UEFA Champions League changes
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Brightwell Bros.
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It will give more games between the "big" established teams, which fans do seem to like, and reduces the jeopardy, which clubs seem to like. The early rounds are a real slog, as someone who goes to them, so I'm not desperately attached to the current format, but I really enjoy everything from the QFs onwards as a match going fan.
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Think the appeal to me is,I assume there will be a seeding of sorts ,so a chance we will see different teams playing each other, but also the league will be ever changing so there will be more jeopardy in finishing top 8 and a couple of bad results may end up with some big teams missing out on the knockouts or at least ending up in a play off game.
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Four sets of football fans in one city for a week. What could go wrong.
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Yes, sure. No doubt we will have to play Liverpool, Real, Atletico, Bayern, PSG, United, Milan, Juventus, Dortmund and Barcelona. They will each have to play us and nine teams from the bottom 16 teams.
And why would the clubs support a "festival of football"? It's less games. More games against small clubs in the league phase, and less games when it gets interesting at the end. Are they aiming at high paying neutral fans at all the games? Where would the atmosphere be then? I don't get it .....
no a newspaper has made it up and included it in an article with known planned changes in 2024/25 to try and give it credibility.
One of those "could" stories where they make up what they want.
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Hotels and airlines are going to fucking love the semi and finals being played in a Neutral venue the price gouging will be immense not for the big wigs though they will have booked their shit in good time.
Also do the the clubs involved get an uplift in prize money to offset lost gate/food/corporate and merchandise revenue?
Also do the the clubs involved get an uplift in prize money to offset lost gate/food/corporate and merchandise revenue?
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Well the league won't work like that, and the festival of football semis are somebodys guess at what could happen.
So going off what we know is happening I think it's better than the present group stages.
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They clearly don’t understand what makes the champions league good to watch which is the knock out stages. The group stages are the biggest miss match of teams and when it gets into late November you end up with two potential damp squib group games.
The Spanish, Italian and German clubs who don’t get the money the English clubs get through their domestic tv deals will be happy with the extra few guaranteed group games.
The Spanish, Italian and German clubs who don’t get the money the English clubs get through their domestic tv deals will be happy with the extra few guaranteed group games.
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Honest question, then, as I don't know. How will the league work? Who determines, and how, who plays who and at which venues?
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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.
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Baggashite
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That's why I can't see the idea getting very far.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.