The two separate qualifying tournaments in the new system is the Champions Path, for clubs which lose their domestic league and did not automatically qualify for the group stage, and the Non-Champions Path, for clubs which did not win their domestic league and did not automatically qualify for the group stage.
The group stage featured 32 teams: the 22 automatic qualifiers and the 10 winners of the play-off round (five through the Champions Path, five through the Non-Champions Path). 
