Football fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the start of the new Champions League.
World football fans are eagerly awaiting the start of the new edition of the European Champions League 2024-2025, the strongest competition in the world, which is expected to be very special.
The next edition of the season will bring more joy, because it is being carried out with a new system approved by the European Union, which will increase the number of games, expand the scope of the competition and break the boredom of the group stage.
Based on betting odds, Score90, a website that specializes in sports statistics, shows that English Manchester City will be the team with a 24% chance of winning the Champions League next season.
He gave just 19 percent to Real Madrid, who recently won the continental cup.
– 90 Score (@Score90_) June 4, 2024
Percentage of teams that have won the Champions League for the 2024-2025 season:
1- Manchester City, England. 24%
2- Real Madrid of Spain: 19%
3- Arsenal England: 8%
4- Liverpool England: 7%
5 – Barcelona, Spain 7%
6- Bayern Munich: 7%
7- Inter Milan 5%
8- Paris Saint-Germain, France: 5%
9- Bayern Munich, Germany: 3%
10- Atlético Madrid of Spain 2%
The new European Champions League system that will be implemented from the next edition.
The number of groups and the shape of the lot
The most notable feature of the new format is that it has moved the tournament from 32 teams to a 36-team competition, excluding the now-recognised teams.
The four new seats will be awarded based on the following criteria.
- The country’s third-ranked club has moved up one place to fifth in the continent.
- Increasing the number of clubs eligible for the “Champions Path” from 4 to 5, one seat for the club that wins the national league.
- Two final places (total number of points divided by participating clubs) for associations whose clubs achieved the best results in the previous season. These two federations will receive a seat for the top-ranked club in the domestic league after the seats allocated to the Champions League.
Each team will draw 8 matches against 8 different opponents (4 home and 4 away) in 4 different pots with each pot containing 9 teams. The first pot consists of the 2023-2024 Champions League champions with the top 8 UEFA ranked teams, not the teams currently winning the top European leagues. The remaining three bowl teams are also selected by UEFA at the end of this season, taking into account the previous five seasons.
Matches and tournament time have increased.
In the first round of the competition, 144 games were played and 96 games were played in the Champions League. In total, the teams played 189 games under the new system and 125 games under the old system.
After the first stage, the 36 teams will be ranked from first to 36th in the league based on the points they have earned, and the difference in points will be broken down by the average goal standard. .
In this league, the top eight teams advance directly to the round of 16, and the 16 teams from 9th to 24th play home and away, with the winner advancing to the round of 16.
From here on, the Champions League, as in its current format, will see the winners advance to the quarter-finals, then the semi-finals and finally the final.
Clubs have qualified for the first version of the new system
- England (4): Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Aston Villa.
- Spain (4): Real Madrid, Barcelona, Girona, Atletico Madrid.
- Germany (5): Bayern Munich, Stuttgart, Bayern Munich, Leipzig and Dortmund.
- Italy (5): Inter Milan, Bologna, Juventus and Atalanta.
- France (3): Paris Saint-Germain, Monaco, Brest
- Netherlands (2): Eindhoven, Feyenoord.
- Portugal (2): Sport and Benfica.
- Belgium (1): Bruges.
- Scotland (1): Celtic.
- Austria (1): Sturm Graz.
- Ukraine (1): Shakhtar Donetsk.
- 5 winners from the elimination stage (Champions).
- Two winners from the elimination stage (non-champions).
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