1, the road to champion
Uefa's club coefficient ranks from 1 1 to 55th. UEFA's top league champions participated in the first round of championship road qualifiers: four teams were eliminated after a single defeat and two teams advanced. The eliminated teams will participate in the second round of UEFA qualifiers. The winner of the first round of qualifiers will participate in the single-defeat knockout, 1 the team will advance, and the knockout will participate in the second round of UEFA qualifiers.
First round of qualifying: 33 teams+1 team won the game in both home and away rounds, 17 teams advanced, and those eliminated participated in the second round of Europa League qualifying. The second round: Team 3+65,438+07 won two rounds of home and away in the first round of qualifiers, while Team 65,438+00 advanced, and the eliminated team participated in the third round of Europa League qualifiers.
The third round of the qualifying round: 2 teams+10 The team that won in the second round of the qualifying round had two rounds of home and away, and 6 teams advanced. The eliminated players will participate in the Europa League play-offs: the two teams that won in the third round of the qualifying match+the six teams will go home and away for two rounds, the four teams will advance to the Champions League group stage, and the eliminated players will participate in the Europa League group stage.
2, the road to the league
The UEFA club coefficient ranks fifth, and the top league of six leagues ranks third and seventh, with 15. The runner-up of the top league of the Association participated in the second round of qualifiers: six teams participated in the home and away games, three teams advanced, and the eliminated ones participated in the third round of UEFA qualifiers.
The third round of the tournament: 5 teams+the second round of the qualifying round, 3 teams won in two rounds at home and away, 4 teams advanced, and the winner participated in the Europa League group play-off: 4 teams won the qualifying round, 2 teams advanced to the Champions League group stage, and the winner participated in the Europa League group stage? [7]?
3. Group stage
According to the club coefficient of UEFA associations, the number of participating places of each association is allocated. * * * There are 26 teams directly entering the Champions League group stage, namely the defending champions of the Champions League and the Europa League. The club coefficient of UEFA associations ranks in the top four among the four associations, the top two among the five or six associations and the top three among the seven to ten associations.
The remaining six teams will be produced through play-offs, and an association can only have up to five teams participating in the Champions League group stage. If the defending champions league results can guarantee their qualification for the Champions League group stage, then the top league champions ranked by UEFA 1 1 will directly participate in the group stage.
If the defending Champions League results can guarantee their qualification for the Champions League group stage, then the third place in UEFA's top league ranked fifth will directly participate in the group stage.
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Reform and Development of the Champions League Group Match System
199 1-92 Before the season, the competition system of the Champions League was a pure knockout. This season's group stage is set in the quarter-finals. 1992–93 season, the Champions League was officially renamed as the "European Champions Cup", and the competition also developed into Tuesdays and Wednesdays. But people are used to calling it the European Champions Cup.
In the following years, the competition system of the Champions League changed frequently, and the group round robin system was gradually applied to the competitions before the semi-finals. Teams are no longer limited to national league champions and champions league champions last season, but runners-up of some football powers can also participate. All these changes are to increase the number of games and make the participating teams get more benefits.
1998, in order to prevent major clubs from establishing the European super league, UEFA decided to carry out the biggest reform in the history of the three major European cups from the 1999-2000 season-cancel the European Cup Winners' Cup and merge it into the UEFA Cup. According to the ranking of European club competition results, countries can send 1-4 teams to participate in the Champions League.
Another round of group matches was added. In the first stage, 32 teams were divided into 4 teams in each group, and each team played 6 games. The top two of the eight groups entered the second stage of the group stage and the third entered the third round of the UEFA Cup. In the second stage of the group stage, the quarter-finals advanced to the knockout stage.
In the 2003-04 season, the second stage of the European Champions League was cancelled, that is, after the top 16 was produced, the knockout stage was directly started until the champion was decided. In the knockout stage, the draw for the competition will begin. If 16 is strong, 8 groups will be the first and 8 groups will be the second to distribute seeds.
The first place is the second place, but the premise is that the opponent cannot be a team from the same group and country. The draw for the top 8 is no longer limited to opponents in the same group and country, and indirectly determines the distribution of the semi-finals. However, since the European Champions League in 2065438+02–13, the semi-finals have been changed to another draw. Before the final, each knockout stage is divided into the first round, with the total score of the two teams as the score.
If the scores are the same, the away goal system is calculated. However, if there is no tiebreaker, it will go directly to overtime, and the away goal system is also applicable to overtime. If overtime can't tell the winner, it will enter the penalty shootout stage. As the final is a one-time competition, it will be held in the neutral stadium.
Based on the principle of fairness, even if the stadium where the final is held is the country to which the team belongs or even the home stadium, it needs to be divided into home and away venues, which is also convenient for stadium management. Similarly, if the winner can't be decided within 90 minutes, it will go into overtime. If you still can't decide the winner, then enter the penalty shootout and decide who is the winner.
Liverpool, the champion in 2004-05, failed to advance to UEFA in 2005-06 because it only finished fifth in the same Premier League. In order to avoid the embarrassing situation that the defending champion team can't participate in the competition, UEFA specially approved Liverpool to participate in the UEFA qualifiers, and then revised its qualification.
This year's UEFA champions can qualify for the next UEFA group match regardless of their domestic league rankings. However, if the Champions League ranking fails to meet the qualification, the champion will occupy one of the places in the same league. In other words, the number of places obtained by the league through the league ranking will be reduced by one.
Starting from the 2065438+05–16 season, if the defending seats of the current UEFA champions are not occupied (that is, the current UEFA champions have obtained the qualification through the domestic league ranking), the current UEFA champions can directly enter the UEFA group stage next season. However, if the current UEFA champion is qualified through the domestic league ranking, the number of entries will be transferred to the UEFA champion with a lower ranking.
At the same time, the UEFA group draw has been changed this season. The top seed consists of a defending champion and seven teams with the highest coefficient in UEFA in the last five seasons, and it is changed to defending champion and seven European league champions. 20 16, 10, UEFA officially approved the Champions League reform. Starting from the 2065438+08–19 season, the top four leagues in Europe will directly enter the Champions League group stage.
If UEFA champions qualify for UEFA through their national leagues, they will be ranked as UEFA 1 1 League champions; If UEFA champions qualify for UEFA through their national leagues, they will rank third in UEFA's 5th league. UEFA also stipulates that no more than five teams in each league can participate in UEFA.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Champions League