Champions League 2027 official plans

[Jantar]

I won't comment anything, thx for understanding.

[Jantar]

[Ricardo]

so remarkable is:
- 4 groups of 10
- max 5 teams per association
- 31+2 direct qualifiers
- playing in Brasil?
- playing in the weekend
- still drop off to EL

[Jantar]

[ultra2013]

I won't comment anything, thx for understanding.

No problem. Welcome to the forum, Alexander Ceferin.

[rpo.castro]

Jantar means "dinner" in portuguese. Today was served earlier.

[Dragonite]

That would be FANTASTIC, we'd be able to watch live all the CL matches if we wanted to.

6 hours on Friday + 7 hours to sleep + 18 hours on Saturday + 7 hours to sleep + 16 hours on Sunday.


At the moment we can only watch live 4 of the CL's 16 matches in every round and we miss the other 12.


Why wait until 2027 though, can't they do it already next season?

[hertolo]

I ... like it?

Really, that looks like a good set up. And mostly fair. Though can somebody help me an tell me how the elimination phase would work here? I mean after the groups, how many go to the finals, how many drop to EL?

The only thing I think is problematic is the big number of qualifiers. However I don't want a huge qualification tournament beforehand either, so I'm okay with it - somehow.

[Lorric]

They have increased the number of teams from the top leagues. England and Italy have 6, Spain and Germany have 5.

I guess that's where your extra 4 teams are coming from, one each from the top 4 leagues. England and Italy probably getting the 6th from the highest coefficient not in CL but in Europe.

[amirbachar]

I ... like it?

Really, that looks like a good set up. And mostly fair. Though can somebody help me an tell me how the elimination phase would work here? I mean after the groups, how many go to the finals, how many drop to EL?

The only thing I think is problematic is the big number of qualifiers. However I don't want a huge qualification tournament beforehand either, so I'm okay with it - somehow.

It says so on the document - 1st and 2nd to R16, 3rd to 6th to R24, 7th and 8th to EL.

[amirbachar]

Seems kind of weird they already plan to stop using the partial round robin (A.K.A. mistakenly as "Swiss"), perhaps it is just a plan B if people won't like it.
The rest of the changes can happen regardless (matches around the world, 40 teams)

[amirbachar]

One other thing that I see here, is that there are teams from only 15 countries, which is one less then the 16 that would be between 2024-2027 (if CL spot won't be used).
This spots would go to a NC instead as you can see (where it says 4+3).

[hertolo]

It says so on the document - 1st and 2nd to R16, 3rd to 6th to R24, 7th and 8th to EL.

I apparently can‘t read properly... thanks

[amirbachar]

It says so on the document - 1st and 2nd to R16, 3rd to 6th to R24, 7th and 8th to EL.

I apparently can‘t read properly... thanks

There are many hints and details here...

[quelhar]

To me this seems much more reasonable than the fake swiss system planned for 2024-2027. However I am not sure how much interest there would be in some of the CL matches worldwide, there is only a handful of clubs so big that people on other continents care for them, certainly not 40.