Liverpool have formally licensed for subsequent season’s Champions League, nevertheless it’s going to look tons fully totally different to their closing experience inside the opponents.
The Reds have mathematically licensed for the very best 4, meaning they’re once more consuming at Europe’s prime desk after a season out.
It’s a primary enhance for the membership and the incoming supervisor, who can be the primary man after Jurgen Klopp to steer Liverpool inside the Champions League since 2014/15.
UEFA have sought to change the format from subsequent season, you’ll have the ability to guess why, and so proper right here’s all you may need to know regarding the changes.
The ‘league half’
From 2024/25, the number of golf gear will rise from 32 to 36 inside the ‘league half’ (former group stage), with each crew having fun with eight video video games inside the preliminary stage.
Teams shall be ranked in 4 seeding pots, and each membership shall be drawn to play two opponents from each of these pots, primarily creating 4 groups of 9.
The seeding for these pots are determined totally by a membership’s UEFA coefficient.
The teams will, nonetheless, be ranked in a single desk to seek out out who progresses to the knockout ranges.
Half the video video games shall be carried out at dwelling and the alternative half away, with no repeat fixtures – and the final word standings will determine who progresses.
UEFA opted for this route to increase the number of aggressive video video games on the earliest various.
Knockout ranges
The outcomes of each ‘league half’ match will resolve the overall ranking, with the very best eight sides robotically qualifying for the spherical of 16.
Teams who finish ninth to twenty fourth will compete in a two-legged knock-out half play-off to protected a spot inside the closing 16.
And finally, people who finish twenty fifth or lower shall be eradicated and received’t drop down into the Europa League, as now we have now been accustomed to.
Inside the playoff, teams who accomplished between ninth and sixteenth shall be seeded and may face a crew positioned seventeenth to twenty fourth with the return leg at dwelling.
People who prevail will meet one in every of many top-eight finishers inside the closing 16, who shall be seeded for this tie.
From the spherical of 16 onwards, the opponents will revert to its present format as a lot as and along with the final word.
On this new format, a crew may play a potential 17 video video games on the best way by which to the final word, in comparison with the utmost of 13 inside the current format.
Key dates
With an increase inside the number of video video games, there are only a few additional dates to take heed to subsequent season with regards to attracts and fixtures:
League draw – August 29
Matchday 1: September 17-19
Matchday 2: October 1/2
Matchday 3: October 22/23
Matchday 4: November 5/6
Matchday 5: November 26/27
Matchday 6: December 10/11
Matchday 7: January 21/22
Matchday 8: January 29
Play-off draw – January 31
Knockout play-offs: February 11/12 and 18/19
Closing 16/quarter-final/semi-final draw – February 21
Closing 16: March 4/5 and 11/12
Quarter-final: April 8/9 and 15/16
Semi-final: April 29/30 and May 6/7
Closing: May 31 (Munich)
