereas groups ending ninth to twenty fourth will compete in a two-legged play-off to safe their path to the final 16 of the competitors.
The revamped competitors additionally means it is doubtless a fifth Premier League membership will compete within the Champions League, because of the additional 4 locations being added to the competitors throughout Europe.
UEFA has introduced two of the 4 slots will go to the nations whose golf equipment obtain one of the best collective efficiency in Europe within the season earlier than. For instance, if the brand new guidelines had utilized for this marketing campaign, the 2 additional locations would have gone to golf equipment from England and the Netherlands.
Certainly, in 4 of the previous 5 campaigns, a group within the Premier League would have acquired one of many further slots.
One of many different slots will go to the membership ranked third within the championship of the fifth-placed nation within the UEFA nationwide affiliation rating (this could be France primarily based on present standings).
The ultimate additional spot will go to a home champion by extending from 4 to 5 the variety of golf equipment qualifying by way of the so-called “Champions Path”.
Different adjustments embody golf equipment from the identical nation having the opportunity of dealing with one another within the final 16 and even play-off spots, somewhat than the present quarter-final stipulation.
Related adjustments are afoot in each the Europa League and Europa Convention League, with league phases set to be carried out in every. Golf equipment within the Europa League will play eight matches, whereas there will likely be solely six matches within the Europa Convention League league part.
Each competitions will begin with 36 groups.
