New Champions League format

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56573883

A new Champions League format, featuring a 10-match first phase from 2024, is expected to be agreed by Uefa on Wednesday.

The proposal, which has been under discussion for almost two years, will be finalised on Tuesday and then signed off by Uefa's executive committee.

Under the new format, the current group phase will be scrapped.

In its place, the number of qualifiers will be expanded from 32 to 36, with space for two 'wild card' entries.

The wild cards will be reserved for clubs with the highest Uefa co-efficient - points used to rank clubs based on past European success - who have not qualified for the competition through their league position.

If the format was being used now, based on the current table it would mean Liverpool would gain a Champions League spot despite being seventh in the Premier League.

There has been opposition to the plans, in particular from the European Leagues organisation, who said it would create a "de facto closed shop".

However, Uefa officials and representatives from the European Club Association have backed the new arrangement, which former Manchester United keeper and current Ajax chief executive Edwin van der Sar is credited with suggesting.

Under the new format, each team will play 10 matches against opponents varying in strength, with the results forming an overall league table.

Those in the highest eight positions will move on to the knockout phase, with those from ninth to 24th going into a play-off round.

The new format will cause a problem for the English game and in particular the EFL Cup as the additional fixtures will need the mid-week slots usually allocated to the secondary cup competition.

Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish previously said the 36-team Champions League would have "a devastating effect" on the English game.

 

A carve up for the big.clubs.

Until fans stop watching, it will continue.

7th place in a 20 team league getting in the Champions League

 

My view is that as a previous winner we should be in it every year as Scotland's sole representative irrespective of where we finish in the league.

 

Liverpool have now signed up to a new breakaway league from the new uefa format

 

UEFA and FIFA have said that EVERY club that joins the new Super League will be banned from ALL UEFA competitions and their players will also be banned from their national teams.
The major leagues have agreed with this meaning all the big clubs will have only one competition they will be able to play in.

 

Yes noticed that mate posted it in the super league thread , apparently the Real Madrid president will be the chairman of its created

 

Didnt know was thread when i posted this.
Really hope UEFA and FIFA stick to their guns.

 

Well Sevco are not an Elite club having been founded in 2012.

 

@Marty McFly can you jump in the Delorean and confirm this mate?

EDIT; he beat me with the edit

 

I'm not wasting good plutonium on they *

 

The whole ‘elite club’ thing is just an insurance guarantee for rich clubs that never win anything.... like Spurs

The 4 extra slots is just crumbs to throw at clubs like ours in the hope it gives that extra chance.

I hope fifa, uefa, epl, SFA.... whole fkkn lot of them self combust.

 

Dont think the SFA have had much to do with this to be fair to them....

 

Also anyone saying “football is dead” isn’t a football fan.
Football will carry on without these greedy * who will play each other 4 times a year for nothing but money.
The rest of the world will carry on and so will football as it is now, just with slightly less money and hopefully more morals.

 

Why?

 

What part are you referring to? The reform or the clubs pulling out of ECA

 

If the 2024 Champions League reforms kicked in next season, and the European Super League clubs are banned, this is what the group stage could look like (if I have understood the reforms):

Automatic qualification:

Sevilla
Villarreal
Real Betis
Real Sociedad
Leicester City
West Ham United
Everton
Leeds United
Bayern München
RB Leipzig
Wolfsburg
Eintracht Frankfurt
Borussia Dortmund
Atalanta
Napoli
Lazio
Roma
Lille
Paris Saint-Germain
Monaco
Sporting CP
Porto
Zenit
Club Brugge
Dynamo Kyiv
Shakhtar Donetsk
Ajax
RB Salzburg

Champions path qualification (with the highest-ranked clubs progressing):

Beşiktaş
Dinamo Zagreb
Slavia Praha
Olympiacos

League path qualification (with the highest-ranked clubs progressing):

Olympique Lyonnais
Benfica
Celtic
Lokomotiv Moskva

It looks much more exciting to me in terms of the clubs involved, but the association team allocation and format still heavily favours the top five leagues (and perhaps now needlessly so).

 

Why is UEFA pushing through reforms that pander to the twelve European Super League clubs?

 

They always have