As football goes through a severe financial crisis, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, Europe’s biggest clubs are on track to get what they wanted: a new league format champions, the most prestigious of European competitions, which, according to their projections, should bring them more money. UEFA, the body that rules football on the Old Continent, should take note of this development in March, with the new version of the competition to be put in place in 2024.
According to The team, which unveils the contours of this future Champions League on Wednesday, it will be a question of confronting, at first, 36 teams, instead of the 32 which are currently qualified for the group stage.
This first round, with several pools, will disappear: all the teams should be in the same “championship”. However, not all 36 clubs will face each other: each qualifying team will play ten games, five at home and five away, compared to six currently in the group stage. There will be no more round-trip matches in this first phase of the competition.
Round-trip dams
At the end of these ten meetings, which should last until January, the first eight in the standings will advance to the round of 16. Eight other tickets will be issued via a round-trip jump-off between the ranked teams of the 9e at the 24e square. The last twelve as well as the formations eliminated during the play-offs will not be transferred to the Europa League.
To access this new Champions League, it will be necessary to have finished in the lead, or at least in the first places, of his national championship. A system of “hats” will remain in force, with a distribution of teams close to that which currently exists.
The national champions from the previous season will constitute hat 1, and the other three hats will be determined according to the UEFA coefficient of each qualifying team. According to The team, a team in hat 1 will face two other seeded clubs, three formations in hat 2, three in hat 3, and two in hat 4.
