UEFA: Champions League on the weekend?

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The UEFA toying allegedly in order to lay the games of the European “king’s class” of the middle of the week on the weekend. The would be to the detriment of the national leagues. There is a resistance.

The debate new formats in football. After the announcement of the beginning of December, 2021 a second Europa League to introduce, discussed the European football Union (UEFA) is now also about to reform the Champions League. According to information from the magazine “Sport-Bild” is considering the possibility of UEFA, the games in the European elite class on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, but on weekends. This is due to the expected higher yields for the UEFA, because the games on Saturday and Sunday, attracted far more viewers in front of the TV than during the week.

National leagues during the week?

The plans are related, allegedly, to the period after 2024. According to UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin two groups of experts are currently working on a Reform of the king class, a decision could perhaps fall 2019. The Look would be the national leagues, which would need to be play in the week or smaller.

“If you want to opt for more international football, that should of course go hand-in-hand with a reduction of games in the domestic leagues,” said Andrea Agnelli, the head of Europe’s club Association ECA. Agnelli calls for, to increase the number of preliminary round matches of the Champions League Instead of eight groups of four there should be four groups of Eight. Each club would then ride 14 instead of the previous six 14 preliminary round games.

DFL rejects proposal

The German football League (DFL) rejected, according to Sport-Bild Plan. “The national competitions of our members are at the center of professional football. A focus of my work will be to secure the necessary space in the calendar, so our leagues and their clubs can develop their own national competitions,” said DFL managing Director Christian Seifert.

sn/asz (sid, Sport-Bild)