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This year the Champions League will have a NEW format, Instead of 32 teams split into eight groups of four, there will now be One League consisting of all 36 teamsto reach this stage of the tournament.

Under the new format, teams will play Eight matches in the league. They will no longer play three opponents twice – home and away – but will instead face fixtures against 8 different teams, playing four matches at home and four away.

To determine the eight different opponents, the teams will initially be ranked in four seeding pots.




The DRAW to find out what teams each club will have to face will be TODAY August 29th at 12PM (Eastern Time) Or 6PM (Central European Time)


Here is a Video I found which Explains how this new Season Format:



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Aug 29 2024 01:23am
This is exciting! Hoping to see to good top fights. :thumbsup:

Put the time in my calendar :ph34r: So I don’t miss the draw!


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At a time when more and more teams are complaining about fixture congestion, expanding the champions league is the daftest idea going.

Lets be honest, if you scrap the entirety of pots 3 and 4, no one would give a shit.

Going to make this competition into the biggest mess going that they might actually go full circle and make a competition for just the champions of the top leagues. :lol:
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At a time when more and more teams are complaining about fixture congestion, expanding the champions league is the daftest idea going.

Lets be honest, if you scrap the entirety of pots 3 and 4, no one would give a shit.

Going to make this competition into the biggest mess going that they might actually go full circle and make a competition for just the champions of the top leagues. :lol:


I believe every team deserves to have a chance, just like it happened with Valencia back in 2000s,

Pot 3 & 4 has at least 5 Champions League Winners

PSV // Aston Villa // Crvena zvezda // Celtic // Feyenoord

So It's always good to give these teams a chance at competing, while nowadays football is leaning towards who has the most money, there have been cases like Valencia who manage to make it to finals before, or even in Premier League where Leicester City managed to Win the league even though teams like City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man United, and now New Castle have FAR more advantage.
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Quote (Jagi_Network @ Aug 30 2024 01:43am)


I feel like out of the Pot 1

PSG has the hardest matches out of all of them


Benfica, Club Brugge, Dinamo Kiev, Lille also have though matches as well, Overall I think each Team will play at least 2-4 Complicated Matches (Which is good for viewing) and other 4 Matches that technically should be Easy (it all depends whether its an Away or Home) Match as well, but I actually love this format, in the old format Teams like Barcelona, Madrid, Man City would sometimes only play 1 decent team + 2 free teams (both away and home) this time they HAVE to play at least 3-4 difficult teams.
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Aug 30 2024 01:08am
Decent draw for us, can't complain.
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Quote (DePoRtEd @ 30 Aug 2024 07:50)
I feel like out of the Pot 1

PSG has the hardest matches out of all of them


Benfica, Club Brugge, Dinamo Kiev, Lille also have though matches as well, Overall I think each Team will play at least 2-4 Complicated Matches (Which is good for viewing) and other 4 Matches that technically should be Easy (it all depends whether its an Away or Home) Match as well, but I actually love this format, in the old format Teams like Barcelona, Madrid, Man City would sometimes only play 1 decent team + 2 free teams (both away and home) this time they HAVE to play at least 3-4 difficult teams.


yes, absolutely.
in this system, many "smaller" teams can surprise. PSG really has the toughest draw of the big teams. but Salzburg has it really tough too. Real and the champions from France and Germany. definitely exciting
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Kind of happy with City's group. Could be worse and could be easier :lol:

Quote (Mr_Mill @ 30 Aug 2024 09:08)
Decent draw for us, can't complain.


You shouldn't :lol:
Should be a walk in the park.
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Quote (Magisk @ Aug 30 2024 09:43am)
Kind of happy with City's group. Could be worse and could be easier :lol:



You shouldn't :lol:
Should be a walk in the park.


Still some tricky games there, and our form in Europe hasn't always been the same as our form in the league. But yeah, really can't complain.
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