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The new format for the UEFA Champions League has been confirmed. After proposing a “Swiss Model”, UEFA has taken on board feedback from member clubs and has finalised a new version of the Champions League.
But what is it? What will it mean for your club? Who is unhappy?
Written by Dan Sheldon, illustrated by Alice Devine.
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Can we please bring back the European cup for only the winners of their respective leagues
The format sounds good and I’m glad they scrapped some of the stupid qualification plans they had but an increase in games is bad
What do players think of more intense games at a higher creating longer term injuries
This is like Euroleague in basketball!!!
The main thing I'm worried about is smaller leagues like belgian, swiss, and austrian leagues not being able to get into the competition, becuase formerly a few nations like that would still get in. Does anyone know if they still get in and also will this format apply to the Europa league and Conference league aswell?
F*CK MODERN FOOTBALL..!!!
Go ahead and make your closed executive superleague, to please your asian, african and american viewers and glory hunters, then the REAL football clubs of europe will make our own league for the people of europe !!
Who an the world thought this was good guy
I am not always open to change, that`s my toxic personality trait and this right here is B.S my friends, too many matches.
How does getting more teams from only the big leagues improve the competition? I mean, the smaller leagues, like the eastern European leagues and the Eredivisie or Liga NOS will just be there to play the "qualification rounds". If they want to make people happier, just add teams from other nations, so not only the big team fans enjoy it and having only "big matches". I understand that the point is to have those but not only those.
I'll be missing relegations from european competitons to lower ones 😢
He is Aleksander Čeferin not Aleksandar.
The cancer of football has a name: Alexander Ceferin and Infantino
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This will have a major impact on domestic leagues. Players being overplayed, a lack of rest and a an increase in injuries. I will cancel my Premier league subscription if key players keep getting rested due to the champions league and national games.
Quite frankly too much football makes it boring.
This is so dumb..
The new champions league has a name:
Saudi Arabia Championships
Im done with european football
Swiss model is dumb. You can barely get in the playoffs and knock out the unbeated team
I stopped watching the CL years ago…
Whenever someone cries about expansion it's because they're from one of the top 4 league countries. I see full stadiums in Europa League and Europa Conference for top clubs from the countries that didn't make it to the Champions. What I hate is that it's always the top 4 countries that get more slots. We need clubs from smaller leagues so they can keep improving.
4:21 I burst out laughing to the shamelessness of French League's demands
If it isn't broke, why fix it ? This format is just too complicated
The Champions League has lost all meaning when you have 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams competing. The competition should be only exclusive to the winners of the of the domestic league winners.
There shall be no Leicester City fairytale happening in the Champions League like this.Let Davids play.They can add the CL patch to their shirt.
Wasn't this the same idea that Florentino Perez and Joan Laporta has? Super league? I can see what's going on, they are upset that it wasn't their idea so they are applying it now as the new champions league lol.
UEFA and FIFA is destroying the very essence of football. It's just about the money right now. They killed the emotion. The meaning football had.
I just watched football atmosphere in Argentina. It's incredible. When I compare it to top European clubs it's laughable. It's like watching new year day concert from Vienna.
Rich people in suits eating sushi and drinking fine French wine in their luxury boxes. This is what they want. And Arab oil money.
I was a huge football fan, watched Serie A, Premier league, La Liga, Champions league in the past but I completely stopped watching it in the last few years. Don't like it anymore.
the most barbaric move is to not give direct access to almost all domestic winners. instead the piramid gets built slowly to benefit the richest
A league based format for the Champions "League" is the obvious choice. Would inherently make it more fair. However they need to sort out best qualifications routes, maybe adopt models from other sports? Polls anyone?
so all this is just for more money.
The European cup was infinitely better. When only Champions could enter it simply meant that the competition had a higher level of quality as you are at least playing against the very best from each country on the UEFA cup was an incredible strong competition which means you could still get quality competition there every tournament out of high-quality level a tournament feeling strong to use the champions league is an absolute joke compared to that
Always ruining these great competitions!!
I have almost always been EUFA anti fan? whatever I dont like Europe lol but with these changes I can tell you 100% I will be following the EUFA champions for the first time and probably onwards. Good changes tbh.
This is stupid money grab basically
More CL games are good for none PL clubs, more revenues for them to stay relevant.
Football is eventually gonna die cus now everything is about money and not actual football
Mind as well add another league instead of lower spots. You want the best of the best not mediocre ranking teams. Invite the winner of MLS or Liga MX maybe go even lower. Argentine or Brazilian half the European stars left to Saudi Arabia should at least get top 2 of those. Have them be the rest of the world group or place one of each in each group.
This is one of the worst decision wich Fifa took in history.
Why would you change something wich is great?
Fifa = coruption
i might of misunderstood but this just feels like what happens in american sports, it’s crazy how money can just change years and years of history and change something that’s barely been changed since its birth
I like the format for 2 reasons:
1. It provides more opportunities for interesting matchups in the first stage
2. Teams no llonger can get to the knockouts just by getting lucky in the draw, and now place among the entire field.
It doesn't make sense
Yeah it's time to stop watching football, it's getting stupid now. Champions league is for the champions of each league not 3 and 4 place too.
It's all for money. UEFA are ruining football
What is happening to Football?
So can Liverpool play champions league?
What about 23/24
Oh yeah I can't wait for the premier league to be given even MORE teams in the UCL as Belgian teams are forced to go through a qualification phase,because yeah whoever finishes 6th or 7th in the premier league deserves it more than whenever finishes first in Belgium
It's confirmed
Basically teams can give zero f because finishing 24th will still give you a chance to win…talking about getting rewards as a looser lol whole structure is created for big teams while two slots will be given to looser teams from main leagues.Pathetic…and uefa talking that they care about small guys lol…this is worse than superleague at this point.
trash
Just make it the top 5 leagues and let the rest of us get on with it through the Europa and Conference. Its getting to that point anyway. They're just ruining the game.