The layout of the Champions Cup is apparently established for an extreme overhaul as the competition’s existing 2, 12-team seminar system has actually come under stress from essential stakeholders.
The Champions Cup presently makes use of a double seminar system, with the 24 certifying groups split right into 2 swimming pools. Each club plays 4 swimming pool phase matches versus 2 various other groups in their swimming pool.
The leading 8 from each swimming pool get approved for the last 16, while the 9th as well as 10th-ranked clubs fall to the Challenge Cup playoffs.
This layout was very first executed in the 2021-22 period, due to the Covid -19 pandemic, however it was kept for the 2022-23 period, the initially entailing South African groups.
However, according to the Telegraph, the existing layout has actually come under objection from gamers as well as trains for being also challenging, while there is likewise a worry that it has actually adversely influenced monetary incomes.
The EPCR is apparently taking into consideration a return to the old European Cup layout, which would certainly see the 24 groups split right into 6 swimming pools of 4, including an added weekend break of activity to the competition.
Stakeholders have actually likewise required the Champions Cup to return to its previous timetable, when swimming pool phases were held in between October as well as January, as opposed to this period, when the swimming pool phases just began in December.
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