From the start of the 2025/26 season, the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League will comply with a brand new format that’s much like the new-look males’s competitors which will get underway subsequent season.
The ladies’s competitors was first performed in 2001 underneath the identify UEFA Ladies’s Cup, however was renamed to the Champions League for the 2009/10 season. French facet Lyon are essentially the most profitable staff within the competitors with eight titles to their identify up to now.
In December 2023, the UEFA Government Committee accredited the brand new format, which incorporates the introduction of a second European girls’s membership competitors. This implies new groups will be capable to enter and a few who’re knocked out of the Champions League can have a second try at silverware.
The first competitors might be a single league that includes 18 groups, which additionally permits extra groups to compete. This implies groups will now not play three opponents twice as a part of a gaggle stage, however will as a substitute face six completely different groups in a league stage, enjoying half of these away from dwelling and the opposite half at dwelling.
Groups might be ranked in three seeding pots primarily based on their club-coefficient rating and can play two opponents from every pot. Outcomes will then decide the general rating, with the usual three factors for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss.
The highest 4 groups within the league will routinely qualify for the quarter-finals, whereas these in fifth to twelfth will contest two-legged knockout video games to e book their place within the final eight.
Those that end thirteenth or beneath are eradicated with no probability of progressing to the latter levels. The quarter-finals, semi-finals and last will comply with the standard format of the competitors.
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