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UEFA announced a new format for the Champions League: The Swiss model. This strategic decision came after last year’s European Super League initiative. UEFA will try to secure and strengthen
its position against Europewide private league attempts. SO WHAT IS THIS SO-CALLED “SWISS MODEL”? The Swiss-system tournament is familiar to chess, go, and other board game players. It’s a
non-eliminating tournament format that includes a fixed number of rounds of matches. However, within this format, each opponent doesn’t play all against all others. In the chess or go
tournaments, all competitors play versus opponents with similar scores, but they don’t play versus the same opponent more than once. It’s called the Swiss system because it featured in a
tournament first in Zurich in 1895. WHAT WILL CHANGE IN THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE? With the new Swiss model format, Champions League will expand to 36 teams rather than only 32 as it is now. The
clubs will play ten matches against different opponents each time. All 36 teams will be on the same huge league table. So the group stage will stay in the past. However, the participating
teams will not play every other 35 teams. HOW WILL THE FIXTURES BE DECIDED? The participant teams will be ranked 1 to 36 according to their coefficient by the UEFA and assigned five home and
five away games against ten different opponents each time. That means four more matches each time. There will be four pots, with nine clubs in each pot according to their UEFA coefficient.
Pot 1 clubs will draw two other teams from Pot 1 and 4; three from Pot 2 and 3. HOW WILL THE QUALIFYING PROCESS WORK? * The top 8 teams of the new Champions League will qualify directly for
the round of 16. * Teams ranked 9th to 24th in the new league system will compete in a two-legged playoff round. The playoff winners will have the remaining seats in the round of 16. The
losers of the playoffs will continue in the Europe League. * From round 16 onwards, the tournament will return to the old-school Champions League format we used to enjoy. * Teams from 25th
to 36th will be eliminated from Europe just like the 4th-placed teams in the present group stage format. WHEN WILL THE NEW ERA OF THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE BEGIN? UEFA plans to start the new
Champions League in the 2024/25 season. Just like this season, the 2023/24 season of the Champions League will also be in the traditional and fan-familiar format. WHICH TEAMS WILL BE THESE
FOUR NEW EXTRAS? * The first additional team will be the 3rd placed club from the 5th ranked national league, which will probably be France’s Ligue 1. * The second extra team will come via
the so-called “Champions Path” qualifiers. * Wild cards: UEFA will reserve third and fourth additional seats as wild cards. WHO WILL BE THE WILD CARD TEAMS? * European sports fans are
familiar with this wild card system via the EuroLeague Basketball. * UEFA can give the wild cards to the highest coefficient owner clubs which failed to qualify because of their places in
their national leagues. * An English Premier League club of the “Big Six” probably will get one of the wild cards. * However, UEFA can also give it to the champions of lower-ranked leagues,
i.e., Turkish, Danish, or Czech leagues. WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS OF THE SWISS MODEL? * Apart from 4 extra teams, four additional games for each team, and one massive league, the most
significant change will be in the number of games in total. * Almost the participants will play two times more matches. The Champions League will grow from 125 games to 225 with the Swiss
model. * A minimum of four more matchdays will be required to fit these extra games. * To advance to the final, the teams must play at least 17 games. The increasing number of matches can be
considered a big pro not only for the fans but also for the sports media and advertisers because it means more space for the ads and more user time spent on the sports websites. > If it
wasn’t for Broadage, you would see this significant change > in the Champions League format as a con for you because you would > have to adapt all your pages and applications according
to the new > model. However, if you use Brodage’s real-time sports data API and > widgets, you can automatically integrate all of these into your > websites and mobile apps. Thus,
you will reduce the costs of the new > development, UX, and design processes when the tournament formats > change. Besides the quantity of the games, UEFA also aims to increase the
quality of the games. In today’s format, the teams play the last matches of the group stages as a formality without competition. The new Swiss model will change this situation definitely and
bring back the competition to all the games. It sure is a much bigger advantage for all football fans worldwide. WHAT DO PLAYERS THINK ABOUT THE NEW FORMAT? The Europa League and the Europe
Conference League will also be within the Swiss model as of the 2024/25 season. But UEFA hasn’t determined the size of these competitions as of now. As a side note, this is not the first
time the Swiss model has been in the football world. CONCACAF Nations League also played within this format, with four games for each team of 34 nations. Whether your users are fans of the
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