There are no groups bro. All our opponents have their own set of fixtures which are diffrent from our own.
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The Champions League no longer is made up of groups. It's changed from the regular 8 groups to a League format.
- the new UCL format teams will now play 8 matches with 8 different opponents in the league table.
So at the start of this draw there were 4 pots. Each team will take on two teams from each pot. This means they will play 8 games.
This is a league format containing the 36 teams, not a group.
- Top 8 automatically qualifies for the Round of 16
- Teams from 9th to 24th are matched up for a playoff to join the Round of 16, the losers are out. (No dropping to the Europa League)
- Teams from 25th to 36th are eliminated from the competition immediately.
- The RO16, Quarterfinals & Semifinals will be the regular two legged matches.
- the new UCL format teams will now play 8 matches with 8 different opponents in the league table.
So at the start of this draw there were 4 pots. Each team will take on two teams from each pot. This means they will play 8 games.
This is a league format containing the 36 teams, not a group.
- Top 8 automatically qualifies for the Round of 16
- Teams from 9th to 24th are matched up for a playoff to join the Round of 16, the losers are out. (No dropping to the Europa League)
- Teams from 25th to 36th are eliminated from the competition immediately.
- The RO16, Quarterfinals & Semifinals will be the regular two legged matches.
Not sure a 5 yo would understand this, but I’ve tried to simplify it as much as possible.
1)It’s called a Swiss format. It’s commonly used in chess where you have a large group of participants but want to maintain a league format without having each contestant play every other contestant.
2)There are no groups. Just one big pool of 36 teams.
3) For purposes of the draw, the pool is divided into 4 pots of 9 teams each. Which pot a club lands in depends on its UEFA coefficient.
4) Juve is in pot 2 of this year’s edition
5) The rules of the draw are as follows. Each team will play 8 games- 4 home and 4 away. They will face two teams from each pot. A team cannot face an opponent from its own association. Furthermore they can face a maximum of two opponents from a different association. For example, Juve can only face a max of two teams from England.
6) Opponents are drawn by a computer, unlike previous editions due to the complex nature of the draw. Note: it is almost a mathematical certainty that each team will have a set of opponents that is unique to it. Hence there are 36 different fixture lists (one for each team).
7) Within a certain pot, teams are drawn manually to see whose fixtures are determined first. In this case, Man City was drawn first, hence the computer selected their opponents first. Next was Inter and so on
8) For teams that are drawn later, only fixtures that are remaining are drawn. For example, for Juve, only 4 more opponents were drawn because by the time our name was manually pulled, we had already drawn Man City, Leipzig, Club Brugge and Benfica.
9) Only the list of opponents was drawn. The dates for the fixture list will be releaes on Saturday.
9) There will be just one points table. The top 8 teams will automatically qualify for the round of 16. Teams placed between 9th and 24th place will go through a playoff for remaining R of 16 spots
1)It’s called a Swiss format. It’s commonly used in chess where you have a large group of participants but want to maintain a league format without having each contestant play every other contestant.
2)There are no groups. Just one big pool of 36 teams.
3) For purposes of the draw, the pool is divided into 4 pots of 9 teams each. Which pot a club lands in depends on its UEFA coefficient.
4) Juve is in pot 2 of this year’s edition
5) The rules of the draw are as follows. Each team will play 8 games- 4 home and 4 away. They will face two teams from each pot. A team cannot face an opponent from its own association. Furthermore they can face a maximum of two opponents from a different association. For example, Juve can only face a max of two teams from England.
6) Opponents are drawn by a computer, unlike previous editions due to the complex nature of the draw. Note: it is almost a mathematical certainty that each team will have a set of opponents that is unique to it. Hence there are 36 different fixture lists (one for each team).
7) Within a certain pot, teams are drawn manually to see whose fixtures are determined first. In this case, Man City was drawn first, hence the computer selected their opponents first. Next was Inter and so on
8) For teams that are drawn later, only fixtures that are remaining are drawn. For example, for Juve, only 4 more opponents were drawn because by the time our name was manually pulled, we had already drawn Man City, Leipzig, Club Brugge and Benfica.
9) Only the list of opponents was drawn. The dates for the fixture list will be releaes on Saturday.
9) There will be just one points table. The top 8 teams will automatically qualify for the round of 16. Teams placed between 9th and 24th place will go through a playoff for remaining R of 16 spots
Yesterday a youtuber (2010MisterChip) made an excel sheet to calculate the difficulty of the games per teams based on stats like coefficient Home / Away, strenght of opponent, etc...
According to these calculations PSG have the most difficult path with a difficulty of 84.4
Bayern the easiest one 23.15
Juventus the 6th most difficult 67.74
Atalanta the easiest from Italian teams 27.7