The Future of Champions League is Doomed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- The Future of Champions League is NOT GOOD.
Welcome to Nitro Football. The Champions League is starting a new format, that UEFA want to claim that benefits the fans and players. But really, it only benefits their wallet.
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UEFA copyrighted and blocked this video worldwide. At 3:35, it cuts randomly because I needed to remove that segment for you guys to be able to watch the video. Screw UEFA.
They just wanted the money
Fuck UEFA and FIFA😂
old format=good
new format= i have no fucking idea whats going on
Screw UEFA
Screw UEFA!
It's fair fym
Old format= boring group stage, people focus mainly on the games of their team’s group, easy draw for big teams, almost no excitement going into the last matchday
New format= every game is important and can be decisive for your club, still a lot to play going into the last matchday, and a really more equitable and FAIR draw.
UEFA copyrighting this video isn't slowing this channel down. Keep it up brother
Thank you bro , we keep grinding
wait they actually copyrighted the video?
The old format was so perfect. This sucks.
Screw Uefa.
The old format really was the pinnacle of football. So good.
If you don't know, the old format of the Champions League is simply only open for the winners of each countries and the straight KO.
Lmao you have no idea because the old format was not perfect😭😭🤣🤣this format is better
@@WalkedJungle777 trynna be different so badly
@@WalkedJungle777I am so quirky 🤓 this new format is just so bad
Screw ueafa and ea
and EA hell yeah
Screw the big teams... They are the ones putting pressure on UEFA to get more games and more money
this is just giving underdogs no chance #screwUEFA
It does hurt the underdogs a little
they've done that with the World Cup of 2026 aswell. Everytime there are changes, there are changes to a bunch of competitions at once. They just want the green paper. That's it.
Facts
Well no. The World Cup is gonna be 48 teams in 12 groups of 4. Top 2 automatically advance to the round of 32 and the best 8 third-place teams advance as well. Similar to the Euros in a way
@@CCCPRusRus thats true but i dont rlly like it because ye more teams can qualifiy but the matches are more straight forward as you rarely see teams like morrocco make a debut to the final 8 and 4 of the tournement as it is always the same teams that make it far
Man UEFA is making the UCL AND FOOTBALL in general worse
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UEFA you didn't do well to abandon the traditional format. The old format was more entertaining.
Agree
Blame the big clubs...
@@TurinStark5 How is it more entertaining lmao
@@alexhedar16 I didn't say it's more entertaining. What I'm referring to is that this new format was created as a result of the pressure made by the big clubs
I can see the appeal of the new format but i have no fucking clue how do the other 4 teams getinto Champions
Screw Uefa
Hahah
I hate the new format 🔥🔥
UEFA loves it. More $$$
At least they should have divided teams into two league tables (with 18 teams each) to make them look more like a national league table, 36 team table looks very exhausting
Plus there is no need of a league system for Europa League and Conference League
Yeah you’re right, one table is a lot. Maybe they should do 8 tables of 4.
Screw UEFA
Yup
It would've honestly been better if they added one more team to each group in the current UCL format. That way, you have 5 teams fighting for 3 spots, including the UEL spot, and 2 teams just go home.
Yeah everyone’s happy that way, even UEFA tbh
No, 5 teams per group is an absolute no-go as football history has shown multiple times. An odd number of teams means there's always one team that cannot influence events on the final group day, which is something to be avoided at all costs. (See the disgrace of Gijon for reference.)
@@segafreak2000 interesting. In that case, there must be something else to play for. Maybe another Europa League spot in a sort of playoff mini tournament?
Thing that really irked me at the time was that everyone was hating on the super league a few years ago even tho it was already in place to change the Champions League format. It screws over teams almost as much as the super league but all the hate from the super league allowed this to happen 🤦🏽♂️
Super league still deserves the hate!
@@NitroFooty So you want to pointlessly hate something that doesn't exist instead of focusing on the actual problem? Amazing.
More Games more Injuries, Champions leagues won’t feel as special anymore
Takes away a little bit of the beauty of the game
only 2-4 games for ech team lol
The Super League proposal now is not closed, it's open. Every day UEFA makes sure the Super League gets new fans. In fact, if the format is open, I prefer the Super League.
I’ll have to look into it!
Terrible format.
This new format has two main functions.
1. more games = more money.
2. Makes it easier for bigger teams to stay in the competition longer. No more Liverpool or Barca or some other underperforming "big" club dropping down and out of the competition early. With 8 different teams to play in the group stage it's highly likely these bigger teams will be making it out of the groups every year, which is of course what UEFA wants cause the longer the big teams stay in the more money UEFA makes.
because even if out of those 8 games you play 2 top teams that still gives you 6 very winnable games to get enough points to advance and that's assuming you lose both of the big games. and we all know EUFA "random" draw will never match up most of the big teams into one group.
Screw EUFA.
Yep
the super league did not die it is still looming ,it's the whole reason why they came up with the ridiculous new format as a last ditch effort to stop it
I’ll look into it!
screw uefa
yuuup
What is mbappe doing on that thumbnail 😂 like what did bro do
It was Jude Bellingham at first but it wasn’t getting as many views lol
I have no idea why clubs can't drop to UEL or UECL. That would give UEFA more money because of more games
It would only be more games if they added more rounds really
i disagree with dropping down europes league it’s only rewarding failure
Bro you deserve more recognition, your videos are very engaging for someone with less than 1k subscribers, also, screw uefa for copyrighting small channels
Thanks bro!!
As if having players play 70+ games every other season wasn't enough, they decided it would be a great idea to INCREASE the number of games??
More matches during the season = more training = more travelling = more INJURIES
Not to mention, preseason is also getting longer and requires even more travelling across the continents (jet lag)
Next season is going to be CHAOS. After Euros/CA, there's Olympics in a months time for some youngsters, then preseason starts in Asia and North America, then travel back to Europe to play longer format of UCL, league and cup matches, then possibly CWC in the summer of 2025??
UEFA and FIFA are pathetic
This
Bro….. if there are too many matches in a year, why not just add more days to the calendar? 🤯🤯🤯
@@CCCPRusRus omg i think you just solved it
such an American take. Everybody in the world knows the highest prestige in football is the World Cup. It has been like that forever and will stay that way. Your argument could apply to the Europa league . Are you going to say that’s better too ?
Man city don’t play in Europa league
World Cup is the highest prestige, but not the highest level of football.
Of course every player will take 1 world cup over 3 champions leagues, but that's only because World cup is much more rare since it's only once every 4 years and it's a country competition and there's really only a handful of countries with a realistic chance to win it, if you are not from one of those countries, you're out of luck. That's why it's higher prestige, but the level of competition is higher in Champions league.
The clubs that pitched the Super League wanted more money, after UEFA refused to increase the price money. I personally want the clubs to make more money instead of UEFA hogging the huge chunk of profits they currently do. Now UEFA adopted the dumb structure of the super league without really upping the prize money 🤣🤣
Yeah it’s quite the joke!
Lol... the clubs that pitched the Super League don't give a f..k about European football. UEFA not only provides tournaments for all European clubs that qualify for their competitions but for the youth and women too. If UEFA would go under, European football would suffer immensely across all levels of football. Just look at how West Ham, Olympiacos, Roma etc celebrate success in the lowest UEFA competition... UEFA is for all, SuperLeague is only for the top clubs..
I haven't figured out the new CL format yet, but I have enough time until September.
Lol
The problem with the super league wasnt just that it was a closed system, but that it was done with the almost intent to bankrupt domestic leagues because they wouldnt agree to make the prem a closed league system. As much as I dont like FIFA or UEFA, atleast they sort of protect the mobility aspect of the game.
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Eh, it was technically semi-closed.
To be fair, the format is changing ever since 93, group stage in quarters, then added semi finals, then group stage at round of 16, then non champions entering, then 24 teams group stage, then 32 teams group stage, then second group stage, then that was cut, and now we have this... thing
Yes true
Dude, you are really good at this. Last 2 videos are very entertaining and kept me engaged.
Glad you like them!
To make the format easier to understand increase the champions league to 48 teams. 12 groups of 4 like the euros. The top 8 third place teams are in pot 2 and the remaining teams go to the Europa League.
Same allocation with the winner of the conference league getting a berth.
For the remaining 15 teams associations ranked 6-21get an extra spot in the qualifiers.
I'd also add a rule(this won't happen)that says a Champions League squad must consist of no less than 15/23 of your players being homegrown. Expand the number of substitutes to 7 and 8 if its during extra time.
Teams need to be using their entire bench more to rotate their squad.
Good ideas tbh
The group stage is pretty boring to be fair and anyone that doesn’t like the new format is a nostalgia merchant (i’m English before everyone believes the idiot in the comments)
i like it
It's boring for you but not fans who like to watch real European football with clubs from across the continent.
@@TurinStark5 i’m not saying i don’t like it i’m just saying the new format could change things and not have the same teams coming in the top 2 every time
Except it's quite literally not. Real football fans like it, you Americans should just stick to the nfl
Also, what kind of f-ing is "anyone that doesn't like a new format is nostalgia merchant" ☝️🤓
I could say you're future merchant for that matter too, it just doesn't make sense, does it?
I calculated it and there will be 173 matches in the new format, if we take a average of 95 playing minutes per game we get 16435 minutes of ucl watch time. With that time you can watch exactly 1 half of a ucl match everyday of the year and still have around 10 minutes of match time left 💀
That’s a lot of UCL football
25/26: teams now play 12 matches in the league stage
26/27: teams now play 18 matches in the group stage
27/28 we removed the knockout phase and the winners will be the club with the most points in the league phase
28/29: we reduced the number of clubs from 36 to 18
29/30: clubs now play eachother home and away
72 group games inc
Screw Uefa and I really hope you continue uploading! I started my channel for fun yet understood the algortithm so well that I was able to get almost 15000 subs from 4 shorts. You’re a very talented creator that many people will eventually pay attention to and i wish you luck on your journey 🙏
Why!? The best thing abt CL groups is that you can still play Europa or Conference league. But noe yiu don't. SCREW UEFA
Yeah itll suck getting knocked out instead of going to Europa league
Football was a game that everyone can pick up the rules and enjoy in a short time like 3 years ago. Now the rules are getting more and more complicated and I bet the referees don’t even know what the offside rule is. This makes football more difficult to understand and takes away some of the beauty of the game
I'm still struggling to get my head around the new champions league format, I don't even like calling the UEFA champions league the champions league when there is teams that aren't champions of their own leagues in the competition, I'm hating the over commercialization of the game day by day
Lots of non champions for sure
Do i love the new format?
No
Do i would still watch the game?
Yes
Screw Uefa?
More like screw the players but fuck eufa.
Frfr
I already stopped watching the Champions League anyways because of all the money fuckery.
i actually like this format better
Fair’
Screw Uefa, but I thought when you lose the play-off match that you would go to the europa league
I don’t believe so.
0:51 Argentina beats Brazil, City and Madrid 😎
Messi aura
We need 4th UEFA competition.
The Farmers League
This is shit screw uefa forever this is giving me headaches like I never had before
Frfr
@@NitroFootyUhhh
The format is pretty bad. But I don’t even like the whole coefficient stuff. They could’ve given the extra 4 spots and distributed them as automatic spots to associations 5-8, making their UCL team count go from 2.5 to 3.5, if you’re gonna include the format, at least do that. I don’t want to look at a coefficient table and rely on my rivals just to make UCL football. The format is so dumb, but they could’ve done the allocations of the 4 extra spots so much better
FYI: screw UEFA
That’s true
SCREW UEFA, THE OLD FORMAT IS BETTER
Tell ‘em
@@NitroFooty Honestly, unless they gave all the spots to the smaller leagues, it doesn't do anybody good
New format is terrible for the smaller clubs who needs the money from Europa League & Conference League to improve...
Great video man. Here’s so you don’t have to do math 🎉 (subbed)
Thanks I don’t like math
This "table" thing is okay-ish, since it just compares group results against each other.
The stupid thing is taking more teams and adding more matches. It's dropping it's value, for real
It is getting over saturated for sure
good video, keep this up and youìll grow the channel in no time im sure
I appreciate that!
The format is easy to understand but people just don't want to do it and would rather complain even though it's better than before. Except if it's group of death, nobody wathches matchdays 5 and 6 since it's already decided who advances. Also it gives more chances to qualify but still people complain about not giving chance to smaller teams (Bologna - 5th in Italy, Brest - 3rd in France + one additional team from play offs)
but are they the champions?
Bro 8 to 24th team play off in single leg or two leg ?
9th to 24th in 2 legs
Yeah, it's basically a first round in a 24 team playoff as the top 8 teams get byes.
The format of the UCL was crap. It was mostly predictable. The top two almost always go through with ease. The knockout is when it gets interesting.
The best Champions league was when they had the second group stages. All four were good teams. Then the knock out stage.
There are many times where the expected top 2 don’t advance. Including Dortmund, who was predicted to finish 4th in the group and now is in the UCL final
@@NitroFootythat was a group of death any of the four teams could had advanced
@@bernardoisaac-hf5qw there won't be any groups of death anymore.
Now it will be just top teams beating up on smaller teams for 7 games and maybe 1 game where two top teams have to play each other with the result not having much meaning since they both will get enough points from the smaller teams.
@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 what are you talking about 😂
@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 before commenting actually read the comment
Because you somehow think the current format is interesting? More straightforward for sure but it now boils down to whom of Real Madrid or Manchester City will win. Not even Bayern can keep up with these.
Also similar concerns were expressed about the expansion to 32 teams and guess what? The older fans didn't like it but the new gen fans who hadn't experienced anything else lapped it up. Now any suggestion that the competition should be for champion teams only is greeted with scorn.
Bayern literally won the treble twice in the last decade what are you on about
Great vid but isn’t this a re upload ?
Edit: also watching this as a Villa fan who was thinking “I’ll be happy if we finish top 3 in our group” to be reminded there’s no more groups and no more demotion to Europa 😢
It was previously on my other channel which has been dedicated to only fifa now
uefa are only doing this format because they don’t want the actual super league to happen
So they claim
@@NitroFooty they literally reveal this format after the super league club’s rejection hmm an 2021
4 extra spots explained
1.there is a European league rankings called the association coefficient, based on the last 5 years the league ranked 5th (France) will gain an extra spot
2.qualifiers has 2 paths Champion path and League path, an extra team will qualify from the champion path (5 lower ranked champions will enter through the path)
3 and 4.back to the coefficient league ranking stuff the top 2 ranked leagues for that year will gain an extra spot (Italy and Germany)
hope this helps
Thanks 🙏
@@NitroFooty no problem
I won’t be surprised if future players retire early like at age 29 or 30 because of too many matches.
It seems that some have been already like Hazard. But we’ll see 10 years from now the effects this causes
@@NitroFooty 2 ways :
Too many matches = too much exhaustion = retirement
Too many matches = too many injuries = retirement
The quality of games are going to be so much better now that the players that are already over-playing now get to play even more yippee!
Hooray!
what a great format! surely we arent gonna see every world class player destroy their ACL and ruin their career for some cash they will never see........
Just one quick correction, the champions league is not adding additional games to the teams that finish mid table in the champions league, they are simply making it so that teams that finish top third skip that round. The round of 16 is in both the old and new formats.
There’s an extra playoff of 2 matches for each mid table team
O wait, they added knockouts… right
Bro why why why this is not Prem league why are they dping this the old format was 1000% better, with the gorups it was more exiting because you know the goal differences the little points that the little teams needed to qualify for the knockout stages, thats what made UCL more exiting (bc fairytale runs). Now it is just money dumping teams that are gonna win SCREW UEFA
It's hard to see how it works.
If a club wins their first 4 games for example, doesn't that mean they are already basically through in the top 8? Doesn't that make their last 4 games pretty irrelevant?
I mean yeah assuming that 12 points is enough, will probably need a couple more points to 100% guarantee
@@NitroFooty That's what I'm thinking too. So we could have a whole host of dead rubber games, especially in the last few rounds of the 8 group rounds.
I have been playing with the new format on football manager for the past 2 years, it’s okay honestly I mean I hate how you can’t drop down to other competitions like 3rd in UCL goes to UEL and etc. it’s debatable
It’ll be something new. But I’m a guy who likes the records in football. Now it’ll be much easier to beat any existing individual UCL records
Let's give it a try first, ok?
Still screw UEFA and screw FIFA but for different reasons.
I bet the next generation will act like the new champions league format is like 1+1
Edit:screw them
screw em
Screw uefa
Yessir
Just wait until we get big fixtures in beginning and then see how people will start loving this format it’s like you can see arsenal vs real madrid and mancity vs leverkusen in beginning only damn imagine those games ☠️☠️
Over saturation
@@NitroFooty just wait for the fixtures then see how the trend totally change towards system
i ate a cat
don’t man
Dudes your so underrated
Thanks bro!
I'm gonna bet that this new "format" will last for one season only
Bold take I bet it’ll last a little longer than that
@@NitroFooty ig ur also right but considering the backlash I don't think it'll last for as long as the original format
@@NitroFooty l think the ones who lose the playoff should go to the europa league
Remember me when you become famous
I’ll remember you someusedtoast
Bro i thought you had At least 100k subs when i first saw you like your content is so engaging
I appreciate that! One day we will!
SCREW UEFA! I still don't know how they pick the new 4 teams haha
It’s a puzzle
Nike's Last Game got more real lol
Lol
The superleague isn't dead. It's more alive than ever actually. UEFA and FIFS lost a court case against the superleague. Reports came out that almost 30-50 teams are ready to join the superleague starting next season, including premier league big six teams who came out publicly rejecting the superleague because the league threatened them. Also this new UCL format came out AFTER the new superleague format but the ucl one is just way worse lol removing subsequent competitions. The superleague has relegation so even partnered teams are not a guarantee. Also adding to the fact that FIFA changed the club world cup format for next season making it way bigger, just makes you look at UEFA and FIFA like ??????
The thing with the superleague and ucl is money. The champions league winner can get awarded around 150M for their whole run, while some mid-table prem teams get awarded more just for existinhey. This would change with the superleague and it would be free to watch.
The only thing stopping the superleague right now is the name. They have to re-brand because it has the same name as the Turkish superleague so, don't take anything as set in stone yet.
I hope not
Yeah, but national teams have to only use what they can use so that’s why the World Cup is harder because national teams only have the players they have
World Cup is definitely my favorite event in sports. I was talking strictly football level of play
this anoying fifa guy again?
Yes
more games more injuries, not liking this new UEFA format
yep
Football just going to a bad place rn, both Clubs competitions and national team competitions. It was already impossible for smaller teams to win the UCL it was changed from the european cup to UCL. Youd only see the same rich teams from the same countries always in the finals, like youd never see aston villa, celtic, etc, again. And this is making it worse.
Next video is actually talking about the new World Cup format
A team like "their labor cousin“😂
Oops
I mean it's not bad but I think this is probably more entertaining
Fair
Can I get a shoutout? SCREW UEFA
Shoutout Patrick
new format is ok, i play it on fm, but old format is goated
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Champions League should be renamed imho. How can you call it "Champions" League and look for "best club team in Europe" when you allow teams other than champions of their leagues to compete. I mean, "Champions" league will have 5 or possibly even 6 teams from one league enter next year (Bundesliga). That is a 1/3 of that league that is going to enter the "Champions" League. Sorry, but Dortmund, Leipzig, Bayern, Stuttgart and possibly Eintracht aren't champions.
What if Dortmund win UCL tho
@@NitroFooty Then they'll have 6 clubs in UCL and that is just too much and honestly beats the point of calling it a "Champions" League.
For me it should be winner of every UEFA national league (top say 15 leagues have direct qualification, while others have one knockout round to decide for other spots) + last years winner of UCL (if haven't qualified through winning the league). Other teams from leagues should be put in Europa League and Conference League so that being in top 5 still brings some continental competition and prize money associated with that. It would also bring the standards of Europa League and Conference League up by a mile with having teams like Arsenal, Juventus, Barcelona, Atletico, Tottenham and others not winning their respective league competing in them instead of UCL
go ahead and hate me but i like this new format
I don’t hate you. I hope the new format ends up being fun
i got u with the sub bro
Thanks bro
This would be good if they get rid of UEL and UECL
I think it’d be better if you could drop down to UEL from UCL after group stage
Football isn’t basketball
Cheer Geoff
Whatever happens you can always count on Man City to start off with pecking away at the weakest teams in the competition
“Random draw”
why are they expanding the ucl it’s called champions league and second 90 percent teams aren’t even league champions 😂😂😂
What
@@NitroFootyyou do realize you used to have win your league it’s stupid to called ucl still when 4th england teams make it
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Sauing champions league is better than world cup is so fckin dumb
you didn’t comprehend what I said
@@NitroFooty you said champions league is a higher level of competition than world cup. Thats a dumb take
@@tiagomoraes1510 yes higher level of play, he is not talking about which competition is more prestigious , he is talking which competition has the highest skill level and yes it's definitely the Champions league.
It doesn't even have to be an opinion, you can simply take all the Champions league players in one year and see the rank of each individual player that participating in the Champions league that year to find the average skill of all the players and then do the same thing with a World Cup players in one year.
I guaranteed you the average skill level of a Champions league player is higher than that of a World Cup players, simply because Champions league is composed of the top clubs all who try to get the best players in the world they can, while the World Cup is composed based of the top players of a particular nation. and a lot of nations like Austratila or Norway or Poland, will only have like 1 or 2 top players and the rest of their team is just regular shmoes that never will play in the Champions league level teams and that will bring down the average skill level a lot.
@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 Nobody talkes about prestige. And no, the skill level is not bigger in the champions league and this statement looks absurd to me. My country for example have several players from top teams of Europe who arent even in the national team.
The super league was a great idea just poorly designed initially. The new revamped version is based on sporting merit.
Should I review the revamped version?
@@NitroFooty Actually you should cuz all the mistakes you say about the new Champions league are solved on the new Super League. Less games, it is based on merit, it is more logic and straighforward to come up with the system
I love the new format but screw UEFA
That’s fair lol
The old format is better. Screw Uefa
Screw em!
Screw the big clubs!
I love the old format UEFA why are you changing something that's wildly accepted but i guess you love money mr crabs shrew UEFA u already made buck you don't need more crabs
Screw Uefa & it's convoluted format😂
Nice use of convoluted
Screw UEFA 😂
Yuppp