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(CNN Spanish) --
The UEFA Executive Committee approved on Tuesday the final format that its competitions will have starting in the 2024/2025 season, including the Champions League, recognized as the highest club football fair on the planet.
The new format is based on the one unveiled in April 2021. Some modifications were made to it after "exhaustive consultation with game stakeholders," UEFA said in a statement.
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How will the Champions League be played from 2024?
We present the four most important points.
The new Champions League
Now there will be
36 teams instead of 32.
The four additional places will be allocated as follows: 1
) to the third-placed team in the European league that is in fifth place in the UEFA standings;
2) a place is added to the so-called "Route of the champions" of the previous phase of the Champions League, so now five teams go through that route instead of four;
3 and 4) the two European leagues that in the previous season have the best collective performance (obtained by dividing the total number of points obtained in each league by the number of participating clubs) will receive an extra place each.
Goodbye to the group stage.
In the new Champions League, it will be played under the league format.
Each of the 36 teams will play eight games against eight different teams (four at home and four away).
The first 8 places in the table at the end of the days go directly to the round of 16.
The clubs that finish between position 9 and 24 will play round-trip qualifiers, as a league, to determine the other 8 classified.
No club will be able to qualify
for the Champions League
based on the coefficients.
These are the main changes that the Champions League will adopt in just over two years.
While that time comes, get ready for the final of the 2021/2022 edition, which will be played between Liverpool and Real Madrid next Saturday, May 28 at the Stade de France.
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