Celtic’s 2023/24 Scottish Premiership title win means they have automatically qualified for next season’s UEFA Champions League alongside 35 other teams. A new, expanded format comes into effect after the summer and Celtic are set for a guaranteed eight matches in the tournament – four home and four away against eight different opponents. It’s no longer called the group stage, replaced by a ‘League Phase’ in UEFA parlance – one giant table of 36 sides with various cut-off points to qualify for the knockout stages of the competition. The top eight teams will go through to the last 16 while thos…