Champions League: Aleksander Ceferin “in favor” of a Final 4 from 2024 – Peter Dejong / AP / SIPA
After Final 8, Final 4? European Football Union (UEFA) President Aleksander Ceferin said he was “in favor of a Final Four in the Champions League” by 2024, in a statement.
interview given to The team and published on Saturday.
“Personally, I would like this to happen (…) It could be great. And effective in terms of income if it is done well, ”said the president of the European body. The leader however specified that “there are advantages and disadvantages” to this formula, adopted in other sports for their European Cup.
“No urgency” to decide, according to Ceferin
” There is no emergency. We can decide that in a year, “said Aleksander Ceferin, seduced by the Final 8 last season: constrained by the Covid-19 health crisis, the eight qualified teams had met from the quarters of C1 in the same city of Lisbon for two weeks.
In this interview with our colleagues, Aleksander Ceferin also returned to the Super League project. “For the whole football family, their attitude is shocking and unacceptable,” said the Slovenian of Real Madrid, Juventus Turin and FC Barcelona, the three of the twelve giants of European football not to have still not given up on this dissenting Champions League.
This project to create a Super League bringing together twelve of the biggest European clubs, announced last April, had finally failed in the face of the outcry it had provoked in and outside the football family.