The 2022-23 Champions League drew to a close with Manchester City’s 1-0 win against Inter in Turkey last night, and now attention turns to the next edition.
This morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (via PianetaMilan) writes how Napoli, Lazio, Inter and Milan will be the four Italian sides in the 2023-24 edition of the Champions League and the pots are already known for each team.
Napoli as champions of Italy will be in pot 1 with Manchester City, champions of England and Europe. They will be joined by Barcelona, Bayern Munich, PSG, Benfica and Feyenoord.
Inter will be in the second pot with Real Madrid, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, Atlético Madrid, RB Leipzig, Porto and Arsenal.
Lazio and Milan on the other hand will be in pot three together with RB Salzburg, Shakhtar Donetsk and Red Star. Real Sociedad, Celtic and Newcastle will be in pot three or four. In pot four the confirmed names are Union Berlin and RC Lens.
Why does Benfica and Feynord need to be in pot 1. They come from weaker leagues. Just taking the spot for actually good teams.
to guarantee the knock out round, one of them should be in our group….
To make an easier season for New Milan…
Because they’re actual champions in the champions league. If you just order it by strength, you’ll just end up with 5 English top seeds each year in a few years’ time. It’s one of the very few things that isn’t geared towards the biggest earning sides.
They are lower quality teams. You defenitly wont end up with 5 Eanglish teams, since Spain, Italy, Germany and even France have good teams too. The curent system just creates groups of death and makes it easyer for teams like Feynord, Benfica to go further in the CL while some big teams will eliminate eachother in the group stage. Basicly it gives weaker teams the chance to go further at the expanse of some better teams just becouse the better teams come from a stronger league.
Yes, that’s the whole point. And it enables those clubs to stay competitive. The payouts for the UCL are so crazily weighted towards the latter stages to keep the big money amongst a few teams, this is one very small thing that balances it out. Especially as Portugal and Netherlands are still semi-competitive leagues (at least three teams have a chance in each) it also adds some much needed variety and increases some jeopardy in the early rounds.
Maybe it would be better if they increase the money rewards during the group stages. With this setup it feels like teams are being punished for coming from a top league. And im sure most people would prefer to watch Milan-Barca in the knocout stage rather then Feynord-Benfica or some other similar teams.
Because it’s Champions league. It’s a league for champion from each nations.
Thats the intent of the competition, it’s not a league where only the big 5 nations club play.
The stronger nations already got advantages with 4, sometimes 5 teams in the competition.
Most of the champions from the smaler leagues wont even make it in to Conference League in the stronger ones lol.
They are league winners
Lets Go Rossoneri…!!
Small chance in the same group both with City n Real Madrid….the gap with the rest of 1st Pot n 2nd Pot are not that much next season….(if we are able to reinforce the team with the correct player for the next two months)…
_MILAN FOREVER_
Jeez, you’re right, a group of Sociedad, Manchester City and Real Madrid… Yikes
Newcastle and Sociedad in Group 4 is going to be awful for whoever gets drawn against them.
Why Borussia and RB are in second pot? RB should be in third.
That’s the difference between fourth and 1st/2nd. We’re probably going to be in a tough group and likely not go far again. Let’s hope r16
Lets have faith in Milan i;m sure we can make it out of any group