New format promises more teams and games
Updated On: 28 August, 2024 07:54 AM IST | Geneva | AP
“The key aim is to improve competitive balance and sporting interest and in the process increase the number of meaningful matches—matches with something at stake for both sides— throughout the competition,” UEFA said
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The new Champions League format this season will see more teams playing more games for more prize money. On Thursday, the Union of European Football Associations makes the draw in Monaco for the match schedule of the new single-standings league phase that replaces the traditional group stage.
The first new Champions League format since 2003 promises more of almost everything that Europe’s wealthiest and most influential clubs wanted from UEFA.
There are four more places in a 36-team line-up; at least eight games each instead of six; Champions League games scheduled in January for the first time; a prize money rise of at least 25 per cent to a minimum of 2.5 billion euros (USD 2.8 billion).
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