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UEFA facing legal threat over new Champions League format<\/p>\r\n\"UEFA<\/a>\r\n\r\nChilean sports consultant Leandro Shara has threatened to sue European football\u2019s governing body\u00a0UEFA<\/a>\u00a0for the \u201cunauthorised and unfair use\u201d of the \u201cleague phase\u201d format it is introducing for its three club competitions this season.\r\n\r\nOften called the \u201cSwiss model\u201d, as it is loosely based on a format used in large chess tournaments, the new format will see the competitors in each UEFA competition ranked in three 36-team leagues but only have to play eight games against eight different rivals, four home, four away.\r\n\r\nBecause of its complexity, each teams\u2019 eight opponents will be decided by computer, instead of being picked out of glass bowls, at the draw in Monaco on Thursday and Friday, with the teams in each competition split into four seeded pots of nine clubs. Each team will play two opponents from each pot, with the actual fixtures being announced on Saturday.\r\n\r\nThe format replaces the group stages that have been a feature of the Champions League since they were introduced in 1991, the year before the European Cup, a straight knockout competition, was rebranded.\r\n\r\nIt is not, however, a true \u201cSwiss\u201d format as that involves redrawing the fixtures after each round of matches \u2014 pitting winners against winners, with the overall victor being the competitor with highest aggregate score \u2014 as that would be impossible for a cross-border football competition with a global TV audience.\r\n\r\nThat is where Shara\u2019s complaint comes in, as he claims he invented the hybrid system UEFA has chosen and says it should really be called the \u201cLeandro Shara System\u201d, a format he copyrighted in Chile in 2006, or more simply the \u201cpots\u201d format.\r\n\r\nHe also alleges that he \u201cpresented the format to UEFA over a dozen times since 2013\u201d, giving European football\u2019s governing body \u201ccase studies\u201d and \u201cdocuments\u201d, as well as discussing the idea at several sports conferences and working with the football authorities in Chile and Peru on competitions that have used the format.\r\n\r\nThese claims, and several others, are contained a cease-and-desist notice Shara sent to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, secretary general Theodore Theodoridis and six other senior members of staff on Monday.\r\n\r\nIn the notice, which\u00a0The Athletic<\/em>\u00a0has seen, Shara demands that UEFA \u201cindicates at the draw and all upcoming publications\u201d that it is his format, invites him and three colleagues from his MatchVision company to attend the draw and lets him speak to the media, tells its member associations and commercial partners that they must respect MatchVision\u2019s ownership of the format and, finally, enters into a commercial agreement with MatchVision for the format\u2019s use before the league phases start next month.\r\n\r\nShara has given UEFA until Wednesday, August 28th, to comply with his demands, warning them that if it fails to \u201cperform the above actions a lawsuit may be commenced against UEFA and the competitions may be jeopardised in one or more countries where UEFA members associations reside\u201d.\r\n\r\nA UEFA spokesperson said: \u201cThe claims made by MatchVision are baseless at best, and are just another entry on a list of similar actions. 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