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Fuckin hell, The Dealer would be proud of this formatting.
Anyway came here to say that I can’t help but like what Brighton have done.
Assuming the PL gets a 5th CL spot, the current top 5 looks a good bet. Obviously a lot can happen, but I don’t see any of the other teams breaking 75 points, so one of the current top 5 would have to fall off significantly.
Assuming the PL gets a 5th CL spot, the current top 5 looks a good bet. Obviously a lot can happen, but I don’t see any of the other teams breaking 75 points, so one of the current top 5 would have to fall off significantly.
I give your response 3.5 out of 10.
Actually looks like bloody Sudoku
When you think we yield about 6M revenue per home game, those extra games are massive for us. Critical we qualify
Whereas Real Madrid, Bayern and City will have seen it all before I suppose
"Lord Ceferin, please.. no more..."100 Additional games? What the fuck??
"100 more games!"
"But a Eintract Frankfurt player just suffered a cardiac event on the field due to the extra games!"
"MORE FOOTBALL! MORE MONEY!"
That's probably how it went when they pitched the added games.
Champions League format: How it will work from 2024-25
UEFA has confirmed how the Champions League (UCL) will look from the 2024-25 season. Here's a full breakdown of what it means.
From next season, 36 clubs will take part in the Champions League and they will all be in one big league table.
The 36 teams will be divided into four pots of nine.
Each club will be drawn to play two teams from each pot -- one home, one away. So, unlike in the current format, a club in Pot 1 will play a game against two other clubs from Pot 1.
From the final table, the top eight go direct to the round of 16.
Positions nine to 24 will enter a playoff to earn the other eight places in the round of 16.
There will be only one knockout-round draw for the round of 16 onwards, with teams seeded based upon their final league-phase position
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It means it's important where you finish in the table; the higher you are, the more favourable knockout route you will have -- on paper at least.
Unlike in previous seasons, there is no drop down of teams from the Champions League to the Europa League.
How the Premier League can get 5 Champions League places next season
The UEFA Champions League has a whole new look for next season -- but teams need to take notice this season. This is how qualifying has changed.
Who gets the four extra UCL places?
2 places will go to the best performing leagues in Europe in this current season. The place goes to the next team in the league which has not automatically qualified. Last season, that would have been Liverpool and Atalanta. These places are most likely go to clubs from the top leagues.1 place will go to the third-placed team in the league ranked fifth in the UEFA coefficient (this is effectively the average performance of all its clubs in Europe.) Last season that was France, so Marseille would have gone direct to the UCL group phase, with Stade Rennais promoted from the Europa League into UCL qualifying. However, the Netherlands overtook France into fifth at the start of this season, so the Eredivisie could get the extra place for the 2024-25 domestic season.
1 place will go to the qualifying path for champions. Four teams used to come through this route into the league phase, but from next season it will be five. The place cannot go to a team from the top 10 leagues as their champions do not go through qualifying.
How can five teams qualify for the Champions League?
The two leagues that have the best coefficients this season will get an extra place in the UCL group stage next season.The good news for the Premier League is it has been in the top two in six of the past seven seasons.
2016-17: Spain and England
2017-18: England and Spain
2018-19: England and Spain
2019-20: Spain and Germany
2020-21: England and Spain
2021-22: England and the Netherlands
2022-23: England and Italy
So the Premier League is pretty much nailed on for five UCL places?
English clubs have been dominant and have comfortably been in the top two leagues in the past three seasons. It's looking good, but there's a twist.The Premier League will have eight clubs in Europe this season, as West Ham United won the UEFA Europa Conference League and didn't qualify for Europe domestically; it means every win by an English club will be worth slightly less to the coefficient score because it's an average of eight clubs rather than seven.
The last time England had eight clubs in Europe, in 2015-16, it only finished third in the season's coefficient ranking -- though both Southampton and West Ham failed to make it through the qualifying rounds. This season, all eight teams will take part in the group stages of one of the three competitions.
England's position was further strengthened when LaLiga side Osasuna failed to make the group stage of the Europa Conference League. On only two occasions in the past eight seasons has a league finished in the top two coefficient places without a full set of teams in the group stage -- both times being the Premier League: 2018-19 (Burnley did not qualify), 2015-16 (West Ham did not qualify.)
All things considered, it would take a very poor season for the Premier League not to get five places. Brighton & Hove Albion and Villa, along with Newcastle United who could be handed a difficult Champions League group, would have to struggle badly to put England's fifth spot in serious doubt.
All things considered, it would take a very poor season for the Premier League not to get five places. Brighton & Hove Albion and Villa, along with Newcastle United who could be handed a difficult Champions League group, would have to struggle badly to put England's fifth spot in serious doubt.
I have sense of foreboding...
I have sense of foreboding...
How can extra games cause a cardiac event?
It doesn’t in any way whatsoever
So it could come down to the luck of the draw.