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If you hated the Super League just wait until you see the new Champions League format
How does Uefa’s flagship club competition stack up against now-doomed rebel tournament - and is it really a Super League in all but name?
Clubs and Uefa have been at loggerheads over the famous competition
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But how does Uefa’s flagship club competition stack up against the now-doomed rebel tournament and is it really a Super League in all but name?
Format
Champions League: Formally ratified on Monday in defiance at the Super League’s launch and due to begin in 2024, the revamped tournament essentially replaces the current 32-team group stage, which is split into eight groups of four, with one of a single 36-team group using the so-called ‘Swiss system’.
Clubs and Uefa have been at loggerheads over the famous competition
Credit: REUTERS
The collapse of the Super League has seen the Champions League restored as club football’s premier cup competition.
But what does the future hold for the tournament? Is its revamped format, ratified this week, simply a Super League by the back door and what happens now with those rebel clubs who tried to breakaway?
Telegraph Sport breaks down the main issues.
How will the revamped Champions League work?
Formally ratified on Monday in defiance at the Super League’s launch and due to begin in 2024, the revamped tournament essentially replaces the current 32-team group stage, which is split into eight groups of four, with one of a single 36-team group using the so-called ‘Swiss system’. Instead of playing three group opponents home and away across six match-days, teams will play 10 different opponents of varying strengths.
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The Super League has left the planned UCL changes uncertain | David Ramos/Getty Images
UEFA is in discussions with Centricus Asset Management over financing a €6bn revamp to the Champions League to stop plans for the breakaway Super League in their tracks.
Centricus is a global investment firm ran out of London which has previously been involved in several projects with FIFA and also held talk to invest in FC Basel.
Breaking | UEFA are in talks with an investment fund to create a new Champions League that would have a €4.5bn budget, which could rise to €7bn, according to RMC & Bloomberg. Get French Football News (@GFFN) April 20, 2021