This season, the competition added a brand-new league phase, which was a huge hit all around.
Teams will be more interested in where they finish in the league after eight rounds of games than where they finish in the Champions League.
CNN says that in the quarterfinals and semifinals, the teams that play away in the first leg and at home in the second leg will depend on who came higher in the league phase.
Last season, that wasn’t the case, so where teams ended in the table didn’t mean as much. It’s going to become more important now.
The change is said to have been approved by UEFA’s club games committee before the Champions League final in Munich last Saturday. It is said that the approval will be approved by the executive committee before the league phase draw for 2025–26.
Celtic will have to get through a very nerve-wracking play-off match in order to make it into the Champions League next season.
They will be placed and could play FC Basel, Sturm Graz, FCSB, Lech Poznan, Slovan Bratislava, or Rijeka. The official list of teams they could play will be released closer to the tournament.
For the fourth year in a row, Brendan Rodgers’ team wants to make it into Europe’s top club football tournament. If they can do it, it will be a first for the Celts.
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