UEFA said on Wednesday that the name of its third-tier competition will be changed from “Europa Conference League” to “Conference League” beginning with the 2024-25 season.
The 2024 and 2025 finals will be hosted in Athens and Wroclaw, respectively, while the 2025 Women’s Champions League final will be held in Sporting’s Estadio Jose Alvalade in Lisbon.
UEFA via a statement cited by BizWatch Nigeria said, “The UEFA Executive Committee met today at the House of European Football in Nyon, and made the decision to rename the UEFA Europa Conference League to UEFA Conference League.
“Introduced under the ‘Europa’ umbrella at the start of the 2021–24 commercial cycle, the new competition has quickly established itself amongst a broad audience after two successful seasons.”
According research conducted by UEFA the removal of ‘Europa’ will develop the competition.
“Research amongst fans as well as commercial partners has found that removing ‘Europa’ from the name of the competition will enable further development as a stand-alone competition and this proposed change was approved by the UEFA Executive Committee.
“It will be effective in the new cycle, as of the 2024/25 season.
“Together with the UEFA Europa League, the UEFA Conference League will continue to deliver ‘Thursday Night Football’ to fans across Europe and beyond.
“A strong link between the competitions will remain in place as both brand identities will remain very close, and both competitions will continue to be sold to broadcast partners and sponsors together.”
