2024-03-12T20:35:27+00:00
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/ On Tuesday, the European Soccer Affiliation (UEFA) revealed the revised model of the Champions League, which is able to embrace a tennis-style classification system within the spherical of 16, together with different particulars.
In keeping with Reuters, the lottery system will develop into semi-automated, as a substitute of the handbook lottery system, which has develop into a function of the competitors.
The competitors will develop subsequent season from 32 to 36 golf equipment, with the present group stage, which incorporates six teams every containing 4 groups, being changed with one group, by which the golf equipment will play eight matches in opposition to totally different rivals.
The highest 8 groups will qualify on to the spherical of 16, whereas groups from ninth to twenty fourth place will compete to find out the remaining finalists.
Not like the present open draw for the Spherical of 16, the golf equipment will likely be ranked in a draw just like the tennis draw, relying on the groups’ efficiency within the group stage.
Which means that the primary and second seeds can’t meet till the ultimate match, and so they can’t play the third and fourth ranked groups, till the semi-finals on the earliest.
That is the primary change to the Champions League for the reason that 16-team knockout stage changed the second group stage within the 2003-04 season.
“The brand new format will make the competitors extra unpredictable, assure extra matches between huge golf equipment and cut back prior expectations,” UEFA Deputy Secretary Normal and Director of Soccer, Giorgio Marchetti, stated in a press convention at the moment.
The 36 golf equipment will likely be divided into 4 pots, every with 9 groups, and every staff will face two groups from one another pot. The ultimate spherical of group stage matches will embrace 16 matches beginning concurrently.