UEFA made a new rule specifically for Sevilla

If you’ve been attentive with all the developments regarding the international football competitions in the last months, you’ve surely understood that the next edition of the UEFA Champions League will be the richest and most spectacular ever. Today, the highest authority in European football has made official some rule changes, some expected other not. Let’s talk about the first ones, at least for the record, as it’s all about bureaucratic modifications.

The new rules, that will apply to the Champions League, Europa League, and European Supercup, are following:

• A fourth substitute listed on the match sheet may take part in knockout matches exclusively during extra time.
• Exceptionally for the UEFA Champions League final, UEFA Europa League final and UEFA Super Cup, 23 players (instead of 18 players for all other matches) may be included on the match sheet.
• Some games of the CL group stages will be played at 6.55PM while all the others will be at 9 PM.
• Regarding the registration of players after a group stage of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League, a club may register three new eligible players without any restrictions.

Then, there’s another rule that we think is the best one. Starting from the 2018/19 season, the teams that have won the Europa League (or the previous UEFA Cup)  three consecutive times or a minimum of five times may also wear a multiple-winner badge on the shirt sleeve. So, the only team that could do so is Sevilla, that has won the Europa League both three times in-a-row and five times in its history  (2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016).