TWO LIGUILLAS OF 8 TEAMS
The Champions could change of format from 2018
Published:24/03/2016 - 12:35h
Updated:24/03/2016 - 12:35h
A new methodology of two liguillas of eight teams could substitute to the current phase of groups or to the eighth of final, facilitating to the "big "" play between them and giving a greater interest mediático, although for the moment at all is official
As it has informed in the last hours "MD", the UEFA would be posing seriously the possibility to change the current format of the Champions League and delete the current phase of groups and/or the round of the eighth of final of the competition, organising to the teams in two liguillas of eight clubs so that of this form produce more direct clashes between the big teams of the European continent before arriving to the final phases of the competition.
This initiative, that could carry out from the season 2018-19, would guarantee more crashes mediáticos in the UEFA Champions League and, therefore, more income so much for the competition as for the big clubs that participate in her. This yes, desconoce to day of today how would reach the phase of the liguilla of eight teams, how would appoint the distinct heads of series, which teams would play it directly and what others through previous eliminations and a long etcetera by desgranar.
Other sources suggest, always according to the quoted Catalan newspaper, that these two liguillas would relieve to the eliminatory of eighth of final (16 teams) that in the actuality is to double party with direct elimination of the loser. To the European clubs more powerful would not finish them to like the current format, since several important clubs fall in the eighth or quarter-finals in function of the pairings that dén, as it has happened him some time to Paris Saint-Germain or to the Manchester City when they have had to confront to the FC Barcelona in said rounds.
This year it has him sucedido to Chelsea front the PSG, and also to the Juventus in front of the Bayern Munich. For the moment only it would be a proposal that would not have been accepted still by the UEFA, but the reality is that distinct representatives of powerful clubs of Europe would consider that the current system of the UEFA Champions League has remained already desfasado, having the will to renew it so that it was more attractive for the viewers and also more beneficial for the clubs, especially for the richest.
The subject Would be arguing in the Commission of Clubs and in the own Executive Committee, but some sources signal that "it still remains long until in the 2018 of start a new cycle of competition". desconoce, therefore, if they will produce or no notable changes in the operation of the Champions.
