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Important modifications

The Súper Champions of 2018 also will change the schedules

Published:31/08/2016 - 17:03h

Updated:31/08/2016 - 17:07h

The important changes that pose for the new model of Champions League from 2018 also would affect to the current schedules of the competition, that have kept immovable of the 20.45 hours for many years

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It does weeks that comes speaking of the remodeling of the UEFA Champions League for 2019, where will happen to the designated Super Champions by the ECA, that wants to increase considerably the income that achieve the clubs in the maximum competition contiental to level of clubs. Some changes that although they touch of full to the roads of access for the liguilla of groups, also will modify the schedules.

And it is that, as it has been able to know by the German magazine "Sport Bild", from 2018 wants to change the immovable during years 20.45 hours by two hours, the 19.00 and 21.00 that already employ in the Europe League. A model that according to the experts has worked and that will give with a greater income in márqueting and sale of the television rights since two teams of the same country could play the same day in the two different turns. This autumn launch to auction the rights of the trienio 2018-2021 and all has to be had for the greater quantity of income of the history of the competition.

A competition that will see changed other appearances after the UEFA and the ECA (European Association of Clubs) arrived to an agreement these days backwards. The clubs, that even proposed desmarcarse of the Champions current and mount a Super European League, have accepted to be still in the competition but with different variants that will favour to the big teams and to the big competitions.

However, still it remains by limar a big aspereza. The idea is that Germany, Spain, England and Italy explain, of direct form and without previous phases, with four teams in the groups of the Champions from 2018. The problem of everything arises in the proposal of the ECA in that this classified chamber was due to historical merits and no to his classification in his respective championships the previous campaign. Something by what the Executive Committee of the UEFA is not at all in favour.

A Champions bigger

It will look for guarantee the presence of four teams of the four more important federations of the ranking (Spain, England, Germany and Italy). The classification would arrive in base to the three first classifications of each League joined to a fourth that would obey to the historical results that a club that have not been able to remain between these three first have had, according to the "big "". For example, with this the Manchester United would be in this Champions 2016-2017.

The four teams of these four federations will classify directly for the phase of groups with the 32 qualifiers. Therefore, of these 32 would be dieciseis those that would come of these four countries, and the another half of the rest of federations. The intermediate federations (Portugal, France and Russia) would have to two clubs each one in the competition remaining four or five places more for the following federations (Ukraine, Belgium, Holland, Turkey and Switzerland) and other five or six for the rest of federations that would classify via the current previous classification, to parties of gone and turn. 

With this system, the Champions 2016-2017 would remain like this: 

SPAIN: FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Madrid and Seville. ENGLAND: Leicester, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United. GERMANY: Bayern, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia M'Gladbach Hamburg. ITALY: Juventus, Naples, Rome and Inter or Milan. FRANCE: Paris Saint Germain and Olympique Lyonnais. PORTUGAL: Benfica and Sporting or Carry. RUSSIA: Cska and Rostov or Zenith. UKRAINE: Dinamo Kiev BELGIUM: Witches. HOLLAND: PSV. TURKEY: Besiktas. SWITZERLAND: Basilea. To add the five remaining teams of the others federations. 

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