TASS, May 2. Five German teams will compete in the 2024/25 Champions League football season. This became known after the victory of Borussia Dortmund over the French Paris Saint-Germain (1:0) in the first match of the semi-finals of the championship.
Additional quotas in next season’s Champions League are given to clubs that took the first two places in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) coefficient table at the end of the last season . Germany got at least second place at the end of this season. Before that, Italy received an additional quota in the Champions League for the next season.
Therefore, Germany in the next tournament will be represented by Bayer, Bayern, Stuttgart, Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund, who won the tournament in front of the table. From the Italian Championship, places in Europe’s most prestigious club competition are currently guaranteed by national champions Inter and Milan.
If Atalanta do not reach the top five teams in the Italian Championship but win the Europa League, six Italian teams will play in the next Champions League.
On 10 May 2022, UEFA approved a format for the European Cup competitions with a system similar to the Swiss system, which will replace the group stage. From the 2024/25 season, 36 teams will participate in the Champions League, which will be placed in one table, the opponents will be decided according to the pre-season ranking position. Each team will play eight games. The top eight guarantee a place in the ⅛ finals, the next 16 teams will fight to reach this stage in an extra round.
2024-05-02 00:15:14
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