La UEFA prepare a new tournament prior to the start of the Champions That will serve as a kick-off to the season. It will be played from 2024, when the new format of the Champions League also starts approved last month. The tournament will be played by four teams, including the winner of the last Champions League, in Final Four format. USA seems the most likely place for it to take place.
The European Super Cup will not disappear, but the champion of the Champions will no longer play it, but the champion of the Europe League in front of the champion Conference League.
UEFA had in mind to mount a Final Four in the Champions League, something that has not been possible, so it is going to try that format in a summer tournament. The highest organization of European football also responds in this way to the summer tournaments that the big teams are setting up.
How will the four teams that play the new tournament be chosen? It seems certain that the champion of the last Champions League will be one of them. The other three could be “three very successful teams”as pointed l’quipeeither the first classified of the regular league in the new Champions League format, as a sign AP in an article a few weeks ago. In this last way, UEFA would give even more value to fighting for the first places in the regular league.
The tournament will be played in August, with two semifinals and the final. It is not yet official, but it is an idea that is being considered and that is liked by the clubs and the club competitions committee.
Champions League match on a Thursday to start
According to L’quipe, another novelty is that in the new Champions League formation, which starts in the 2024-25 season, it is to start on a Thursday, although the rest of the weeks will be played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as is done in usual way.
New format of the Champions
Last month the new Champions League format was approved, for the 2024-27 triennium, a modification that comes in response to the movement of the super league. they will dispute it 36 teamsinstead of the 32 that play it now, and each one will play eight games against different rivals. The top eight will go directly to the round of 16. and from the ninth to the twenty-fourth they will dispute a additional playoffback and forth, to meet the other eight eighth-finalists.
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UEFA prepares a new tournament to start the season prior to the Champions League