The season 2022/23 will at all times be remembered by West Ham followers because the marketing campaign the place they received their first main trophy in 43 years.
The sight of Declan Rice lifting the Europa Convention League aloft in Prague will certainly reside lengthy within the reminiscence for a lot of Hammers supporters, and the gamers themselves will be capable to dine out on that success for years to return.
The FA Cup successful facet of 1980 are nonetheless revered to today, so the likes of Rice, Stated Benrahma, Jarrod Bowen and their team-mates can look again on final season’s closing victory over Fiorentina with satisfaction.
They are going to, nonetheless, be one in all solely three winners of the competitors in its present type together with AS Roma and one different facet to be decided in 2023/24.
That’s as a result of, in line with the official UEFA web site, there’s a giant change coming from the 2024/25 marketing campaign.
The sport’s governing physique have realised that, over the course of the 2 season’s that it’s been in existence, the ECL has proved extremely well-liked.
It’s with that in thoughts that will probably be dropping the ‘Europa’ from the title and the competitors will then be often called the UEFA Convention League.
Analysis has apparently proven that by doing so, extra business alternatives and additional improvement of the competitors might be accessible.