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The future of European club football has been the subject of heated debate and speculation for years.
In the context of the possible formation of a super league, UEFA is under increasing pressure to meet the demands of major European clubs.
The result of the planning of the European federation is the new Champions League, which will be played with even more participants and with which it would be even more accommodating to the best clubs on the continent.
In recent days, explosive details of the BBC and the Daily telegraph Has been published.
Champions League probably with 36 clubs
Consequently, there is growing evidence that the European main class will inflate even more, from 32 to 36 participants currently. But that’s not the only way UEFA apparently wants the best clubs in Spain and Italy to give up their plans to create their own super league.
As UK media reports, UEFA should even be prepared to equip two non-sports teams with a wild card from the 2024/25 season to gain access to lucrative top-flight jackpots through this back door.
The association’s executive committee is supposed to make this decision at its meeting on April 20, as stated. (Results and calendar of the Champions League)
Two of the four free spots went to the best clubs that did not qualify for the Champions League through their national leagues. The criterion for this is the club’s classification coefficient.
The BVB would be represented in the Champions League with reform
If the reform already took effect, Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea FC would benefit from it. As it stands, neither of them would be in the top four of their leagues, but they are 12th and 13th in the scoring coefficient in the spotlight. All the clubs ahead would have their participation guaranteed through their league classification.
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Even if this suggests at least an indirect sports qualification: with this reform, the association would de facto break with a basic principle of European football, in which the sports qualification has always been used as the only valid requirement to participate in a competition.
Reactions to such reports were correspondingly skeptical.
The association of the European league, to which the Bundesliga also belongs, expressed in a statement its strong concern about “the possible effects of the modified access rights and commercial components on the financial situation of the national leagues.”
The Premier League is likely to be particularly a thorn in the side of the expansion of the schedule from the current six games before Christmas to ten games, the suspects BBC, “because your schedule is already overloaded.”
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Indeed, the coaches, especially Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp, are already complaining that their players are overloaded. After all, they are already being pushed to the limit in the Premier League, the FA Cup and the League Cup.
The game plan is also one of the defining elements of the proposed reform. Teams would no longer compete in six group games with each other in the preliminary round, but instead would play ten games each and earn more money accordingly.
Would the Champions League be bigger than the NFL?
The results then flow to a general table of the 36 teams, of which 16 teams qualify for the knockout phase after the preliminary round. This would make the Champions League the largest sports league in the world, at least in terms of number of participants, with more teams than the NFL. The National Football League currently also consists of 32 teams.
If the reform is actually implemented, UEFA would push the limits of its own philosophy. But apparently the clubs willing to emigrate – such as FC Barcelona or Real Madrid – are still not entirely convinced of this idea.
As the BBC reported, interested clubs want to study the reform plan in detail until they comment on it.
Apparently, the joint statement of all the continental federations and FIFA did not prevent them from pursuing their vision. A few weeks ago he said that the formation of a super league would not be accepted.
All players who were supposed to participate would be excluded from all association competitions. This means that they are not allowed to play for their country in the World and European Championships or the America’s Cup.
