22.07.2010-

Şampiyonlar Ligi ön elemeleri başladı. Ön elemelerde çok farklı ülkeden(Ligden) kulüp mücadele ediyor ama yine gruplara kalan takımlar belirli liglerden. Bu takımlar ön elemeleri geçemiyorlar ve gruplara kalamıyorlar.

Yine Avrupa'nın dominant liglerinin takımları gruplarda. Kısacası rekabet çeşitliliği açısından Şampiyonlar Ligi'nde çok daha değişen bir şey yok...

More of the same teams are qualifying for the Champions League each year despite the changes pushed through by UEFA president Michel Platini to improve the diversity of the competition according to exclusive research by SBW. As part of his election mandate, Platini proposed a radical overhaul of the qualifying rounds of the Champions League, which was watered down after serious opposition from the big clubs but the new system has still enabled clubs from smaller countries, such as Cyprus and Belarus, to progress to the group stage. This year will also see a team from outside England’s traditional big four of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United play in the Champions League qualifiers for four seasons. The forthcoming season will also see Turkey’s Bursaspor and Rubin Kazan of Russia – two clubs making their debut in the competition - go straight into the group stages include, but despite this the variety of teams in the competition is getting worse. The SBW Champions League Diversity Index works by dividing the total Champions League appearances over the past 15 years for each nation by the number of different clubs that took up those entries to give an index figure. A year ago, the overall index was 3.44 but for the 2010/11 Champions League the figure has grown to 3.58, which means that more of the same teams are still qualifying year-on-year as money from the competition distorts national leagues. The Ukraine are the least diverse country and only two teams, Dynamo Kiev and Shaktar Donetsk, have played in the Champions League since the competition adopted a group format in 1994/95. Scotland are the next worst with a solitary appearance by Hearts in the 2006/07 qualifying stages the only occasion that the Glasgow duopoly of Celtic and Rangers has ever been broken, while just four clubs have represented Greece since 1993/95. In France, Lyon have appeared in the Champions League every season since 1999/2000, while Pyunik have represented Armenia constantly since 2002/03 and Sheriff Tirasopol have been Moldova’s sole entrants since 2001/02. A few years ago, Moldovan newspaper Sport Plus offered 100 litres of beer to the team that could break Sheriff Tiraspol’s iron grip on the domestic championship. Although UEFA will not disclose the amount of money distributed from last season’s Champions League between Manchester United have earned €261 million between 1992/93 and 2008/09 from the competition, illustrating the vast money-making

opportunities that the competition brings. This has come at the expense of clubs from smaller countries, who are offered solidarity payments, i.e. compensation, for starting the qualifying rounds before larger countries have even started pre-season friendly matches. A club that simply qualifies for the first round but gets thrashed over two legs still earns more than €100,000, which can distort leagues in small countries, where players earn far less. This season’s Champions League kicked off so early that the first preliminary round tie took place before the last-16 stage of the World Cup was even completed. Although neither Andorran title holders Santa Coloma nor Maltese champions Birkirkara were likely to call on any players in South Africa, the tie was too early for the pitch in the Pyrenean principality. The game could not be played and Birkirkara were given a 3-0 walkover, handing the Maltese side a huge advantage ahead of their home leg, which was only edged 4-3. The country providing the most diverse range of teams is Montenegro but the former Yugoslav republic has only been entering the competition for the past three seasons. The next most diverse country is Bosnia & Herzegovina.{jcomments on}

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