A conference will take place next week to go over how European club football may look from 2024.
Among the key groups forming the future of European club football states it will oppose Champions League semi-finalists qualifying for the following season’s competition in any new format.
European Leagues, the umbrella body which represents more than 900 clubs in 32 expert leagues throughout the continent, will hold its first working group conference with UEFA next Wednesday on how the international club competitions will look from 2024-25 onwards.
It has been reported that UEFA supports the concept of the Champions League’s final four qualifying for the next season’s competition, instead of just the winners as holds true currently.
Lars-Christer Olsson thinks only the Champions League winners ought to make the right to qualify for the following season’s competition (Jamie Gardner/PA)
European Leagues chairman Lars-Christer Olsson, himself a former chief executive of UEFA, stated that would be a red line for his organisation.
“What we think is OK is the system as it is today,” he stated.
“If the question was, for example, that the semi-finalists in the Champions League should be qualified for next year’s Champions League, we don’t think that is correct. Definitely not.”
One format reported to be under factor to consider is to change the existing group stage with a 32 or 36-team league, in which teams play 10 matches against opposites on a seeded basis in a so-called ‘Swiss system’, with the leading 16 advancing to the knockout stage from February onwards.
That would suggest an extra four matches in the fall compared to now, something Olsson stated was “possible”.
“I think it could be possible to squeeze another four dates into the calendar if we can see what kind of effect it is having on national team matches and other things, but it’s too early to say now, it needs to be part of our negotiations,” he stated.
A different European Leagues working group is consulting with UEFA next Thursday to continue settlements on the financial circulation design for club competition earnings for the 2021-24 cycle, which were stalled in March by the coronavirus pandemic.
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European Leagues favours a boost in uniformity payments to clubs not taking part in European competition, while holding the share of income for clubs in the Champions League group stage at the very same level.
When asked whether that was positive to anticipate the big clubs to anticipate no boost, in the middle of restored reports of a European Super League, Olsson stated: “When it comes to the breakaway matter I have actually remained in football a bit too long maybe, however I have actually been having these conversations every 3rd year since the mid-90s.
” I think the breakaway option is already dead, since there have actually been very clear messages originating from UEFA and from private clubs.
“Generally I think a private league in Europe is probably not going to be successful.”
European Leagues’ approach to the income circulation talks is notified by its Financial Landscape report, which will exist for ratification at its General Assembly on Friday.
It feels that circulation has normally been entering the incorrect instructions in the 2016-2019 cycle, pointing to the fact that European club competition income is having a distortive effect in some locations.
It highlighted the example of Ukraine, where 58 percent of the overall income in the leading flight originated from European competition income, and out of that, 95 percent of it was shared in between just 3 clubs.
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