UEFA announced this Monday the new format of the Champions League which will begin from the 2024-2025 season.
The new style of the European Cup will have four more teams with a different format.
What will the format of the new Champions League be like?
The European tournament will go from having from 32 to 36 teams for next year. According to UEFA, the teams will compete eight group stage matchesall against different teams.
The rivals will be organized by pots and each club will face two teams from the four pots. The eight matches will be divided with four home games and four away games.
This will be the classification of the new Champions League:
The top eight teams in the table after eight days will automatically qualify for the next phase.
From ninth to 24th in the standings A playoffs or Liguilla style will be played in the style of Liga MX.
Of these 16 teams they will face each other in a round-trip duel to obtain the other eight teams that will be part of the round of 16.
Finally, from 25th place to 36th place they will be eliminated and will not have access to the Europa League either.
After the regular phase, the tournament format will be the usual one with Round of 16, quarterfinals and semi-finals. The final will be played in a single match with a neutral venue chosen at the beginning of the season.
For its part, the UEFA Europa League and the Conference League They will share the same Champions League format with a league-style group stage.
FIFA organizes a new format of international friendlies
FIFA announced this Monday that the pilot phase of the international friendlies of the FIFA Series will begin next March, from the 18th to the 26th, of the men’s international calendar in Algeria, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka.
With the FIFA Series, the organization aims to help member federations organize international friendlies between four different teams, from different confederations, to be played in a single host country.
FIFA notes that the competition “will provide member federations with the opportunity to engage, more regularly, in meetings between their national teams and representatives from other continents, along with more commercial and technical development opportunities that many of them had not had before.” opportunity to access until now.”
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