European cup (e.g. soccer)
When was the 16-team expansion? Europa League as the world's hottest soccer tournament, nowadays there are 24 places for advancement. However, the European Cup did not just start with so many places, is a step by step expansion up, so the European Cup expansion of 16 teams is when? In 1996, the European Cup final round of the participating teams expanded to 16 teams, 16 teams into four groups, each group of four teams, each group was a single round-robin points race, each group points first and second place teams into the knockout rounds, knockout rounds (including the final) are single-elimination knockout system.
