UEFA European Football Forum

Russia's attack on Ukraine has become a fact. Should UEFA react to these events? Is it possible to play the Champions League final in Saint Petersburg in the city of the country that started the war in Europe? Should Russian clubs be excluded from UEFA competitions? Will Gazprom's money be more imp...

Changing the game system gives hope that there will be more high-stakes matches. Will this happen for sure? The proposed solution has its drawbacks. The play-off system without the top 8 teams is the biggest one. I don't know if it's a reward or a punishment? Punishment, because no match means lack ...

96 teams will play in the group stages of CL, EL and ECL. These teams represent 36 football associations. In the Champions League 32 teams will be represented by 15 football associations In the Europa League 32 teams will be represented by 20 football associations In the Conference League 32 teams w...

In my topic I wrote a lot about why I am in favor of creating a sub-league for the Conference League. I also wrote a lot about it in the article "Two worlds of UEFA cups". By reading a note such as: - three european cups are enough! - Champions league and Europe league and conference leagu...

Intertoto's biggest drawback was the timing of the matches. June, July and August. This is not the time for games! I believe that as many weaker teams as possible should be given a chance to play in club competitions, but within the normal league period. That is why I am in favor of the Conference L...

Thank you Club-Mate for a very reasonable statement. The big club fans won't understand it, but the weaker teams are "hungry" for such international competition. Financial issues are also very important. The budgets of these weak teams could improve without harming the big clubs. The sport...

The Q3 phase matches have ended. While analyzing the results of the Conference league matches, I noticed a deviation from the diagrams presented earlier. Finally, 54 main path teams and 10 champions path teams played in the Q3 phase. So, in such situation organizing the CLL games requires minor modi...

The Conference League, starting this year, is a change that has many consequences. In practice, it means the creation of two UEFA cup worlds. The first world is the Champions League and the Europa League. As a result of the changes just made, the main problem is that all league teams that are below...

In my topics, I often refer to the document "2021-24-uefa-club-competitions-scheme" https://images92.fotosik.pl/508/022c84ed04270292med.png It presents a scheme of three UEFA club competitions for the next three years. We see how teams that have failed at one stage of the competition may t...

I decided to write the next topic. I was motivated to do so by the "amirbachar" responses to my previous topic: “What should be the correct format for the Champions League from 2024”. They were painfully honest. Thank you for the truth written! It turned out to be extremely helpful and pro...

What to do to “keep teams interested until the end, that's the most important thing” (more important than fairness) and “prevents worse teams from profiting out of top teams not fielding the best players against them” The answer is: - Give the best teams a goal to fight for untill the end - Give up...

Each club will save their players whenever possible. The introduction of the playoffs to the tournament will only slightly change the scale. And so there will probably be a few teams that will not be 100% involved in matches with some promotion. We don't really know what the scale will be, as there ...

The playoff solution doesn't bring more matches top teams! It can be assumed that 18 teams are the absolute TOP. So in a system with 4 pots, they will be in pot 1 and pot 2. Pot 1 team will play: 2 matches against the teams in pot 1 and 3 matches against the teams in pot 2 = 5 matches against the be...

UEFA's decision on April 19, 2021 approved a new format for the Champions League. The proposed changes aroused great interest. A lot of information has surfaced. Unfortunately, much of this information was imprecise. For example, that the Swiss system known from chess will be introduced. This is obv...

UEFA's decision on April 19, 2021 approved a new format for the Champions League. It was found that the old system based on 8 groups with 4 teams is not attractive anymore and it is time to change it. But why should we wait until 2024 with changes? It is a very long period of time, up to 3 years, as...