CL Format, season 2009/2010 (1 Viewer)

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There will be some changes in CL starting from the new season. Starting from the group stages there won't be any changes, but there will be many changes in the way teams will qualify for CL.

In the next posts i'll try to explain it better.
The main thing to know is that unlike the last years when 16 teams qualified directly for CL while the other 16 had to play qualification matches in order to get into the CL groups, from this year 22 teams will qualify directly to CL groups while only 10 teams will secure the CL through qualifications.
But even these 10 teams will qualify in two different ways, from two different qualifying groups................................

 

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22 teams will qualify directly for CL groups.
These are the 22 teams:

1 CL winner of season 2008/09
3 teams from England (the top 3 from EPL obviously)
3 teams from Spain
3 teams from Italy
2 teams from Germany
2 teams from France
2 teams from Russia
1 team from Romania
1 team from Portugal
1 team from the Netherlands
1 team from Scotland
1 team from Turkey
1 team from Ukraine

Total = 22 teams

Note* : If the CL winner from season 2008/09 already qualified through the domestic league, then its place in the CL groups will be taken by the Champions of Belgium.

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5 teams will qualify through the qualification cyclus named Best Placed Team.

These 5 teams will qualify after 2 rounds. In these two rounds 15 teams will participate.
10 will start in round 1, while the other 5 in round 2.

This is how:

ROUND 1 (10 teams)
- 3rd placed team from Russia
- Runners-up of Romanian league
- Runners-up of Portuguese league
- Runners-up of Scottish league
- Runners-up of Dutch league
- Runners-up of Turkish league
- Runners-up of Ukrainian league
- Runners-up of Belgian league
- Runners-up of the Greek league
- Runners-up of Czech league

These 10 teams will form 5 pairs. The winners of these 5 pairs will go in round two.

ROUND 2
- The 5 winners of round one will play against :

- The 4th placed team from England
- The 4th placed team from Spain
- The 4th placed team from Italy
- The 3rd placed team from Germany
- The 3rd placed team from France

The 5 winners will go in CL groups

 

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5 teams will qualify through the qualification cyclus named Champions Path.


40 teams from the weakest 40 leagues in Europe will play in this qualifying competition. Teams from the best 12 european leagues won't participate here.

Th 5 last CL qualifiers will be given after 4 rounds.

In round 1 6 teams will participate and the 3 winners will go to round 2. These are the 6 teams:

The champions of
- Montenegro
- Faroe Islands
- Luxemburg
- San Marino
- Andorra
- Malta

In round 2 the 3 winners from round one and 31 different teams will form 17 pairs. The winners of these 17 pairs will go to round 3.

Here, apart from the winners of round 1, the champions of these leagues will start the qualifiers:
- Finland
- Lithuania
- Slovenia
- Macedonia
- Georgia
- Belarus
- Switzerland
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Bulgaria
- Norway
- Austria
- Serbia
- Israel
- Cyprus
- Slovakia
- Poland
- Croatia
- Latvia
- Iceland
- Rep. Of Ireland
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Hungary
- Moldova
- Azerbaijan
- Estonia
- Albania
- Kazakhstan
- Armenia
- Wales
- Northern Ireland

In round 3 the winners of these 17 pairs will be joint by another 3 teams.
- The champions of Greece
- The champions of Czech Republic
- The champions of Belgium *

We'll get 20 teams (10 pairs this way). The winners of these 10 pairs will go to round 4, where 5 new pairs will be created and the winners of these last 5 pairs will go to CL groups.

* Note: If the winner of CL 2008/09 already qualified for CL through the domestic league, then to make up for this, the winners of Belgian league will be entered into the group stage, the Swiss champions will be promoted to the Third qualifying round and the Faroese champions and the Luxembourgian Champions to the Second qualifying round.