Understoodbabaluj1 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 22:52Of the mass of privileges that UEFA has been handing out for years, I would primarily abolish the worst and most corrupt one, which is undeniably the special path of the champion. This is the worst possible privilege, which hardly discriminates against all the other non-champion clubs of those leagues. Because of this privilege, all three UEFA leagues are significantly weaker than they would be if the really strongest clubs entered. But the mass of national leagues is also destroyed by this privilege, because almost all UEFA money ends up in the hands of the champion, who then easily dominates years with the help of UEFA money, when his budget is twice, three times that of most of his competitors.matt wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 22:11A question: would you take away spots from weak leagues and give them to the 16-30 leagues or just take away spots from weaker countries?babaluj1 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 20:14
ake a look at this year's access list:
1st-5th places ENG, ESP, GER, ITA, FRA play with a total of 6-8 clubs, of which 5-7 directly place in GS and only 5 qualifying PO
16.-20. places CZE, NOR, DEN, CRO, TUR play with a total of 4 clubs without direct places in GS
46th-50th places MLT, GEO, MAC, LIE, WAL play with a total of 4 clubs without direct places in GS
It can be seen that between the 16th and 50th place there is no difference in the number of clubs, nor is there a significant difference in the start in CL or ECL, they all start mostly in the first and second rounds of qualifications. You will agree that between the start of the Top 5 league clubs and the 16th to 20th clubs, it is huge diferent, as is the number of clubs.
On the other hand, Czech, Norwegian, Danish, Croatian, Turkish clubs often take points and even eliminate the Top 5 clubs, because the difference in quality is not that big, while for the clubs of Malta, Georgia, Macedonia, Wales... it is an almost impossible mission against clubs from the Top 16-20 leagues, it happens once in ten years, because the difference in quality is very big.
What does that tell us? When you give huge privileges to some groups, you are definitely discriminating against other groups.
The second worst privilege is direct places in the UEFA leagues, I would put all the clubs in joint qualifications with the Swiss system and then form the CL from the 36 strongest. No gifts, earn a place on the field!
I would take places from the weakest leagues below the 30th place, thus reducing the number of matches in the preliminary rounds of the qualifications, but the main qualifications would be played by the 110 strongest clubs using the Swiss system in 4 rounds.
Realistically, the 3 strongest clubs are enough for leagues below 30th place, or 2 strongest clubs for leagues below 40th place.
It makes some sense but i hope it will never happen because i love the drama of knock-out summer qualifiers and your idea (swiss system) would greatly reduce it.
This is the strongest possible CL with 36/36 superclubs! Fantastically! Can you imagine such a spectacle? I can and I'm looking forward to it, but under one condition, and that is that everyone passes the qualifications! 
