New Champions League format: here’s what to expect

Journalist at the Sports division

Published on 09/16/2024 at 5:17 p.m.
Reading time: 4 min

HASWith its new format, its league phase from September to January, its play-offs in February, the Champions League returns to us shrouded in a veil of mystery from which it will only definitively free itself at the very end of winter with the knockout rounds, a path well-trodden and re-trodden by the C1 since its creation in 1955.

So what will this first phase look like? What should or can we expect with this Swiss system? As a reminder, the 36 participants play the same number of matches (8), with as many home matches as away matches (4), but not against the same opponents, although their overall level is supposed to be homogeneous with, for all clubs, two opponents from pot 1, two from pot 2, two from pot 3 and two from pot 4.

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