UEFA Champions League New Format,

After months of hypothesis, the UEFA lastly introduced their new revamped format for the Champions League, which will likely be efficient from the 2924-25 season. This can massively alter the present format and guarantee larger participation for golf equipment throughout the continent. UEFA launched a video on their official X(previously Twitter) account that explains all the small print in regards to the new format. Within the video, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin mentioned, “I’m actually happy that it was a unanimous resolution of the UEFA Government Committee, with the European Membership Affiliation, European Leagues and nationwide associations all agreeing with the proposal made. One other proof that European soccer is extra united than ever.”

This format had been years within the making, however its implementation was solely accelerated after the European Tremendous League fiasco in April 2021. So, what’s the brand new format, and the way it will have an effect on the event?

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UEFA Champions League’s new format 

Beneath the brand new format, the variety of groups will improve from 32 to 36. Nonetheless, not like the earlier model, the place groups had been divided into eight teams of 4, the brand new format can have 4 teams of 9 groups.

One other characteristic of the present model was that groups within the group stage performed in opposition to three of its different group members in a double-round-robin format. Nonetheless, from the 2024-25 season, every staff will play eight video games, 4 dwelling and 4 away. Additionally, all these eight video games will likely be in opposition to eight completely different groups, permitting for extra video games between numerous groups.

The motto of this format is to make sure that there will be quite a lot of massive video games within the group stage itself, which is able to garner large curiosity within the competitors from the onset.

An thrilling new period for European membership soccer awaits 🤩

Right here’s how the #UCL will look from 2024/25 👇 pic.twitter.com/mEffFOpX2O

— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) March 4, 2024

One other thrilling facet of that is that the eight video games that any staff will play will likely be in opposition to two groups from every group (one dwelling and one away), one thing not potential within the present format. Regardless of the modified model, all of the group stage video games will likely be performed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays like the present one.

After every staff has performed their video games, the highest eight groups will qualify for the spherical of 16. Nonetheless, groups positioned between ninth and twenty fourth will play a double-legged tie in opposition to one different. These eight groups that triumph right here will be a part of the highest eight groups in spherical 16. From there on, the Champions League will comply with the present format.

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Champions League New Format: Impact on league 

With the rise within the variety of groups, UEFA has additionally introduced how coefficient rankings of leagues will massively alter the variety of spots a league has within the new format. In accordance with two of the 4 extra spots, they’ll go to the 2 leagues which have topped the UEFA coefficient rankings. One other spot will go to the third-ranked staff from the fifth-best league on the coefficient rankings.

In accordance with UEFA web site the Slot are as follows:

• Slot one: This place will go to the membership ranked third within the championship of the affiliation in fifth place within the entry checklist, which is set by the UEFA affiliation membership coefficient rating.
• Slot two: This place will likely be awarded to a home champion by extending from 4 to 5 the variety of golf equipment qualifying through the Champions path of the competitors’s qualifying course of, which is able to consist of 4 qualifying rounds.
• Slots three and 4: These locations will go to the associations with one of the best collective efficiency by their golf equipment within the earlier season (i.e. the affiliation membership coefficient of the earlier season, which relies on the entire variety of membership coefficient factors obtained by every membership from an affiliation divided by the variety of taking part golf equipment from that affiliation). These two associations will every earn one automated place within the league section (‘European Efficiency Spot’) for the membership ranked next-best of their home league behind these golf equipment which have already certified straight for the league section.