The Champions League will start from 2024-2025 with a mini-championship of 8 days with 36 teams, against 32 clubs playing the group stage today over 6 days, UEFA ruled on Tuesday, a controversial reform supposed to propose more matches to broadcasters.
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At the end of its Executive Committee meeting in Vienna, the European body adopted the outlines of this overhaul, also with two additional places allocated to the two best European nations over the previous season, a kind of catch-up net for the big names, and a third club qualified for the fifth nation in the UEFA index, currently France.
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