The Champions League could change its formula from 2024. -

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The small circle of the richest clubs makes rain and shine on European football.

Certainly, he seems to have lost his battle for a closed Superleague.

But it is surely not a definitive defeat and, above all, by brandishing this idea that nobody wants, he has managed to scare UEFA, developing a new formula that takes the League a little further away champions of his original idea.

According to

L'Equipe

du jour, the European body is planning the implementation for 2024 of a revised format, much less readable, with almost twice as many matches and a share of uncertainty reduced to the strict minimum.

We are still getting a lot closer to what the powerful wanted.

France winning… for now

In detail, finished the group stage, the first round would see 36 teams face off (4 more than today), divided into four hats of nine, in a sort of championship for 10 days (no first leg matches). -return).

At its end, the first eight of the general classification would be directly qualified for the 8th finals, the teams finishing between the 9th and the 24th playing a jump-off back and forth to join them.

In the end, there would be 180 games before the round of 16, against 96 currently.

Thursday evenings would also be requisitioned for the C1.

From the point of view of French football, there is still good news in all of this.

Ligue 1 would have what it has been asking for for a long time, namely three direct qualifiers for the competition, plus another who would play a preliminary round.

Be careful though, for that you have to keep 5th place in the UEFA index, which is not won if we rely on recent campaigns.

Moreover,

L'Equipe

did the math.

If we base ourselves on the results since 2018 (which will be the case in 2023 when it will be necessary to distribute the places), France has already lost its place to the benefit of Portugal.

There are two seasons left to resume it.

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