YHere is a new hero. The draw is on Thursday (18: 00 hours) in Manako To launch a new format with 36 teams, four pots and an overall classification that determines the top eight teams that go directly to the eighth.
In the new format of the Champions League, each team of 36 participants, You must face eight different rivals, Four home games and four away games but not against the same opponents, where a four-pot tie will be held to determine the eight competitors; each team will play against two opponents from each pot. It will be on Thursday, but the schedule of matches will not be known until Saturday.
Being the new Champions League
The question is frequent and it must be said that there will be drums (Distributed by the UEFA ranking, except for the Champions League tournament, which always go in Pot 1) There will be an extraction of balls with the name of the teams. This is to be the software from the company iLife that decides the order of the matches and the pitch on which they can be played. That is, the program in question, determines where each team and the opponent in question will play, among the eight that arrive by pure and hard draw.
In this new Champions League format, the first round will take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (So far the Champions League has only been played on Tuesdays and merkols), And it will be the last round with 18 simultaneous matches. The rest of the matches will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In the first stage of the matches (eight) You can’t face teams from the same pas Unless force majeure, competition and draw require it. If necessary, there may be a clash only between teams from the same country and it will affect only associations such as Spanish, English, Italian or German with four or more participants. In the eighth round, the protection of the country is eliminated.
The new Champions League and a new version of their anthem
Draw in the eighth
Once the knockout stages are set up, There will be a final draw to determine the crosses, in the manner of a tennis tournament. The order of the quarterfinal and semifinal matches will be determined by the draw. The teams ranked in the first and second places of the virtual League will only be able to see the faces in the final.
In case of a tie on points it is Overall average The person who determines the order equipos.Su if there is a tie and there is a confrontation between the teams in question, it will be the result that determines which team advances. If there is a draw, but there is no confrontation between them, then the team with the most goals will be ahead of the table.
Before the teams were proposed as opponents, A program check is performed Automated within the application to ensure that a draw can still be completed for each team, so that we avoid an obstruction situation in which subsequent teams do not have valid opponents from each pot.
The final will take place on May 31 at the Allianz Arena in Munich, the home stadium of Bayern Munich.
Europa League and conference
The Europa League draw in which athletic and Real Sociedad will be held will take place on Friday, August 30 (13:00 hrs) and the conference draw in which Betis can be if they pass the preliminary stage on the same day at 14:30.
In the Europa League, the system is identical to the Champions League system, With 36 teams (four at home and four away), the first eight in the ranking will be eliminated to the eighth directly, from the ninth to the 24th they play playoffs in a playoff and from the 25th place.
In the conference League, the teams will be divided into six groups, Each team will face six opponents, one from each pot. The draw begins with pot 1, assigning opponents to all teams, one by one, and continues with the other pots in descending order until opponents are assigned to all teams.
