Europe 1 with AFP 4:40 p.m., May 10, 2022
UEFA adopted on Tuesday a reform transforming the Champions League, which will start from the 2024-2025 season with an 8-day mini-championship.
By increasing the number of clubs participating in the competition from 32 to 36 teams, the reform would make it possible in particular to offer more matches to broadcasters.
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 sort 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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