New Format UEFA Tournaments to Take Place From 2024/2025 Season

UEFA Tournaments Reformed - 2024/2025 UEFA Season begins

In case you missed it, UEFA, the body responsible for hosting club tournaments has announced a new format to its competitions – The UEFA Champions League, The UEFA Europa League and the UEFA Europa Conference League for the next season. 

UEFA President Alexsander Ceferin made this official during a UEFA committee conference in UEFA headquarters, Nyon, Switzerland. This new format will take effect from the 2024/2025 UEFA season with the following changes:

1. 36 Teams included (up from 32)

2. Group Stages are replaced by one big league table

3. Each Team plays 10 games in the first phase (5 Home, 5 Away)

4. The top eight sides in the league phase will qualify automatically for the knockout stage

5. Teams finishing 9^th -24^th place will compete in a two legged play-off to secure their path to the last 16.

While the UCL is the main focus, the UEFA Europa League and Conference League were also part of the change;

1. 8 League stage games

2. 6 games each in League stage

How will teams qualify for the UEFA tournament?

Every team will earn their place in the UCL, Europa and Conference League through team’s domestic competition performance. This means that teams with a good historic record and performance in all UEFA competitions will be ranked higher on the UEFA co-efficient and hence will earn them a place in the League.

NB: All UEFA fixtures remains midweek.

Tags: UEFA, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, UCL