Borussia Dortmund fans shout ‘UEFA mafia’ over Champions League changes | Football news

Borussia Dortmund fans have made clear their opposition to Champions League reforms with a huge tifo blasting European football governing body UEFA.

The supporters displayed the words UEFA Mafia behind one of the goals before Tuesday’s match against Scottish team Celtic, above a banner reading ‘You don’t care about the sport, all you care about is money!’ Another banner above showed a website link that made it clear that the banners referred to Champions League reforms.

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This season, UEFA has changed the structure of Europe’s premier competition by adding four extra teams. The group stage has been scrapped for a competition system in which each of the now 36 participating teams plays eight opponents once in an initial phase of the competition.

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