New Champions League Format: Everything you need to know about the 2024/25 campaign

The UEFA Champions League is set to undergo a major change from the start of the 2024/25 season.

The elite European competition is set to be altered, ending a number of years of intense debate over the merits of the changes to the format.

The Premier League could potentially be in line to earn five qualification spots, but there is also a scenario in which there are seven English teams playing in the competition.

The changes are set to be announced by Aleksander Ceferin, who is UEFA’s president, this week, and these alterations could finally put an end to any potential Super League.

The changes are major and could see more meetings between clubs from the same domestic league. Here’s everything you need to know.

There will be four teams added to the tournament, meaning that there will be 36 teams instead of 32 from 2024/25.

That now means that there will be 189 matches in the tournament, rather than 125.

Two of the new four slots will be awarded to countries whose clubs achieve the best collective performance over the previous season.

Based on this season, that would mean an extra place for the Premier League and the Eredivisie in the Netherlands.

UEFA has also confirmed that another place will go to the third-placed league team in the country standing fifth in their rankings – that team would join the third qualifying round.

Another will be awarded to a domestic champion by extending from four to five the number of clubs qualifying via the so-called ‘Champions Path’ play-offs.

The group stage will also be scrapped, and be replaced by a league phase, which has been named the ‘Swiss Model’.

Each team will be playing eight times in the league phase as a minimum, and they will play four at home and four away, on a seeded