UEFA Champions League New Format after Matchday 3
By Paul Yarden | 30th October 2024
UEFA changed the format for its Champions League competition for the 2024-25 Season.
The main difference is 36 Clubs playing an expanded League format with each team having eight fixtures as opposed to the previous six games.
There is a single League Table with the Top Eight Clubs automatically progressing to the Knock-Out phase, while those ranked from 9th to 24th place
play two extra games with the winners joining the Top Eight teams to make-up the Round of Sixteen
Clubs who finish in 25th to 36th place are eliminated from the Competition and will no longer drop down to the UEFA Europa League.
The total number of UEFA Champions League matches will increase from 125 to 189 with the Final to be held at the Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany
on Saturday 31st May 2025.
To date, there have been three Matchdays played with English Clubs doing particularly well with the Top Three places going to Aston Villa, Liverpool
and Manchester City. Villa and Liverpool are the only Clubs with the maximum 9 points and England’s fourth Club, Arsenal is just outside the Top Eight
in 9th Place.
Two French Clubs, AS Monaco and Brest are in the Top Eight with Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen, Italy’s Inter Milan and Portugal’s Sporting filling the
remaining places.
The other British Club, Scotland’s Celtic, is having mixed fortunes with a win, a draw and a defeat from its three matches played so far.
166 Goals have been scored in the 54 matches played so far, giving an average of 3.07 Goals Scored per Game.
Bayern Munich & England’s Harry Kane is the current Top Goalscorer with five Goals and is one of three players to have scored a Hat-Trick along with
Real Madrid & Brazil’s Vinícius Júnior and Barcelona & Brazil’s Raphinha.
The new format is proving to be a great success and there have been some absolutely cracking games up to now.
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