The Europa League will also be played according to the “Swiss system”.

Reform is the answer of UEFA on the idea of ​​the Super League

Ceferin understands that as long as the fans are against the Super League, there will be no Super League. And the protests in England showed that the English at least did not like the idea of ​​​​creating a closed league. Real Madrid and Barcelona are still without money and Juventus abandons the project. This could be the answer to a one-year disqualification of the Turin club from European competitions, although more could have been settled, given the machinations of the club’s managers, suspended from work for many years.

This season’s Champions League has started in a fascinating way: the second round is one of the best in recent years, but at the same time the individual glory hunters do not like the composition of the groups. There are no Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham. No Ajax, no Juve. Many more modest but wealthy clubs also failed to qualify for the groups. IN of UEFA They fear for their income, because the box office is usually brought in by the central matches and the richest clubs.

They even floated the bait to divide it into three divisions: Super League, Europa League and Candidates League. They are planning promotions and relegations in class, which means guaranteed places for a significant number of participants and a tournament all but closed. If you select participants based on rating of UEFA, then clubs like Chelsea and Juventus guarantee their position in the Super League. But the reaction of the fans was once again negative.

Therefore inside of UEFA issued a denial. Standard practice: Cast a fishing rod and watch the reaction. Since the opinion was negative, they immediately lied by saying that it was the first time they had heard of the reform. But from 2024 many things will change, and not just in the Champions League, which now has four more participants. They will give two places to the fifth clubs of the elite leagues and almost certainly one of the tickets will go to them nuclear submarine. The format of the Super Bowl will also change. of UEFAcan add new members.

From Champions League Don’t get eliminated in someone else’s playoffs

This is the most important difference, besides the “Swiss system”, which has already been talked about more than once. Now there will no longer be relegation in lower ranking tournaments, as happened with the third teams in the groups Champions League. The two main championships will each have 36 participants per group. But next season’s system is unusual. Divided into four urns of nine clubs. And then the participants will play with two teams from each list, for a total of eight games, but not with clubs from their own league.

There will be more matches between elite teams, but each will not play against each other. It is also important that eight different opponents all meet once, at home or away. We immediately see the downside that the lottery now has too much impact. It’s one thing to get the most modest from the first basket, it’s another to run into two favorites. The difference in the strength of the opponents will be great; there are enough complaints about the influence of the list of opponents on the team’s position in the overall standings.

The eight best teams after eight rounds will go to the Champions League playoffs. The teams that rank from 9th to 24th will be divided into “seeded” and “unseeded”, therefore into pairs. This will result in a playoff round, with eight teams out of sixteen clubs advancing further. Whoever loses in the round of 16 and finishes below twenty-fifth is simply eliminated. This means that the price of each result is growing and in the last rounds we will hardly see meaningless matches.

What happens in the event of a tie on points? How can the results of a giant against strong opponents compare if another rich club played against a clearly weaker opponent? Now the groups are unequal in composition, there is also an injustice, but in the future the goal difference will be too important, because you will not find any matches between neighbors in the overall Champions League standings. They might end up counting cards, which would be a stupid exercise.

The leaders will not meet until the final

A club coming from the Champions League will no longer be able to win the Europa League. And in the Conference League, 36 teams will also play, but the results of only six games will be in one table. And then everything is standard: the top eight will go to the playoffs, the remaining sixteen teams will compete with each other for another eight places in knockout matches. The total number of participants in the European Cups will increase in of UEFA trying to please more federations by giving them the chance to make money.

Another very important and interesting news is that the place in the general classification will influence the team’s path in the usual 16-team playoff round. Let’s say Manchester City won the overall group of 36 clubs and Bayern finished second in the Champions League table. In this case, these teams are sent to different parts of the bracket and will not face each other until the final. Favorites are separated so that there is no uneven distribution of participants between parts of the grid.

In the Champions League spring, one side of the playoffs was noticeably more representative than the other. Top all-star teams are eliminated so quickly that it impacts profits of UEFA. Therefore, Ceferin asked to draw up a scheme in which the most successful teams in the general classification would not face each other right away. However, when there are 8 matches, and only four at home, but all with different opponents, then the sensations will be much more. It is impossible to prepare well.

Sarri, criticizing the workload due to Lazio’s calendar, joked that on the morning of the match he doesn’t look at the name of the opponent, there are many. Well, there definitely won’t be fewer games. Even in the Europa League it is expected to play eight rounds instead of the usual six. The overall aim of the changes is to pit elite clubs against each other more often. From the fourth basket everyone will have two different opponents and will play two games, just like now. But there will be six elite fights instead of four.