HajdukSplit
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At today's UEFA Executive Committee meeting along with the news of reformatting the Nations League and decided the hosts of the next three Champions League finals, UEFA decided to introduce a third European competition staring in 2021 named the UEFA Europa Conference League (slips right off the tongue). The matches will take place on Thursday and will be simultaneously with the Europa League fixtures.
They haven't yet gone into detail who qualifies for this tournament or what the format is but the rumor is the Europa League will be reduced to 32 clubs while this new competition will have 32 clubs as well. The Conference League will be more focused on teams from outside the top leagues (for example England will only have one spot while it appears the lower ranked leagues will get more spots or at least more opportunities). The winner of the Conference League gets a Europa League spot next season and the team finishing 3rd in their EL group drops to the Conference league
Overall its not a surprise UEFA introduced this, though not sure how much interest there will be in this even though I'm not a football elitist, its just too many games going on at the same time
They haven't yet gone into detail who qualifies for this tournament or what the format is but the rumor is the Europa League will be reduced to 32 clubs while this new competition will have 32 clubs as well. The Conference League will be more focused on teams from outside the top leagues (for example England will only have one spot while it appears the lower ranked leagues will get more spots or at least more opportunities). The winner of the Conference League gets a Europa League spot next season and the team finishing 3rd in their EL group drops to the Conference league
Overall its not a surprise UEFA introduced this, though not sure how much interest there will be in this even though I'm not a football elitist, its just too many games going on at the same time