Kaveh Solhekol explains the new Champions League format 

Short answer: More money Long answer: more money!!!!!!

Why not show an example of it on that screen!!

So essentially the super league but controlled by the uefa

More games more injuries more top players being injured all for the sake of a profit

UEFA - "Hmm things are simple. How do we make it complicated?"

2:17 yes but she asked how the fans feel not the clubs

More games. No wonder Klopp is tired

So managers don’t want this and players don’t want it but it will go ahead regardless?

Are they going to expand the squad size as well? It's all well and good saying that the clubs are playing an additional 2 games, but if you're still limited to a squad of 25 players in both the Premier League and UEFA competitions, we're going to see more and more injuries piling up for teams. Especially if we do get that additional place in the Champions League as it'll mean 8-9 teams playing in Europe (depending on this season and where teams could potentially finish) so almost half of the league would have players being made to play 2 games a week for most of the season (between Europe, League, Carabao and FA Cups)

The home and away games are what fans look forward to

What he means to say: American owners looking to change Europe in to a franchise, closed system.

"see what you've done there it's sneaky" 😂😂

"Let's have then stand in front of the big screen over there and explain the new format." "Good idea, and show an example of it on the screen?" "Nah, just a static shot of the badges"

It’s not a champions league though is it? It hasn’t been since they decided to allow multiple sides from the big 5 leagues to the competition. It’s essentially going to be the UEFA Super League

Do you remember playing fifa career mode and in ucl you faced a team who used to giveaway you a free win because they didn’t had enough players fit to have a playing 11. That will happen in games like fa cup, carabao cup, copa del rey etc.

Never mentioned the media making more money through ridiculous amounts of advertising.🤔

Bring back the european cup. Notts forest beating malmo. Alex ferguson rain soaked anorak. Jumpers for goalposts.

Better for teams outside top 5 leagues

I like champions league group stages as its nice to have some easy games to put your feet up. This year teams are tired from playing extra 15 mins of football.

“The clubs will be happy as they have 2 extra games” 🤔

As long as we still got Basel happy days

Let teams have many players in the squad so that they can rest or rotate

the prem clubs in europe mainly the champions league will either drop the efl cup by withdrawing or play the kids in the tournament

Draw will play an important part. Home game is key since each team will meet 8 different opponent

"Explains." They stand in front of that big screen and do not use any graphics/visuals at all, then deliver what is a far from coherent nor articulate description of the new format.

What was wrong with the old European,Uefa and Cup Winners cup competitions ?

1:24 Wow that's crazy, I've never seen a league table shown with the top half and bottom half separately. Not even on teletext in the old days and certainly never on Sky Sports.

The new format is design to allow the top teams playing each other before the knockout stages to generate more TV money while give these team enough games against "low ranked" teams that they still have a good chance to qualify. Only thing is with 36 teams in 4 pots that 9 team per pot so I assume when you try to draw games for teams in same pot they are going to have to find a extra team from another pot. Also, I wonder how long it is before each teams simply qualify through their domestic league/cups for european football. Then the clubs EUFA co-efficient determines what EUFA competition that is.

I just wish the English league would therefore change the structure. The EFL cup was basically brought in to counter the introduction of the European competitions in the 50s. Now we have 3 clear tiers of European competition, have teams who qualify for them NOT enter the EFL cup, then the extra 2 games in effect just replace 2 'lost' EFL cup games. No change then really. Also the EFL cup be a bit interesting being a 'best of the rest'.

36 teams involved. Top 8 teams qualify for next round. Teams that finish in ninth and 24th, go to play off in 2 legged tie. Any team that finishes 25th or under are out, with no place in europa league. League phase ranking will play a part.

I think this new format has potential to freshen up the competition & combat the threat of the ‘ Super League’ plus it’s stops the stupid 3rd place team dropping into another competition which I’ve never liked , you should only compete in 1 of the 3 competitions

This sounds pretty fun compared to the current format, the current group stage is too long winded just facing the same 3 teams for 4 months so I like the look of this.

Did we have to change it?

Thanks, i was waiting for an answer for 2 year

I've definitely been feeling home-away game fatigue this season. Especially when it's very weak teams with no chance.

By half way of the league, top 3 or 4 will be about safe in the final top 8 and the bottom 3 or 4 will be just about out. The others will be playing for something at least until game 6 or 7. Group stage this season was poor and settled early, this will be an improvement.

One word = greed

Thus is good for big teams who can afford many more top players and a deep squad. For smaller teams its a disaster cause they wont be able to rotate players like the big teams can.

Brilliant summary Exciting!

I thought there will be a visual or something

Owners want to make more money. But if changes implemented are going to cost fans more money, fans aren't going to continue spending and supporting blindly.

I think the extra games against potentially weaker opposition incentives coaches to play more academy players too. If nothing else for the sake of rotation which to me is 100% a good thing.

As meddling with winning formats goes, i like it. What would of been the 3rd or even 4th place teams could still have something to play for in the final 8th game as its based on their positions in the league table not the table of four teams.

I get all that, but what about the 35th team and 36th team, how are they decided if as normal they are top of the domestic league then whi get those spots?

He had me till he said “If Arsenal Wins the UCL” 😂

Bring the 3 foreigner rule back and that will snooker the bigger clubs

Time to find a new spot to watch

I don't know if this new format will wort out,but it seems we can have better and more competitive matches. Let's wait for the next season.

I like the sound of the change tbh just will take time to adapt to it. Will make Group stages a little more exciting. Squads for the big teams need to be bolstered in depth to cope with the extra games. I do have some sympathy for the players/managers but they earn enough in their short career, suck it up.

Reduce that to 20 teams and I am in. Quality over quantity.

I love the background noise

UEFA Champions League Qualifications start as early as June for most Eastern European Countries for their Leagues. They have to play and win to get to the Champions League, winning their League does not guarantee them a spot. This needs to be addressed. The Co-efficient needs to be checked again.

Good in terms of profit

I like the idea of playing different teams each time but you could have done that and not expanded to 36 teams. Just keep 32 teams and do this same format...not sure I get the point of going to 36 teams. 6 games against 6 different opponents instead of the same 3 home and away I do like. It also makes for games mattering on the last fixture day , usually half the groups are already decided before the 6th game. Like the overall change just don't understand why go to more teams and 8 games instead of 6 using the new format.

So this is why teams have been stacking up players

Can someone help me out do 8th place make europe or not

Go back to the champions of each league just playing each other , that was the champions league or European cup

Play FM24 ya will understand it no issues :P

This was all revealed over a year ago. The only change is they are dropping the word Europa from the Conference League. And yes people were hating on the Super League but UEFA condemned it not for the good of the game but because they want to do it, and now have 😅.

Football fans have always been allergic to change so this was never going to go over well no matter what they did (just think of how long it took to get goal line technology and VAR into the sport). I think in theory the new format should be just fine, Swiss system has existed for a long time and been proven to work as it's a quite effective way to fairly accurately rank a large collection of competitors without having to have everyone play each other. The distribution of 4 pots based on coefficient where everyone plays 2 team per pot is a little bit odd, normally you'd play teams with the same current win/loss record as yourself but I guess it wouldn't work logistically for an event this big to have a fluid schedule like that. I think people just need some time to get used to it. It's not a new system by itself, it's just new to football.

Unless away goals come back in the knockout games it’s not better.

Lots of big teams is going to lost small games because of unjury

Its nice when new leagues come out its incredible 😁

The fact he even mentioned 1 game final 💀

2040: Son in 2024 Champions' League became a netflix series

The Champions Hockey League (Champions League for European Ice Hockey) did this format this season for the first time. It produced a Swiss champion for the first time and the previous champions got knocked out in the league stage. Gave a lot of variety. 6 games (3 home, 3 away) against 6 different teams. Exciting format. Whether it will translate well to the Champions League is the main question.

Could of just added an extra team in each group with the best third placed teams advancing to knockouts along with first and second.

I'm actually looking for to it. That sounds good

Making cartel of big club instead of making equal to all👎👎. what a shameless system

If it ain't broken don't fix it

My only gripe with the new format is that I think a sharper cut-off should be made. Instead of allowing places 9-24 to progress, it ought to be 9-18. Under the current system, the risk of dropping out is too insignificant, which also makes the first round relatively insignificant.

If super league were smart they should come in with a revised league and just mirror the current champions league format bring back away goals agree to air more free games and drop the merit ish and split all the money evenly

So its a Super League.

They still haven’t explained how the “8 League games” are chosen?

00:22 Yeah it's so true. The group stage has matches that are predictable/boring etc... (around half of them)

Also screw the super league. Football is not only about the big teams and the big games if you support a struggling team and they pull off a big win it’s a great feeling and football moment.

No the simple answer is...more money😂

Money money money money That's all I'm hearing 😐

I think this format could be good for Celtic and Rangers as it could give them a chance to get into the play-off stage (9th to 24th) as they would have been reasonable a chance of beating their two Pot 4 opponents and getting something against the Pot 3 sides rather than as it is now - going out by not being able to win a single game since they would get two very strong sides in Pot 1 and Pot 2 and at best maybe get a win against their Pot 3 opponent which at best means the Europa League, now both have a chance of making the 2nd stage.

M O N E Y i just saved you seven minutes

As a Man United fan, this is not relevant for us to watch.

Did she really ask if this will start in April? The season finishes in May and then the season starts in September!. Ffs sky, get somebody who understands football instead of ticking boxes!

I think when she asked the when will it start question she was referring to qualifying matches

Oh my. This could be great :)

Football is dying 😢

Just play some football manager. We've been waiting for this now for a couple of years and it's way better

The League Cup needs to be made exclusive to non-PL clubs. English clubs already play too many games compared to other European leagues

Crazy

Time when there was two group stages

Thanks for the explanation. Still don’t understand!

Who are they addressing player fatigue and their contract?

why are they standing in front of the screen with no graphics to support? Just sit at a desk if you're not going to make use of the tech. Even Sky's visuals team don't understand what's going on...🙄

The change of formation don’t have a problem with,the number of teams I do have a problem with.

Feel like this helps domestic league teams as teams not in the European Comp should be able to fight for the title as the top teams have to many games.

No budget for graphics or charts or even any sort of visual map?

Explains the new Champion's League format: Laughs in Football Manager

The old format wasn't broken. Why fix it?? (I know, more money)

Now they need increased squad size

Can we all go back to Eric Cantona quotes again? I guess he was right all along . They kills us of the sport for bees and honey .

I love Europa and Conference matches more than Champions!