European Leagues: first discussions on the Champions League format from 2024-25

European Leagues welcomes the "consultation process led by UEFA" on the format of the Champions League from the 2024-25 season onwards, according to the organization after a board meeting and general assembly held on 05/02/2021.

European Leagues considers that "the vision based on the so-called 'Swiss Model' is an improvement compared to the more radical proposals that emerged in 2019 (the possibility of moving from 8 groups of 4 clubs to 4 groups of 8 clubs with 14 matches guaranteed in the group stage instead of 6 was mentioned).

This new format devised by UEFA (see below) is a type of league that would comprise 36 clubs divided into four groups of nine. The first four countries in the UEFA ranking (Spain, England, Italy and Germany on 08/02/2021) would keep their four automatically qualified clubs, but France, currently in fifth place, would have three guaranteed places, according to the French sports daily L'Équipe on 06/02/2021.

"The so-called 'Swiss system' is a very interesting system. The credit of this idea has to be given to one of our members of the ECA at AFC Ajax…