Dortmund fans protest 'UEFA mafia' changes to Champions League


Borussia Dortmund fans have made their opposition to Champions League reforms clear with a huge tifo attacking European football's governing body UEFA ahead of their one-sided 7-1 victory over Celtic.

Fans displayed the words “UEFA mafia” behind one of the goals before Tuesday's match against Scottish team Celtic, above a banner that read “You don't care about sport, all you care about is money!” !”.

Another poster above showed a link to a website that made it clear that the posters were referring to the Champions League reforms.

This season, UEFA has changed the structure of the main European competition to add four more teams. The group stage has been eliminated in favor of a league system in which each of the 36 participating teams faces eight opponents once in the first phase of the competition.

Also before Tuesday's game, Celtic fans waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags.

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