The Chairman of Bayern Munich, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, reacted positively to the change in the Champions League format.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Getty Images"The new Champions League format is an obvious improvement. In the old group stage, everything was often decided after the fourth round. Bayern regularly advanced to the playoffs, and there were one or two matches that were not significant.
I am, first and foremost, a football fan. The fact that four top teams — Bayern, Real Madrid, Manchester City, and PSG — had to play knockout matches to advance to the playoffs last season showed me how much more interesting this format is.
Big teams understood that they need to give their all from the very beginning to make it to the top eight — as that is what everyone wants. UEFA has made a real revolution," Rummenigge is quoted as saying by Bayern & Germany.
