UEFA announced that Europe’s most important club tournament will undergo significant changes starting next season. Among other things, more teams will enter and there will be no more group stage.
Through its social networks, the UEFA announced this Monday a historic modification for the entire format of the Champions League. The European continental club competition will no longer be as we know it: it will have from 32 to 36 teams and the group stage will be eliminated. Instead, it will be replaced by “Swiss system.”
He UEFA Executive Committee announced that the Champions League 2024/25 It will be played from September with a unique league system in which the 36 teams will participate together, although with differences.
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Each team will play 8 games in total (four at home and four away) and they will be defined through a draw (two teams from each of the four pots). In this first phase, unlike the current one, there will be no back and forth, nor will everyone face each other.
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Thence, the first eight classified teams from the league phase they would go directly to round of 16. While from 9th to 24th must pass an extra round. Teams that finish 25th place or lower will be eliminated and will not be able to continue competing in the UEFA Europa League.
The clubs that finished between 9th and 17th will be seeded in the draw, and will face those that finished between 18th and 24th in the league phase. The winners of that tie will advance to the round of 16 , where the eight best teams wait.
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From there it will be more natural: round of 16 and quarterfinals, plus semifinal, will be drawn and they will play round trip.
The parties of the Champions League and of the Europa League will be held between September and January, while those of the Europa Conference League They will be played between September and December. Each of the three club competitions of the UEFA It will have an exclusive week of matches, since the other two competitions will not be scheduled in that week.
Source: Ambito
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