Chat Champions league format

[Deviantdemon]

Is this only me or the champions league format changed?

[TheF]

No. It's same for everyone. CL format changes after 2024 (third season).

[DutchTony]

I love it. Not sure how it's worked out who plays who. I'm guessing it's still seeded.

[Save&Repeat]

It's a bit weird, not a fan.

[DoneHisCruciate]

It’s going to take a while to get used to when it comes in for real in a couple of seasons.

16 hours ago, DutchTony said:

I love it. Not sure how it's worked out who plays who. I'm guessing it's still seeded.

It’s based on a Swiss tournament system - not sure what the fan reaction to it will be 😂 Weirdly fascinating though:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament

[zaangie]

It's the best format! I love it 

[AdamNufc]

I think it's 10 games per team.

Probably work as 6 groups of 6 teams, each play each other twice and then the points are just put into the combined league table. Seems a decent idea, would put an end to a team in one group finishing 2nd and going through but with less points than a team finishing 3rd in another group and going out.

[zaangie]

3 hours ago, AdamNufc said:

I think it's 10 games per team.

Probably work as 6 groups of 6 teams, each play each other twice and then the points are just put into the combined league table. Seems a decent idea, would put an end to a team in one group finishing 2nd and going through but with less points than a team finishing 3rd in another group and going out.

It's 8 games per team and always against a different team. First 8 go to 1/8 finals and teams between 9th and 26th go to a playoff where the winners will meet the other 8 as second seeders.

[AdamNufc]

7 hours ago, zaangie said:

It's 8 games per team and always against a different team. First 8 go to 1/8 finals and teams between 9th and 26th go to a playoff where the winners will meet the other 8 as second seeders.

Wonder how they work out which 7 teams you face then and 36 doesn't divide into 8 

[VinnieV]

9 minutes ago, AdamNufc said:

Wonder how they work out which 7 teams you face then and 36 doesn't divide into 8 

In game it seems to be random but in real life I believe in real life I think they put them in order from the team with the higest co-efficient down to the team with the lowest then the top nine all play each other once, the second nine all play each other once, the third nine all play each other once, and the bottom 9 all play each other once.

[zaangie]

33 minutes ago, AdamNufc said:

Wonder how they work out which 7 teams you face then and 36 doesn't divide into 8 

They gave 8 na trama. And it's all draw before the first match. I don't know if it's going to have seeds or not.

What do you mean by 36 doesn't devide into 8?

[DoneHisCruciate]

This is ESPN’s explanation of how it will work:

 

How will they decide the fixtures?

UEFA is expected to create four pots of nine teams, almost certainly based upon the five-year club coefficient (based on previous success). Each team will play two teams from each pot (one home, one away) to create an eight-match fixture list of roughly equal strength.

More "big matches" are created by the teams in the top pots being drawn against each other, which wasn't possible under the current system.

For instance, the teams in Pot 1 would draw two other clubs from Pot 1, 2, 3 and 4. Teams from the same association still cannot play each other in the group stage.

This is how the seeding pots would look, based on a 36-team Champions League intake using the new system and last season's final league tables.

Pot 1: Chelsea, Villarreal, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Lille, Sporting CP, Real Madrid

Pot 2: Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund, FC Porto, Ajax

Pot 3: Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon, RB Leipzig, FC Salzburg, Benfica, Atalanta, Zenit St Petersburg, Besiktas, Dynamo Kyiv

Pot 4: Dinamo Zagreb, Club Brugge, Young Boys, Leicester City, AC Milan, Real Sociedad, Malmo, VfL Wolfsburg, Sheriff Tiraspol

So, Premier League champions Manchester City could have a "Swiss Model" fixture list of: Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, FC Salzburg, Young Boys, Sheriff Tiraspol.

So who goes through to the knockout rounds?

The top eight go directly through to the round of 16 and will be seeded in the draw. Clubs placed 9th to 24th will go into two-legged playoffs, with the winners going through as unseeded teams and the losers going out. There will be no dropdown of teams into the Europa League knockout rounds as of 2024-25. Clubs ranked 25th to 36th will be eliminated from Europe immediately.

It means the team ranked 24th in the group stage, only good enough for an unseeded place in Europa League under the current system, could actually go on to be European champions.

The competition then returns to the traditional format from the round of 16 onwards

[zaangie]

11 hours ago, DoneHisCruciate said:

This is ESPN’s explanation of how it will work:

 

How will they decide the fixtures?

UEFA is expected to create four pots of nine teams, almost certainly based upon the five-year club coefficient (based on previous success). Each team will play two teams from each pot (one home, one away) to create an eight-match fixture list of roughly equal strength.

More "big matches" are created by the teams in the top pots being drawn against each other, which wasn't possible under the current system.

For instance, the teams in Pot 1 would draw two other clubs from Pot 1, 2, 3 and 4. Teams from the same association still cannot play each other in the group stage.

This is how the seeding pots would look, based on a 36-team Champions League intake using the new system and last season's final league tables.

Pot 1: Chelsea, Villarreal, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich, Lille, Sporting CP, Real Madrid

Pot 2: Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool, Sevilla, Borussia Dortmund, FC Porto, Ajax

Pot 3: Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon, RB Leipzig, FC Salzburg, Benfica, Atalanta, Zenit St Petersburg, Besiktas, Dynamo Kyiv

Pot 4: Dinamo Zagreb, Club Brugge, Young Boys, Leicester City, AC Milan, Real Sociedad, Malmo, VfL Wolfsburg, Sheriff Tiraspol

So, Premier League champions Manchester City could have a "Swiss Model" fixture list of: Atletico Madrid, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Benfica, FC Salzburg, Young Boys, Sheriff Tiraspol.

So who goes through to the knockout rounds?

The top eight go directly through to the round of 16 and will be seeded in the draw. Clubs placed 9th to 24th will go into two-legged playoffs, with the winners going through as unseeded teams and the losers going out. There will be no dropdown of teams into the Europa League knockout rounds as of 2024-25. Clubs ranked 25th to 36th will be eliminated from Europe immediately.

It means the team ranked 24th in the group stage, only good enough for an unseeded place in Europa League under the current system, could actually go on to be European champions.

The competition then returns to the traditional format from the round of 16 onwards

Good job with the information. It's all clear now