Also, several teams from the Champions League will qualify for the Europa League.
Under the new format of UEFA champions league and europa league, no team from the champions league will qualify for the europa league and all teams that won't advance to the round of 16 will be eliminated.
This is going to be a tough competition from onset. This new format will make all clubs to be serious during their first matches they’ll be playing against each other like a league type. No team will give up and they’ll try as much as possible to gather enough points that’ll make them finish in the top table amongst other teams that’ll be qualifying to the next round of the competition. It doesn’t matter how many matches you’re losing in your group, just make sure you finish in a position worthy of been promoted to the next round of the Champions league as there are now second chance in the Europa League like before. I now wonder how Europa League will also be played next season. The champions league is well understood and I can’t wait for the competition to begin next season because of the competitiveness we will be witnessing there.
It will make the European competitions more interesting and taken serious by clubs because there is no alternative when you lose out of the group stage. Most clubs will try to put in their best performance so that they can finish first or second on the table so that qualifying to the next round will be certain. On the other hand weak clubs will still be weak clubs and they will be eliminated by strong clubs.
It would be more interesting of course but I also disliked the old format where teams only finished third in the Champions League group stage and then the teams played in the Europa League. That way, the big teams that only finished third in the Champions League would have a chance of winning the Europa League trophy. If that's the case,then the team that initially plays in the Europa League becomes the losing team and I don't think that's attractive. But yes, because next season there will be a new format it will certainly be interesting.
At least, the teams that played in the Europa League from the start will be guaranteed to get the Europa League trophy and not have to compete with teams that previously played in the Champions League. But indeed, the reality is also that the teams that only play in the Europa League really have great ambitions to get results so that, surprises also often occur in this European League.