The Future of Champions League is Doomed 

UEFA copyrighted and blocked this video worldwide. At 3:35, it cuts randomly because I needed to remove that segment for you guys to be able to watch the video. Screw UEFA.

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old format=good new format= i have no fucking idea whats going on Screw UEFA

The old format was so perfect. This sucks. Screw Uefa.

this is just giving underdogs no chance #screwUEFA

Screw ueafa and ea

they've done that with the World Cup of 2026 aswell. Everytime there are changes, there are changes to a bunch of competitions at once. They just want the green paper. That's it.

UEFA you didn't do well to abandon the traditional format. The old format was more entertaining.

Man UEFA is making the UCL AND FOOTBALL in general worse

I can see the appeal of the new format but i have no fucking clue how do the other 4 teams getinto Champions Screw Uefa

At least they should have divided teams into two league tables (with 18 teams each) to make them look more like a national league table, 36 team table looks very exhausting Plus there is no need of a league system for Europa League and Conference League

It would've honestly been better if they added one more team to each group in the current UCL format. That way, you have 5 teams fighting for 3 spots, including the UEL spot, and 2 teams just go home.

Thing that really irked me at the time was that everyone was hating on the super league a few years ago even tho it was already in place to change the Champions League format. It screws over teams almost as much as the super league but all the hate from the super league allowed this to happen 🤦🏽‍♂️

Bro you deserve more recognition, your videos are very engaging for someone with less than 1k subscribers, also, screw uefa for copyrighting small channels

I hate the new format 🔥🔥

More Games more Injuries, Champions leagues won’t feel as special anymore

Screw UEFA

Terrible format. This new format has two main functions. 1. more games = more money. 2. Makes it easier for bigger teams to stay in the competition longer. No more Liverpool or Barca or some other underperforming "big" club dropping down and out of the competition early. With 8 different teams to play in the group stage it's highly likely these bigger teams will be making it out of the groups every year, which is of course what UEFA wants cause the longer the big teams stay in the more money UEFA makes. because even if out of those 8 games you play 2 top teams that still gives you 6 very winnable games to get enough points to advance and that's assuming you lose both of the big games. and we all know EUFA "random" draw will never match up most of the big teams into one group. Screw EUFA.

What is mbappe doing on that thumbnail 😂 like what did bro do

The Super League proposal now is not closed, it's open. Every day UEFA makes sure the Super League gets new fans. In fact, if the format is open, I prefer the Super League.

Dude, you are really good at this. Last 2 videos are very entertaining and kept me engaged.

The problem with the super league wasnt just that it was a closed system, but that it was done with the almost intent to bankrupt domestic leagues because they wouldnt agree to make the prem a closed league system. As much as I dont like FIFA or UEFA, atleast they sort of protect the mobility aspect of the game.

I have no idea why clubs can't drop to UEL or UECL. That would give UEFA more money because of more games

the super league did not die it is still looming ,it's the whole reason why they came up with the ridiculous new format as a last ditch effort to stop it

I haven't figured out the new CL format yet, but I have enough time until September.

As if having players play 70+ games every other season wasn't enough, they decided it would be a great idea to INCREASE the number of games?? More matches during the season = more training = more travelling = more INJURIES Not to mention, preseason is also getting longer and requires even more travelling across the continents (jet lag) Next season is going to be CHAOS. After Euros/CA, there's Olympics in a months time for some youngsters, then preseason starts in Asia and North America, then travel back to Europe to play longer format of UCL, league and cup matches, then possibly CWC in the summer of 2025?? UEFA and FIFA are pathetic

To be fair, the format is changing ever since 93, group stage in quarters, then added semi finals, then group stage at round of 16, then non champions entering, then 24 teams group stage, then 32 teams group stage, then second group stage, then that was cut, and now we have this... thing

25/26: teams now play 12 matches in the league stage 26/27: teams now play 18 matches in the group stage 27/28 we removed the knockout phase and the winners will be the club with the most points in the league phase 28/29: we reduced the number of clubs from 36 to 18 29/30: clubs now play eachother home and away

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To make the format easier to understand increase the champions league to 48 teams. 12 groups of 4 like the euros. The top 8 third place teams are in pot 2 and the remaining teams go to the Europa League. Same allocation with the winner of the conference league getting a berth. For the remaining 15 teams associations ranked 6-21get an extra spot in the qualifiers. I'd also add a rule(this won't happen)that says a Champions League squad must consist of no less than 15/23 of your players being homegrown. Expand the number of substitutes to 7 and 8 if its during extra time. Teams need to be using their entire bench more to rotate their squad.

such an American take. Everybody in the world knows the highest prestige in football is the World Cup. It has been like that forever and will stay that way. Your argument could apply to the Europa league . Are you going to say that’s better too ?

screw uefa

The clubs that pitched the Super League wanted more money, after UEFA refused to increase the price money. I personally want the clubs to make more money instead of UEFA hogging the huge chunk of profits they currently do. Now UEFA adopted the dumb structure of the super league without really upping the prize money 🤣🤣

The group stage is pretty boring to be fair and anyone that doesn’t like the new format is a nostalgia merchant (i’m English before everyone believes the idiot in the comments)

I calculated it and there will be 173 matches in the new format, if we take a average of 95 playing minutes per game we get 16435 minutes of ucl watch time. With that time you can watch exactly 1 half of a ucl match everyday of the year and still have around 10 minutes of match time left 💀

Why!? The best thing abt CL groups is that you can still play Europa or Conference league. But noe yiu don't. SCREW UEFA

This "table" thing is okay-ish, since it just compares group results against each other. The stupid thing is taking more teams and adding more matches. It's dropping it's value, for real

Football was a game that everyone can pick up the rules and enjoy in a short time like 3 years ago. Now the rules are getting more and more complicated and I bet the referees don’t even know what the offside rule is. This makes football more difficult to understand and takes away some of the beauty of the game

0:51 Argentina beats Brazil, City and Madrid 😎

i actually like this format better

I'm still struggling to get my head around the new champions league format, I don't even like calling the UEFA champions league the champions league when there is teams that aren't champions of their own leagues in the competition, I'm hating the over commercialization of the game day by day

We need 4th UEFA competition.

Do i love the new format? No Do i would still watch the game? Yes Screw Uefa? More like screw the players but fuck eufa.

This is shit screw uefa forever this is giving me headaches like I never had before

The format was broken though. Seeding teams in groups of 4 ends up in uncompetitive fixtures and lots of predictable outcomes. This format at least guarantees more marquee fixtures earlier on

I already stopped watching the Champions League anyways because of all the money fuckery.

Screw Uefa, but I thought when you lose the play-off match that you would go to the europa league

The format is pretty bad. But I don’t even like the whole coefficient stuff. They could’ve given the extra 4 spots and distributed them as automatic spots to associations 5-8, making their UCL team count go from 2.5 to 3.5, if you’re gonna include the format, at least do that. I don’t want to look at a coefficient table and rely on my rivals just to make UCL football. The format is so dumb, but they could’ve done the allocations of the 4 extra spots so much better FYI: screw UEFA

SCREW UEFA, THE OLD FORMAT IS BETTER

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The format is easy to understand but people just don't want to do it and would rather complain even though it's better than before. Except if it's group of death, nobody wathches matchdays 5 and 6 since it's already decided who advances. Also it gives more chances to qualify but still people complain about not giving chance to smaller teams (Bologna - 5th in Italy, Brest - 3rd in France + one additional team from play offs)

New format is terrible for the smaller clubs who needs the money from Europa League & Conference League to improve...

Great video man. Here’s so you don’t have to do math 🎉 (subbed)

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The format of the UCL was crap. It was mostly predictable. The top two almost always go through with ease. The knockout is when it gets interesting. The best Champions league was when they had the second group stages. All four were good teams. Then the knock out stage.

uefa are only doing this format because they don’t want the actual super league to happen

Bro 8 to 24th team play off in single leg or two leg ?

Remember me when you become famous

The quality of games are going to be so much better now that the players that are already over-playing now get to play even more yippee!

I won’t be surprised if future players retire early like at age 29 or 30 because of too many matches.

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I'm gonna bet that this new "format" will last for one season only

Great vid but isn’t this a re upload ? Edit: also watching this as a Villa fan who was thinking “I’ll be happy if we finish top 3 in our group” to be reminded there’s no more groups and no more demotion to Europa 😢

4 extra spots explained 1.there is a European league rankings called the association coefficient, based on the last 5 years the league ranked 5th (France) will gain an extra spot 2.qualifiers has 2 paths Champion path and League path, an extra team will qualify from the champion path (5 lower ranked champions will enter through the path) 3 and 4.back to the coefficient league ranking stuff the top 2 ranked leagues for that year will gain an extra spot (Italy and Germany) hope this helps

Just wait until we get big fixtures in beginning and then see how people will start loving this format it’s like you can see arsenal vs real madrid and mancity vs leverkusen in beginning only damn imagine those games ☠️☠️

I bet the next generation will act like the new champions league format is like 1+1 Edit:screw them

what a great format! surely we arent gonna see every world class player destroy their ACL and ruin their career for some cash they will never see........

i ate a cat

I have been playing with the new format on football manager for the past 2 years, it’s okay honestly I mean I hate how you can’t drop down to other competitions like 3rd in UCL goes to UEL and etc. it’s debatable

Screw uefa

Just one quick correction, the champions league is not adding additional games to the teams that finish mid table in the champions league, they are simply making it so that teams that finish top third skip that round. The round of 16 is in both the old and new formats.

Let's give it a try first, ok? Still screw UEFA and screw FIFA but for different reasons.

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It's hard to see how it works. If a club wins their first 4 games for example, doesn't that mean they are already basically through in the top 8? Doesn't that make their last 4 games pretty irrelevant?

more games more injuries, not liking this new UEFA format

Can I get a shoutout? SCREW UEFA

SCREW UEFA! I still don't know how they pick the new 4 teams haha

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A team like "their labor cousin“😂

Football isn’t basketball

The superleague isn't dead. It's more alive than ever actually. UEFA and FIFS lost a court case against the superleague. Reports came out that almost 30-50 teams are ready to join the superleague starting next season, including premier league big six teams who came out publicly rejecting the superleague because the league threatened them. Also this new UCL format came out AFTER the new superleague format but the ucl one is just way worse lol removing subsequent competitions. The superleague has relegation so even partnered teams are not a guarantee. Also adding to the fact that FIFA changed the club world cup format for next season making it way bigger, just makes you look at UEFA and FIFA like ?????? The thing with the superleague and ucl is money. The champions league winner can get awarded around 150M for their whole run, while some mid-table prem teams get awarded more just for existinhey. This would change with the superleague and it would be free to watch. The only thing stopping the superleague right now is the name. They have to re-brand because it has the same name as the Turkish superleague so, don't take anything as set in stone yet.

Football just going to a bad place rn, both Clubs competitions and national team competitions. It was already impossible for smaller teams to win the UCL it was changed from the european cup to UCL. Youd only see the same rich teams from the same countries always in the finals, like youd never see aston villa, celtic, etc, again. And this is making it worse.

This would be good if they get rid of UEL and UECL

new format is ok, i play it on fm, but old format is goated

Old format: 96 Group games New format: 144 Group games + 16 extra knockout games (160 total) The greed is insane.

Bro why why why this is not Prem league why are they dping this the old format was 1000% better, with the gorups it was more exiting because you know the goal differences the little points that the little teams needed to qualify for the knockout stages, thats what made UCL more exiting (bc fairytale runs). Now it is just money dumping teams that are gonna win SCREW UEFA

I mean it's not bad but I think this is probably more entertaining

Technically the Champions League started in 1992-3, before that it was the European Champions Cup, with the winners of all of the leagues of Europe from the previous season, and a simple elimination format. IMHO that was better, but resulted in a lot fewer games, so not good for TV revenue, which kind of tells you what is driving the new format. It'll be greeeaaat though. Imagine endless games of Real Madrid etc playing some team you never heard of, from a city you never heard of in a country you never heard of. Fabulous.

Champions League should be renamed imho. How can you call it "Champions" League and look for "best club team in Europe" when you allow teams other than champions of their leagues to compete. I mean, "Champions" league will have 5 or possibly even 6 teams from one league enter next year (Bundesliga). That is a 1/3 of that league that is going to enter the "Champions" League. Sorry, but Dortmund, Leipzig, Bayern, Stuttgart and possibly Eintracht aren't champions.

Because you somehow think the current format is interesting? More straightforward for sure but it now boils down to whom of Real Madrid or Manchester City will win. Not even Bayern can keep up with these. Also similar concerns were expressed about the expansion to 32 teams and guess what? The older fans didn't like it but the new gen fans who hadn't experienced anything else lapped it up. Now any suggestion that the competition should be for champion teams only is greeted with scorn.

Yeah, but national teams have to only use what they can use so that’s why the World Cup is harder because national teams only have the players they have

Sauing champions league is better than world cup is so fckin dumb

Screw those greedy people

The old format is better. Screw Uefa

Screw Uefa & it's convoluted format😂

why are they expanding the ucl it’s called champions league and second 90 percent teams aren’t even league champions 😂😂😂

screw UEFA reasons i hate it reasons way too many spots go to the big top 5 league like 5 free spots is bullshit, secondly their would most likely have more injuries, thirdly managers and the team have too many matches to play, fourthly it will need more squads player aka more salaries and players to keep happy, fifthly you will need a second team to keep up with all these matches and sixthly the weaker teams i would say have less chances to win it if you don't understand all of this football aint for ya sorry to tell you

this anoying fifa guy again?

Still think some clubs should drop to the Europa league