The Convention League is again with a shortened title and a radical format change for 2024/25.
That is the fourth iteration of UEFA’s latest membership competitors and it’ll comply with the Champions League and Europa League in having a Swiss mannequin format.
The competitors’s introduction has doubtlessly been a web optimistic, even when UEFA’s main motivation for its institution was financial, with extra member associations getting the prospect to shine on grander levels. Olympiacos joined Roma and West Ham as lifters of the Convention League trophy final season, with their success depicting the nice advantages of the competitors.
The format change for the 2024/25 Convention League requires an alteration on the draw entrance, so this is the whole lot you’ll want to know concerning the upcoming league part draw.
The league part for the 2024/25 Convention League draw will happen on Friday 30 August, with UEFA’s attracts this summer time being held on the Grimaldi Discussion board in Monaco. UEFA have not too long ago held their attracts at their headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, so this represents one other change.
The Convention League draw is scheduled to get underway at 14:30 CET (13:30 GMT), after the league part draw for the Europa League. All attracts shall be streamed on UEFA.com.
The 36 competing groups within the 2024/25 Convention League will not be determined till the conclusion of the play-offs. 24 will be part of the league part by way of the play-offs and shall be accompanied within the competitors by 12 losers from the Europa League play-offs.
Premier League aspect Chelsea and Fiorentina, finalists in back-to-back years, are among the many groups poised to qualify for the 2024/25 Convention League, though La Viola have some work to do within the second leg of their play-off tie in opposition to Puskas Akademia.
Actual Betis, Lens, Copenhagen and Heidenheim are all well-placed to progress, too.
UEFA’s swap to a Swiss mannequin format means the acquainted group levels have been ditched in favour of a league part.
Thus, the 36 groups concerned in Thursday’s Convention League draw is not going to be put into teams. As an alternative, the draw will resolve each membership’s six opponents. The competing groups shall be divided into six pots of six, with both sides, beginning with Pot 1, being manually drawn out of the hat. An AI software program will then randomly generate each group’s six opponents – one from every pot.
Golf equipment from the identical affiliation is not going to play one another and no group can face greater than two opponents from one different nation.
Each group will play three video games at residence and three away to make up the league part.
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Matchday |
Date |
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1 |
3 October 2024 |
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2 |
24 October 2024 |
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3 |
7 November 2024 |
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4 |
28 November 2024 |
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5 |
12 December 2024 |
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6 |
19 December 2024 |
