Champions League 2023-24 (43 Viewers)

[magician]

With 36 teams and only 10 matches, how on earth would they decide on who is going to play against who?

How would they even handle equal points at the standing when not everyone faces each others?

 

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[Badass J Elkann]

Isn't this a mini-superleague? fxxk uefa

Sounds utterly shit but it's uefa nothing new from them

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

With 36 teams and only 10 matches, how on earth would they decide on who is going to play against who?

How would they even handle equal points at the standing when not everyone faces each others?

36 Teams, 10 (?) random matches per team.

Top 8 advance, bottom 8 are out, 9-24 play each other in 1st knockout stage to get the top 8.

 

[magician]

36 Teams, 10 (?) random matches per team.

Top 8 advance, bottom 8 are out, 9-24 play each other in 1st knockout stage to get the top 8.

Totally random matches? So a team can meet 9 different teams? And potentially a team can face 9 top teams randomly while the other face 9 bottom teams?

Ridiculous idea, also as I asked, with no accumulative head to head meetings, how would they handle equal points on the table? Just by goal differences? In that case, teams like allegri's would never reach the top of the table with their 1-0 wins if others won 3-0 lol...

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

Random in the sense that there are 36 teams and you can only draw X teams and Y teams from certain pots, yea.

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Totally random matches? So a team can meet 9 different teams? And potentially a team can face 9 top teams randomly while the other face 9 bottom teams?

Ridiculous idea, also as I asked, with no accumulative head to head meetings, how would they handle equal points on the table? Just by goal differences? In that case, teams like allegri's would never reach the top of the table with their 1-0 wins if others won 3-0 lol...

How will draws be made?
At the start of the season, the 36 participants will be divided into four pots of nine. Pot 1 will include the reigning champions as well as the eight clubs with the best coefficients. Pots 2, 3 and 4 will be ordered on club coefficients.


Each team will be drawn to play two teams from each pot, including their own. That means fans will be able to watch the best teams play each other much earlier than before as each team from Pot 1 will play two other teams from Pot 1 in the group stage. Clubs from the same country will generally be kept apart in the group stage. However, associations with four or more teams competing in the Champions League could play one match against a club from the same league. So fans could see two Premier League giants in action against each other in the group stage.

There will be only one draw for the round of 16 onwards, with teams being seeded based on their position in the group stage.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1814353/Champions-League-rule-changes-explained

 

[magician]

Random in the sense that there are 36 teams and you can only draw X teams and Y teams from certain pots, yea.

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How will draws be made?
At the start of the season, the 36 participants will be divided into four pots of nine. Pot 1 will include the reigning champions as well as the eight clubs with the best coefficients. Pots 2, 3 and 4 will be ordered on club coefficients.


Each team will be drawn to play two teams from each pot, including their own. That means fans will be able to watch the best teams play each other much earlier than before as each team from Pot 1 will play two other teams from Pot 1 in the group stage. Clubs from the same country will generally be kept apart in the group stage. However, associations with four or more teams competing in the Champions League could play one match against a club from the same league. So fans could see two Premier League giants in action against each other in the group stage.

There will be only one draw for the round of 16 onwards, with teams being seeded based on their position in the group stage.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1814353/Champions-League-rule-changes-explained

Oh so they still retain the pot system... and each team still faces the same team twice? Not 9 different teams?

How's that different from the groups system?

 

[X Æ A-12]

Oh so they still retain the pot system... and each team still faces the same team twice? Not 9 different teams?

How's that different from the groups system?

No each team you face once. It is 9 games against 9 different teams

 

[magician]

No each team you face once. It is 9 games against 9 different teams

I see, but the other poster mentioned that each team will face 2 teams from each pots, there are only 4 pots, they would require 1 extra team, where would that team come from?

It's a mess for my 1st impression, such radical changes with too many uncertainties...

 

[zizinho]

Is that 36 with Saudi and Qatari teams or without

 

[U Picciriddu]

@U Picciriddu gg

This was really some legendary stuff for us, second half was one big party.

 

[campionesidd]

Isn't this a mini-superleague? fxxk uefa

Not a mini- super league, rather a bloated monstrosity.

 

[Seven]

I'm growing tired of football tbh.

There are just too many games.

 

[Rockets]

Not a mini- super league, rather a bloated monstrosity.

So is the future World Cup with that new format

 

[DAiDEViL]

Bloated with way too many shitty teams. Why even bother putting the word Champions in there.

 

[Scottish]

Bloated with way too many shitty teams. Why even bother putting the word Champions in there.

I wanna see a return of the old style, where its just the Champions of each UEFA member association. No group stages, no seeds. Pure knockout all the way.

Then have the Europa League for whoever else wants to play

 

[JuveJay]

Isn't this a mini-superleague? fxxk uefa

 

[Badass J Elkann]

I'm growing tired of football tbh.

There are just too many games.

You know something Agnelli may be right when he said people will soon have subscriptions to watch the last periods of matches, rather than sit through an entire game.
If you ask me football in particular the European competitions has become so diluted. Its crazy to think England might soon get 5 CL places, it'll no longer feel like a European competition as such

 

[Strickland]

Isn't this a mini-superleague? fxxk uefa

compared to the format of the uefa conference league this is as simple as it gets. given it's probably the same guys that worked on both I'm pleasantly surprised, it could've been worse. but generally this is moving in the direction of the nba, they too have 1230 games in regular season which mean fuck-all.

for people not familiar with the Conference League, I looked it up when we qualified, it's a nightmare, you'll never explain it to a 9yo football fan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

 

[juve123]

Isn't this new format a response to the European clubs asking for more revenue from Uefa in the champions League and also the club world Cup which has also become a 32 club tournament? Feel sorry for the players with so many games.

 

[ßöмßäяðîëя]

If they weren't forced to do it and they had a choice or were well-compensated for it. :/