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Platini wants Champions League with 64 teams 2.07.2012

UEFA President Michel Platini has a revolutionary idea which intends to realize in the coming years, said the newspaper "Bild". The idea of the Frenchman is UEFA Cup to stop exist, and the participants from to be transfused into the Champions League.

This reform will take effect from 2016 eventually. The leading clubs on the continent already know that the prestigious tournament will survive in its present format 4 more seasons.

Then from UEFA plan to merge the two club competitions, in which the number of participants in the Champions League will grow from 32 to 64 teams.

Leading leagues of Spain, England and Germany will have six participants in the new Champions League and place there to find and smaller clubs from the more modest championships

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