Uefa Cup 'set for new name'

[Sharpys top lip]

The Uefa Cup looks could be on the verge of being re-branded.
It could soon be called the Uefa Europa League as football's bosses seek to give the competition fresh appeal.
European soccer's governing body Uefa is considering the name change as it seeks to reverse a feeling it has become 'a second class competition'.
The proposed name change was revealed by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the acting chairman of the new European Clubs Association, whose organisation was presented with the proposal on Monday.
Refreshment

Rummenigge said: "The hope is that a refreshment of the name and brand can help achieve better results than we've seen in the Uefa Cup in the past.
"There has been a general impression that it has become a second-class competition and that we should get back to how it was ten or 15 years ago."
Uefa's executive committee is set to vote on the name change when it meets in Bordeaux in September.
Confirming the vote, a senior Uefa source added the new name was meant to better reflect the new group stage system being used in the competition from the 2009-10 season.

Copy

This new system is a direct copy of UEFA's more successful Champions League competition and will see the dropping of the unpopular five-team groups in which teams play each opponent just once either home or away in favour of a simpler home and away system.
In another lesson learned from the lucrative Champions League, UEFA will also be marketing the competition centrally from 2009.

Does it make any difference? It's always going to be second to the champions league.

Whay do you think?

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

they should lose the idea of putting champions league teams into it for a start and i for one would welcome back the cup winners cup on a straight knockout basis with teams from every euro nation. the present system just kisses the arse of big name teams, some of who play in 2nd rate leagues.

the uefa goblet would be a fantastic name change

 

[TX Bill]

It isn't the name that needs rebranding, it's the prize money that needs a bit of tinkering (or a lot of tinkering depending upon your view.)

 

[coyney]

all the champions league losers should just be out instead of going into this comp as a sort of consolation cash prize you've missed out on the jackpot so here's a chance to get a few euros to see you through to next season.I liked the cup winners cup because you had to win something to enter this cup city qualified by getting hammered at boro but only collecting a few penalty points,if we are getting hammered I want our players to be annoyed not have a after you Claude attitude

 

[EFCNIK]

The European cup of un-fathomed destiny

No other name will be good enough

 

[moyes_bringin_it_back]

As long as it cuts down the differential of the RS getting x42 the amount of prize money relative to us - despite us not losing a group game....

I'm all for it. More money from UEFA - HOPEFULLY

 

[teppic]

wont apply to us as in the 09/10 season we'll be in the champs league. kkk

 

[TsarDiniyar]

wont apply to us as in the 09/10 season we'll be in the champs league. kkk

i like your forward thinking