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Everyone talking about formats and coefficients, but nobody mentioned the real problem that's happening next season: with the Europa Conference League (ECL) changing its name to just the Conference League, what acronym will we use for it when CL is already taken by Champions League? Still ECL? CoL? ...

You're right, yes. Although with such a small number of games in a huge league, the differences between clubs will be so small that I think it'll be impossible to "aim" for anything before the last game. In most cases, the difference between a win and a loss there will be a swing of multip...

btw probably the primary reason for the bracket having pairs drawn (1/2 vs 15/16) instead of fixed (1vs16 and 2vs15) is so they can avoid politically forbidden clashes without inventing new rules. Which they'll have to do if 2 of those pairs end up in the same bracket pair, but that's very unlikely ...

Is it clear that we will have a full bracket and not draws for the knockout stage? The last information I saw from UEFA dated from early december was ambiguous. I haven't seen anything to the contrary. Here it is explained on UEFA's website: https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/0268-12157d...

Re. the league phase pots -- for an individual club they don't matter at all, right? Given that you'll be phasing two teams (1 in ECL) from each pot regardless. You're right, yes. For individual clubs coefficients will now only matter in qualifying. And for the league stage this means the top seede...

I also really like the increased equality in playing against teams your coefficient size too. .... Also, another thing I love about the new format is no dropping down from UCL to UEL and UEL to ECL. I didn't like that at all. Yes, these are also 2 significant improvements. The loss of the draws at ...

Can anyone explain the Swiss System? If you can, please let the teams be numbers from 1 to 36 and explain how it works? Do you know by the draw all 8 matches and rivals for each team? How do all this affect clubs from the same country? :dontknow: First, keep in mind that this UEFA "Swiss"...

I like that you're playing against a different opponent each round and I like that after the league phase there'll be a proper bracket for the KO rounds. Even though the "Swiss" name is misleading and plainly incorrect, I don't really see any significant drawbacks compared to groups, so ov...

I could be wrong but to me it looks like you've assumed all the seeded sides will win the earlier qualifiers, when of course sometimes they won't. Yes I did, I just wanted to make a quick projection to see more-or-less what teams would be here - should we expect similar teams to the current EL or r...

I tried to make a simulation for the league route qualifying for EL2 (using this year's coefficients and teams), and this the seeding for the playoff round. https://i.imgur.com/v84ch3y.jpg This looks remarkably similar to the current EL qualifying. So apart from the champions, the path for other tea...

Here's an interview (in Croatian) with the director of Croatian side NK Rijeka who was present at the ECA meeting: http://www.novilist.hr/Sport/Nogomet/LUKA-IVANCIC-Europska-liga-dva-je-slamka-spasa-za-klubove-poput-Rijeke He confirmed some things that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere, so I regist...