Fans of UEFA club competitions will have more exciting moments from 2021 when a new UEFA club competition will commence. The aim of this new competition, according to UEFA President, Aleksander Ceferin, ‘is to make UEFA club competitions more inclusive than ever before. There will be more matches for more clubs, with more associations represented in the group stages’.
The new competition, UEFA Europa League 2, will feature 32 teams in the group stage. The format will see eight groups of four teams, followed by the round of 16, quarter final, semi final and final.
An additional knock-out round will be played before the round of 16 between teams ranked second in their groups and the third-ranked teams of the UEFA Europa League games.
This new competition will be played on Thursday alongside the Europa League. All club competition finals will be played in the same week. New competition on Wednesday, Europa League on Thursday and Champions League on Saturday.
