The Women’s Champions League for the next 2024-2025 season has been fully designed. Competition where there are four teams with direct access to the group stage; starting with him Barcelona Soccer Club in his capacity as the current champion of the tournament.
But it is also given that Barcelona also won the Spanish championship, and in accordance with UEFA regulations; leaving its spot vacant in this group stage to be filled by the association’s national champion ranked fourth. In this case it is England and it depends on London’s Chelsea. The other two teams that directly access this group stage without having to go through any previous round are the French Olympique Lyonnais, finalist in the last edition of the Champions League, along with the German Bayern Munich.
This move has another immediate result in the club’s top competition next season. With Chelsea occupying fourth place in the group stage, instead of playing in the second round, the position left by the English club goes to the association classified in seventh place. This is the Czech Republic and the club is Slavia Prague, which along with Italian Roma and Swedish Hammarby directly started their journey in this second round before the group round.
Real Madrid have to play one round and Atlético de Madrid two
Round in which Real Madrid also enters by coefficient with five others: PSG, Manchester City, Wolfsburg, Juventus and Swedish Hacken.
The third Spanish team to qualify for the Champions League, Atlético de Madrid, had to go through the two previous rounds to enter the group stage. The red-and-white club will enter this round with fifteen other teams directly by coefficient. Furthermore, and since there are 50 associations that have registered clubs for this new edition, there will be no preliminary round in this 2024-2025 edition. According to UEFA, round 1 will be played in the form of mini-tournaments, with 43 clubs divided into ten groups of four teams and one group of three teams. The winners will be those who will play the 16 clubs that are in this first round by coefficient, such as the red and white teams. The winners will advance to the second round where Real Madrid and the other five clubs await. The winners will join the four in the group stage.
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Source: La Verdad
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