The Premier League’s Big Six are likely to suffer a further blow as negotiations restart on the new format of the Champions League from 2024, with a fresh impetus to ensure no club qualify purely on the basis of their historical record.
Europe’s elite clubs, pushed by the Premier League’s Big Six, had managed to include two extra places in the new Champions League format based on the past five years of a club’s UEFA coefficient — before they decided that wasn’t sufficient security and attempted to impose permanent membership of a tournament, regardless of performance, with their failed Super League.