DECRYPTION – PSG, Monaco, Lille and Little Thumb Brest are starting their journey this week in a new C1 format.
Brand new, brand new? Brand new, that’s for sure. The Champions League is getting a makeover. Decreed in 2021 and enacted in 2022, the new format of the C1 comes into force for the 2024-2025 campaign. More clubs involved, more matches, more big matches, and the promise of an even more delicious competition. And this despite a concern for readability and forgetting that the calendars were already too busy…
« UEFA has clearly shown its commitment to respecting the fundamental values of sport and to defending the key principle of open competitions, with qualification based on sporting merit, in line with the values and the European sporting model based on solidarity. »declared the president of the European body, Aleksander Ceferin, when this shift was unanimously validated by the UEFA Executive Committee. « Further proof that European football is more united than ever »he added.
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