The number of teams eligible to compete in the Champions League is the first significant change. We’ve been accustomed to 32 clubs splitting up into eight groups of four for more than 20 years. There will be 36 teams by 2024–2025. Qualification is still based on a team’s standing in their home league, just as it has been in previous years. Since the Bundesliga is one of the top leagues according to UEFA’s coefficient system, all four teams that place in the top four automatically advance to the Champions League. The league with the fifth-best coefficients gets one of the four additional spots, while another goes to another domestic champion. Currently, German clubs are not concerned about those.
The “European Performance Spots,” which are utilized to assign the final two clubs, are what have an effect on Bundesliga teams. These spots will be awarded to the associations whose clubs had the best overall performance in the previous season, according to UEFA. This is determined by the association club coefficient of the previous season, which is calculated by dividing the total number of club coefficient points earned by each club from an association by the number of participating clubs from that association. Put another way, a nation’s clubs have a stronger chance of securing an additional spot in the Champions League the following season if they perform well in European competition the previous season, as the Bundesliga did in 2024–2025.
