The Champions League is closed for the 2024/25 season, with Paris Saint-Germain Victorious, and UEFA has already decided to change the rules for next season
UEFA will make a tweak next season in the Champions League, just a year after the introduction of a completely new format. The Champions League came to his conclusion in Munich on Saturday evening when Paris Saint-Germain rightly claimed their first trophy in the competition by Inter Milan Te Thrashing.
The competition ended the first season of the new league scenery format, which seemed to be a success for UEFA. While the final was one -sided, the organizers of European football still managed to combine the extensive size of 36 teams with many dramatic matches.
But it seems that they are not completely satisfied with their creation, in which 36 teams compete in a competition table phase to decide which parties reach the knockouts.
In the current format, the ranking of a team in the competition phase determines their sowing for the play-off round. It means that the top eight teams get a Bye to the round of 16, where they take a play-off winner and enjoy the home advantage in the second stage.
Home Advantage, however, is decided by random draw after the round of 16 because of the preference of UEFA for an 'open draw', so that teams that performed better in the group phase can be forced to first play the home leg in the quarterfinals or semi-final phase.
That is exactly what happened to Arsenal this season. The Gunners were extremely impressive in the competition phase and finished third, for Real Madrid in 11th and PSG in the 15th, but they were still given away to draws for both the quarterfinals and the semi -final second legs.
Although they really beat 5-1 in total, the side of Mikel Arteta reportedly expressed their displeasure about the situation, because they felt that their consistency in the competition phase was not rewarded in the knockouts.
Their complaints did not fall on deaf ears, where the German newspapers Bild reported that UEFA has decided to change the way they pull the knockout tires. The UEFA Club Competitions Committee met on Friday and reportedly corresponded to the proposed change before the final of the Champions League – and the final approval is now 'considered a formality'.
Other changes were also considered, including continuing directly to penalty shoot-outs instead of extra time and the prevention of two clubs of the same nation to leave the later phases of the competition. However, no consensus was reached about those ideas.
Arsenal was not the only club that became wrong with the 'open' Draw system: Barcelona at home for the first stage of their quarterfinals against Borussia Dortmund, even though he finished second in the competition phase.
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The Gunners were eliminated by final winners PSG in the semi -final, but Arteta refused to accept the French side were the dominant side. '100 percent, I don't think there has been a better team [than Arsenal] In the competition of what I have seen, but we are gone, “he said.
“This competition is about the boxes and in both boxes the strikers and the keepers and those of them were the best in both games.”