To the common Fan, the common football thinks functionary. Who lives, for example, in Beijing, have to get up either to 1.55 PM or 4 PM, with games from the Champions League live on TV can see. That is impractical. Right, because Europe’s Elite on Tuesday and Wednesday abuts, on days which are also in China, the so-called working days, and therefore, totally unsuitable for a night ball set for the crush on the couch at home. Two of European football the Problem want to fix officials.
As the “Sport Bild” reports, discuss Aleksander Ceferin, and Andrea Agnelli plans, according to which the matches of the Champions League in 2024 to Saturdays. Ceferin, President of the Uefa, Agnelli President of Juventus Turin and Chairman of the influential European club Association ECA. Their voices have weight. Agnelli also finds that there should be instead of eight groups of four, in the future, four groups of Eight. In the group phase, a Team would have to complete a so of 14 games, instead of six – and would correspondingly rich rewards. The total number of games in the group phase would also increase, from the current 96 to 112.
Currently, the Uefa takes 3.25 billion euros through to the Champions League
you might like The football fans among the approximately 1.4 billion Chinese with these plans, the national associations, more less. The German football should have signalled to League already, such intentions is completely rejected. The Bundesliga, the German favorite child, it would need to take place more frequently during the week, is a horror scenario for the local stadium visitors, especially for those in the curves.
the Uefa now rather on the German Fan or the Chinese? For the latter, the so-called market talks. Currently the Uefa a takes with your premium product of the Champions League around EUR 3.25 billion, most of it generated from TV Revenues. Only the European TV is exhausted and the market. Plenty of potential, however, the non-European market, especially the Asian. The Chinese had the opportunity for the Prime-Time to view on Saturday evening glossy football from Europe, the income may be a record-breaking heights.
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Because currently 93.5 per cent of Uefa’s revenues from the Champions League to be distributed to the participating clubs, would benefit the top clubs most of a change of date, financially at least. Uefa, the fear in the soccer cosmos Cup-plans for external investors and at the same time against other sports products (NBA, NFL, or formula 1) to your global TV consumers need to advertise, would you offer more. And the Chinese Fan, of course.
