Sunday, PSG won the Champions Trophy against Monaco (1-0). He could have won the last TDC under this formula. The LFP is thinking about a new format.
Since its creation, the Champions Trophy
opposes the winner of the Ligue 1 and that of the
French Cup. If a club wins both competitions, as the PSG last season, it was the championship runner-up who faced the winner of the two national trophies. Sunday evening, the PSG won his thirteenth Champions Trophy beating theAS Monaco (1-0) on the lawn of stade 974 of
Doha au Qatar. This edition could be the last in this system.
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A Final Four in January?
Indeed, as reported The Teamwho had already mentioned the possibility of a new format for the
Champions Trophy a few months ago, Vincent Labrunethe president of the Professional Football League
(LFP), would like to change the format of the competition by organizing a Final Fouras is the case in Italy and in
Spain. The sports daily indicates that “ this new Champions Trophy would compete in winter against summer initially for the current one and would now bring together 4 teams, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of
Ligue 1 plus the winner of the French Cup in the form of a mini-tournament with two semi-finals and a final. » This reform aims to ensure the presence of the best teams in the Championship in order to optimize the promotion of the Ligue 1 abroad, launches The Team. The first edition of this new format could take place in Africasince the Democratic Republic of Congo and the
Ivory Coast have already indicated that they would be interested, advance The Team. « But to date, even if this project was presented to the board of directors of the LFP on June 5, nothing has yet been acted upon and decided. Any change in the format of a competition must go through a decision of the CA,” concludes the sports daily.
