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The Champions Path features two automatic entrants and six third qualifying round winners. The League Path features four third qualifying round winners. Winners of the six two-legged ties advance to the Champions League group stage to join the 26 teams given direct entry.

What's going to be different about the Champions League? This season's 32-team group stage will be a thing of the past, as 36 teams will now be invited to the group stage and the group stage including eight games per team. That means the group stage will stretch early into the new year.

Under the original plan proposed in 2021, the tournament was to almost double in size, from a total of 125 games to 225, with each team playing 10 games in the group stage. However, that has now been scaled back to eight group stage fixtures, meaning a total of 189 games in the season.

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The two leagues that have the best coefficients this season will get an extra place in the UCL group stage next season. If England is in the top two, fifth in the Premier League will qualify for the Champions League. Individual club coefficient isn't relevant; it goes to the next team in the domestic table.

For the very first time, five Premier League teams could qualify for the Champions League through their league position. Traditionally, there has only been four clubs who have qualified through their league place.

The top two teams in each group advance to the round of 16. The third-placed sides in each group transfer to the UEFA Europa League knockout round play-offs, where they will face the UEFA Europa League group runners-up for places in the last 16.

How can five teams qualify for the Champions League? The two leagues that have the best coefficients this season will get an extra place in the UCL group stage next season. If England is in the top two, fifth in the Premier League will qualify for the Champions League.

eight matches The new format Every team will play eight matches (two more than the current group stage but two less than the original plans which wanted 10), four home and four away – but all against different opponents. After this peculiar quarter-campaign, the top eight teams go straight to the last 16.

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