‘UEFA DECIDED THAT THEIR OWN JEWEL IN THE CROWN WOULD NEED TO BE CHANGED’’
DID YOU KNOW?
At the age of 40 years and 254 days, Pepe made history by becoming the first player aged 40 or older to score a UEFA Champions League goal. This milestone was achieved during Porto’s 2-0 victory against Antwerp.
Are you enjoying this season’s UEFA Champions League? Or has the group stage become a little tired and predictable? If you answered yes to that last question, you may be interested in the revolutionary format changes set for next year. But UEFA has already been criticised for its newlook tournament - and for the reasoning behind the change.
Traditionalists may still be unhappy that it is not just the actual champions of each European league that gets to compete in the Champions League. But for 20 years there has been a distinct format to the premier club competition in Europe. Since the energy-sapping additional group stage was done away with in
