UEFA Champions League changes

[blueparrot]

Honest question, then, as I don't know. How will the league work? Who determines, and how, who plays who and at which venues?

I'm assuming the teams will be seeded probably into 5 groups instead of the current 4 and you are drawn against 2 from each group. one home one away.

 

[Legacyfan1986]

Baggashite

 

[blueparrot]

Also do the the clubs involved get an uplift in prize money to offset lost gate/food/corporate and merchandise revenue?

That's why I can't see the idea getting very far.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I'm assuming the teams will be seeded probably into 5 groups instead of the current 4 and you are drawn against 2 from each group. one home one away.

Christ, the live draw for that could go on for weeks.

Maybe 6 groups of 4 as there are 24 teams in it, with each group avoiding the other teams in it. Have they not published how this thing will work? Strange if they haven't.

 

[Legacyfan1986]

Christ, the live draw for that could go on for weeks.

Maybe 6 groups of 4 as there are 24 teams in it, with each group avoiding the other teams in it. Have they not published how this thing will work? Strange if they haven't.

I can see a live draw with more sponsorship crap thrown in. Group A is complete and now a Pepsi ad, group B Heineken etc. Any way to get revenue and bore the pants off people while they heat/chill certain balls

 

[DMA's]

So long as qualification for European competitions is done on sporting merit and not by historical success I don’t really care what they do tbh

 

[Manchester_lalala]

The only City in Europe that could probably handle the volume of people for a week of football is London. I actually like the idea as having a week in European football watching City would be brilliant, but it just would a ball ache with flights/hotels. Let’s say you lose the semis, you’d probably have to fulfil are you trip as flights/hotels are already booked past the final.

 

[blueparrot]

Christ, the live draw for that could go on for weeks.

Maybe 6 groups of 4 as there are 24 teams in it, with each group avoiding the other teams in it. Have they not published how this thing will work? Strange if they haven't.

As far as I know they haven't said exactly how the seedings and draw will work yet.

New format for Champions League post-2024: everything you need to know

The 2024/25 edition of the UEFA Champions League will follow a new format. We explain what will change, what will stay the same, what it means for fans and how it impacts UEFA’s other club competitions.

www.uefa.com

 

[dubblue]

The worst of the new format is the wild card entries,I can live with the rest no matter how bad the ideas are.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I can see a live draw with more sponsorship crap thrown in. Group A is complete and now a Pepsi ad, group B Heineken etc. Any way to get revenue and bore the pants off people while they heat/chill certain balls

If the six groups are based on seeding, or co-efficient, then they don't need a draw for that do they? But they will have to draw which of the teams in each seeded group play which two teams from each of the other groups, and then which home and away? Would take forever. Honest questions, I have no idea how this will work.