SUPER LEAGUE. Launched then abandoned, the Super League is back, but without Inter Milan, which would have broken its contract with the Super League.
Quickly fell through due to a very important uprising in the world of football, the Super League project has never been abandoned by Real, Barça or Juventus who have been preparing for several weeks a new formula like revealed it on Telegram. A new formula was mentioned this Thursday, March 3 by the president of Juventus Turin, Andrea Agnelli during a European football summit organized by the Financial Times: “The Super League has not failed. In my opinion, football The European Union desperately needs reform. UEFA knew that I, as president of Juve, was working on something different. The Super League is a collective work of 12 teams, not just one person. 12 clubs signed a 120-page contract and 11 of them are still bound by that contract.”
Only one team is no longer bound to the contract: Inter Milan. The reigning Italian champion was the only member to have a release clause in case of disagreement with his sponsors. The eleven clubs still linked to the Super League project are Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético, Juventus Turin, AC Milan, Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham.
The proposal of the clubs wishing to create this Super League consisted at the time of bringing together 20 clubs (against 36 in the current Champions League), i.e. 15 founding members (there are only 12 at the moment) + 5 more qualified teams each year, according to criteria which are not yet defined. These 20 participants would face each other first in a phase organized in two pools of ten teams, in home and away matches. The first three of the classification of each of the two pools would be qualified for the quarter-finals. They would then be joined by the winners of the play-offs pitting the fourth and fifth from each pool. The semi-finals would then follow, still in a two-way format, and the final, over one match.
The contingent of twelve clubs behind this creation of the Super League was made up of six English teams three Spaniards and three Italians before Real and Barça found themselves on their own.
- liverpool
- Manchester United
- Manchester City
- chelsea
- Tottenham
- Arsenal
- real Madrid
- FC Barcelona
- Atletico de Madrid
- Juventus Torino
- AC Milan
- Inter-Milan
However, several renowned clubs are not part of the clubs involved in this Super League project. This is particularly the case for French and German teams, and therefore PSG and Bayern Munich, finalists in the Champions League last year. As it stands, the Parisian club and its president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, also a member of the UEFA executive committee, close to Aleksander Ceferin, but also and above all at the head of beIN Media Group, broadcaster of the Champions League , have indeed the choice to remain faithful to the C1, which he dreams of winning in the short term. In the longer term, and if the Super League is indeed created, Paris could however find it difficult not to succumb to the attractions of this new competition and its major posters, major providers of TV rights and ticketing revenue…