“UEFA Champions League” after changing the competition format this season.

The UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League competitions will change their format for the first time in the 2024-25 season, with no group stage and a semi-league format instead.

With the change in the format of the competition, the draw will also be different. Recently, UEFA has explained the rules of the draw in detail before the draw on August 29.

The 2024-25 UEFA Champions League will see the number of teams increased from 32 to 36,

Will divide into four pots based on each country’s coefficient, with “defending champions” Real Madrid automatically qualifying for pot one.

For the draw process , the team name will pick from one pot, for example Real Madrid. Then, 2 teams will be picked from Pot 1, 2 teams from Pot 2, 2 teams from Pot 3, and 4 teams from Pot 4. This means that “Los Blancos” will face a total of 8 teams.

There is a rule that teams from the same country will not meet each other. In addition, they can meet 2 teams from the same league (for example, Real Madrid can meet 2 teams from the English Premier League). That means one team will meet 8 matches (4 home matches, 4 away matches, and only one match per team).

Then, the top 8 teams with the best scores will ufabet https://ufabet999.app advance to the last 16. The 9th-24th places will play home-and-away matches to find the other 8 teams to advance. The teams rank lower than 25th place will eliminate immediately (the score table is measured by all 36 teams).

At the same time, the Europa League will use the same pairing rules as the big cups, while the Conference League will change to meet teams from all 6 pots, with each team only playing 1 game from each pot, resulting in only 6 league rounds.