Major Champions League time changes ahead of 2018-19 knockout stages

There’s the talk of monumental changes to the Champions League in the near future. According to the Elliot Richardson, who is the Chairman of Dugout, Champions League games will be played on the weekends instead of midweek in a bid to maximize the Asian and US audiences interested in European football’s premier club competition. https://twitter.com/ElliotR1971/status/1082903791731728384 According to  Sport BILD, we could soon have four groups of eight teams as well as a drastic schedule change whereby we see the UCL played at the end of every week. Going into this season, UEFA announced new kick-off times of 17:55 and 20:00 (GMT), 23-man squads instead of while they recently revealed that VAR and a fourth substitute will be used starting with this season's knockout changes. https://twitter.com/UEFA/status/978562405105061888

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