UEFA to scrap controversial coefficient plan for Champions League

English clubs could benefit from a fifth Champions League place from 2024 based on European performance. Nick Potts/PA Wire.

Uefa will allow two clubs to enter the Champions League from 2024 based on historical performance, it has been agreed, but with the rankings determined by country and not club.

The deal, struck at a meeting of Uefa’s executive committee on Tuesday, is a compromise which will also see the number of fixtures in the revamped Champions League reduced to eight matches per club in the ‘league stage’, down from a proposed 10.