CL new format

It's confirmed boys, the leaks were legit

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No group stage
Leave room for the cup winners cup

Wrong link

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Relevant stuff for qualifying rounds
>ALL losing champions get a chance to play in the EL against other losing champions which means that shitty champions get to play a lot more relevant games in europe
>A chance to meet a team from the big 4 in the EL second qualifying round
>Preliminary rounds make sure to get rid of all the san marinese teams fast
>It's also harder to qualify now

>Preliminary rounds make sure to get rid of all the san marinese teams fast
>It's also harder to qualify now

This doesnt rages the minor leagues in europe?

this isnt seems too good in comparation with the UEFA Nations League

Scenes when Mother Russia gets 4 automatic spots

Relevant stuff for group stage and further
>Only 6 teams will have to qualify for the CL group stage, all others are placed there automatically
>16 to 18 (so at least the half) of the teams in the group stage would be from the big 4
>EL is now a stronger competition with better teams
>Staggered kick-offs – 18.55CET and 21.00CET – in the CL and EL

The harder qualification is indeed an unpopular decision, mainly among the champions of associations #12 and lower
The preliminary round though affects only the 8 weakest associations in the EL and the 4 weakest in the CL
So pretty much only Kosovo, Gibraltar, Andorra and San Marino should be mad

Oh, forgot an important one
There's technically an increased amount of qualifying rounds now and the first round already features contender teams
In the last season the first QR was a meme to eliminate Andorran teams
Now the first QR will feature teams like Celtic, so in order to get to the CL group stage Danish or Swedish champions will have to win 4 double legged fixtures

what the FUCK is up with your league btw, how do you only have a 6 team top tier

>Staggered kick offs
About fucking time

>The top four clubs from the four top-ranked national associations will now qualify automatically for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League

Most leagues outside of the big boy club are slowly dying every year, we were just dying faster than the rest. I believe all games are free to watch too, no tickets needed.
However by the looks of it we're getting decent developments, the league is going to expand to ~12 teams with some of the clubs allegedly getting 10mln in investments

stupid and gay
will only serve to increase the gap between the top teams and everyone else even more
miss when you'd actually see teams go far in the european cup other than barcelona, real, bayern etc. same fucks every year at this point

Some of the magic is gone when Shittown FC can't play the biggest clubs at home anymore.

MONEYMONEYMONEYMONEY.

For me, it's Shitterton Town

So the CL has now become even more of a super league with random guests. Got it.
>staggered kickoffs
Maybe just start at 8am and then have one match start every 2 hours to maximise profits, yes?

Yeah this is the last year of real Champions League we will ever have.

Enjoy it while it lasts lads.

>not Shittenshire United

>Staggered kickoffs

Having a couple pints before CL games was great, and when it's dark with the lights on it feels like a bigger game.

Fuck you UEFA

Last year of real cl was when they were still doing the 2nd group stage.

>just when Real struggles in la liga

hmmmmmmmmm

>rich get richer
>poor get poorer

Yeah football wasn't getting too easy for the rich teams already. Better make it even more one-sided
Retards

Germany does not deserve 4 teams, I would rather see Poortugual get the two starters than Russia too

this, not coincidence the moment they remove second group stage the final is between meme team like porto and monaco

The matches will obviously be based on the respective clubs country of origins timezone, if possible, especially the big matches.

Yeah because watching Porto lose 5-0 is great isn't it?

As it is now. No change

fuck that shit. eastern euroleague when?
we'd have good games, good choreos and even better fights

Are you retarded? Deals like this which favour top 4 competitions will make those competitions even richer which will increase disparity between those leagues and the rest.
My entire point was that there already is a huge disparity now, for example porto losing 5-0 to a meme tier English club, and this deal will only make that worse.
How fucking hard is it to read.

reminder people fell for FFP

Because you didn't suggest any alternatives.

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>still following football in the year 2069 (-41)

>2069 (-41)

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>Lets just give all the money to the losers, right? That will make it better
Literally just American communism

>all these butthurt tinpot irrelevant team ''fans'' from nothing countries crying

KEK get fucked. maybe if your leagues werent a joke uefa would respect you

Why don't you root for your hometown club?

its just them being selfish. they probably support the 1 good team in their shit leagues and think its fine when every other team in the league feeds them players, but football is dead when they have to feed us players. just accept your teams are in the food chain and deal with it without bitching. not every team can be manchester united

Fuck UEFA, Royal League II when?

Lmao just so Portshit can get beat 5-0 again?

Italy had 3 teams in 2018 and only 2 teams during 2017, 2016 and 2015, not only do they fail the qualifying round almost all the time but their maximum slots were capped at 3

Also Hoffenheim failed to qualify during this season and Villareal failed to qualify during the previous season so it's not just an Italy issue either.

liverpoo would also have beaten the 4th german team 5-0 though

at the end of the day if your team is good enough it will make it even if it has to beat some farmers in the knockout tournament to get in it should do that if its not shit

(and that's a good thing)

You’re all a bunch of hypocrites. Complain about “muh rich! muh poor!” but did you ever gave a damn when the match was FC Basel vs Dynamo Kiev?

>there are no changes to the format of the competition
who gives a fuck

>let's make it even easier for the rich guys to become even richer
This shit is turning into NFL.

>More money for the rich club.
>FFP prevents new big clubs to appear

Like poetry

Also, small European countries are also getting shafted in EL as now there will be exactly 8 champions in the groups.

It refers to the amount of groups, teams in groups and the knockout stage
Everything else including the qualifiers and the actual teams that are going to compete has changed
The champions route qualification itself is pretty comfy though. It's always romantic when champions are competing against each other. I think the separated EL qualification routes are cool

>t.paki

achmed, homegrown english players are absolute shit compared to eastern/southern europe. your league consists of 95% imports both on the pitch and as managers and the only redeeming quality is the amount of money your arab overlords throw at the EPL.

Good. Teams like Hoffenheim and Atalanta are much more deserving than shitters like Maribor and Qarabag

england needs a 5th CL spot.

EFL is outpacing the CL it's ridiculous.

there is now a top 5 or 6 where there used to be a top 4

soon no one will care about CL. people already starting to think of it as a EFL break

ah yes, all the great romanian stars, cant wait to see them at the world cup this year

>all these fuckheads not realising that european football when the cl was invented
it shouldve always been the european cup for league winners, cwc for cup winners, and uefa cup for top placed non winning teams cup runners up and league cup winners
this way youd have ~10 good teams in the ec, the same amount for the cwc (unless lots of teams were winning doubles) and at least 20 teams in the uc, making this last one a great competition, like the others
you could then have the supercup as a way to finding out the ultimate european champion, by having these 3 teams play each other
but intead they chose to have the richer leagues become ever richer and end the cwc
pathetic, probably gonna stop watching european football next year

t.pochettino

Porto at least gets some CL money to improve.
Now they perhaps wont

whats the map supposed to be of?

It's different, so I hate it

To alleviate the "but muh shit teams" thing, you could even make the UEFA Cup a free for all, so a team could take part in both UC and one of the other two cups, so the big country champions could also play in a "worthwhile" competition.

Potential combined leagues

>probably gonna stop watching european football next year

Good, stick to your shit farm league portunigger

>FC Basel vs Dynamo Kiev?

personally, sure I don't mind watching most games

Are you a retard?

You mean 1996-1997.

That game is irrelevant to me, but the same goes for el Classico
People only care for their team for the most part

To answer your question: lots of people from Ukraine and Switzerland give a damn about that game
>being THIS new

Not hypocritical.

Real Madrid and Milan got pissy.

But they don't improve. You're never going to be able to take away the insane amounts of money that the big clubs have unless you literally going to go full communism and take it from them. They've grown too big

That doesn't mean you have to give them a hand to get even more money.

If we wanted it like that why not just rank all the teams in europe over a year or somin then put the top x through.

Best league in the world desu.

>Potential combined leagues
I'd like to see an ex-yu or balkan league desu. People would start going more on games

Were you even alive when this was going on. Wdnt current formats be more exciting?

Stay mad shitleg. You guys blew all your bonus point in the past seasons, so now you're below Swiss and Czech leagues, deal with it.

get fuck aboo convict, im from the north, portuniggers, ir moors, as we call them, are south of the Douro
also start playing relevant sports if you want to be taken seriously

Milan is one of the few Italian teams to nut fuck up CL (and now EL) qualifiers, Roma Napoli and Lazio are worse offenders of this. Their problem is coming 3rd/4th.
And I doubt real would have any problem passing them if they end up 4th

Actually see what u mean more maybe.

Well, you have basketball

i dont really like most of them but there should be an all irish league, welsh teams in england and a balcan league
this last one at least as a cup competition, like were goimg to do with spain now

We have it handball too but football is more fun

SKOPJEEEE

>this last one at least as a cup competition
>like were goimg to do with spain now
What and what?
>welsh teams in england
This is already the case though, and I'm not just talking Swansea here

Should I say LONDOOOOOOON or something?
I don't get your post

Well, i think that the preliminary group could be a chance for this small teams to face other teams at their level, also they could get some more UEFA coefficent point.

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If it's not broken we must fix it!

Sorry, with preliminary group i meant the preliminary round.

Milan has more problems making the top-3 these days though, so they gave Italy 4 spots and now they can't get 4th too.

kek ethered

So why didn't they qualify when they had the chance?

A true Champions League would be a competition with only champions from every European country. That would fuck your Real Madrids, your Napolis, your Dortmunds, your Uniteds that can't even win their leagues

F*ck this

Serious question: do people want to see Ajax in the CL?

One of the best talents in Europe, full stadium, huge history.

Modern football....

You seem more frustrated about it than the guy you replied to though, lmao.

>implying Dutch people give a fuck about islamball anymore

haha lmao

I grew up with us being in CL every year. That will obviously never happen again. Kids nowadays will have to watch that stuff on television.

who wants to watch an entire tournament where only 1 of 4 teams can ever win? every year it would just be bayern juve city barca in the semi finals unless they choke the league but it would just be replaced by another team from that league.

they put on matches people want to watch. if there was a CL match between the winner of the romanian league vs the winner of the bulgarian league, or one between madrid/united which do you think people actually want to see, which would get watched?

>FFP prevents new big clubs to appear
it also prevents fake sheiks buying clubs like málaga, signing a bunch of top players, reaching CL semifinals? while not paying all the players' wages and transfers for a full season

>let in 1 dutch team
>fucks over entire dutch league by giving ajax way more money than everyone in the league and the rich get richer

what you guys want with 1 champion from each league will turn every domestic league in europe into 1 multi millionaire team that wins every year and then 19 shit teams that have no hope. teams like celtic that win every year will just get even stronger

Those leagues are slowly dying right now. One team is better than zero.

Also, some of that money will spread to the other clubs as well.

>no seeding
>spread all money evenly
Just made European football more interesting

Even now the big teams get so much more money than little ones. For instance Maribor only got 15M this season, all came from the qualifying rounds and the group stage. Almost none were from tv distribution rights. We were lucky that we drew a spanish and an english team so that we got at least something there.

Uefa and Čefurin keep saying how they don't want a Superleague, but with this new system they are getting one. Smaller teams will rarely reach the group stages and even when they do they wont last long. Every year there are gonna be the same teams over and over again. All beacuse Uefa is pandering to asians.