Quote Originally Posted by talisman View Post
CL is competition for 32 teams (8 groups of 4 teams, then knockout for 16 top/2nd teams).
You have overlooked how those teams were selected.

The last season league act as a qualification tournament where 4 out of 14 teams became qualified to the group stage of CL.
So the CL is actually one winner out of 8*14 = 112 teams