One of the most anticipated sporting events of the year will capture the attention of football fans around the world in the coming hours: the 2024/25 Champions League drawWith a new and unprecedented format, fans will have to get used to a new way of watching the most exciting club competition in the world.
What will the 2024/25 Champions League format be like?
The ‘Orejona’ as we usually know it no longer exists. This edition comes with a radical change in the ‘group stage’, which will be renamed ‘league phase’ since the groups will no longer exist.
This first instance will consist of a league phase of 36 teams. In this round, Each team will face 8 different rivals (4 at home and 4 away), adding points under the usual rules of football (3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss). At the end of those eight games, a final points table will be defined with the 36 participating clubs.
According to your position final in the general table, this will be the future of the teams that competed in this instance:
- From 1st to 8th they qualify directly for the round of 16 of the tournament.
- From 9th to 24th They qualify for an ‘elimination play-off’, a kind of round of 32, where each team will face an opponent, and the winners will advance to the round of 16.
- From 25° to 36° will be automatically eliminated from the tournament.
Once the qualifiers for the round of 16 are defined, The rest of the competition will be played as usual.: From the round of 16 to the final, knockout series will be played to determine the champion of the 24-25 edition.
What is the format of the 2024/25 Champions League draw?
To define the ‘fixture’ of each team, except for the champion of the last Champions League (Real Madrid) who will automatically go to Pot 1 as “seeded”, the rest of the participants They will be distributed in four drums, according to the coefficient of each at the beginning of the season.
The clubs will be drawn through a combination of manual and AI: that is, each team will be drawn by physical balls, to which intelligent software will assign two rivals from each drum and it will also affect which teams they will face at home and which ones away. This software will consider that each club can’t face teams from his country (eg. a Spaniard cannot confront another Spaniard), and that can only cross two rivals from the same country (eg. a Spaniard can only face a maximum of two from England).
When is the Champions League 2024/25 draw?
The event will take place this Thursday, August 29from the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, France, starting at 10:00 am from Central Mexico (18:00 local time).
see also
Champions League 2024/25: Match schedule, draws, where the final is and more details
Where to watch the 2024/25 Champions League draw in Mexico?
The event can be followed LIVE in Mexican territory through different screens:
- UEFA TV.
- MAX.
- Hot TV.
- Caliente TV (YouTube channel).
- Hot TV (App).
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2024-08-27 02:30:35