There are some reports about possible changes to the Champions League format starting from the 2024/2025 season. UEFA is interested in finding a solution that the European heavyweights will be happy with because the top football teams have been threatening UEFA with creating a European Super League on their own.
These are some of the changes that have been reported:
- The participants list would we extended from 32 to 36 teams.
- The group stage format of 8 groups with 4 teams in each will be changed to a league format.
- Each team will play a guaranteed number of 10 matches during the first stage of the competition compared to 6 matches that is currently the case.
- The TOP 8 would be automatically qualified to the round of 16.
- An X number of other teams will play in some sort of playoff to fill the remaining slots.
- This will result in an increase in played matches during the first stage from 96 to 180, which also means more money for the clubs involved in the competition.
Read more about it below:
https://www.si.com/soccer/2021/02/04/uefa-champions-league-expansion-format-change-plan-proposalhttps://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/feb/04/champions-league-revamp-talks-could-herald-end-of-group-stage