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Competition Key Info:
JOINT STATEMENT FROM UEFA, THE FA, PREMIER LEAGUE, RFEF, LALIGA, FIGC, LEGA SERIE A
UEFA, the English Football Association and the Premier League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga, and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Serie A have learned that a few English, Spanish and Italian clubs may be planning to announce their creation of a closed, so-called Super League. If this were to happen, we wish to reiterate that we — UEFA, the English FA, RFEF, FIGC, the Premier League, LaLiga, Lega SerieA but also FIFA and all our member associations - will remain united in our efforts to stop this cynical project, a project that is founded on the self-interest of a few clubs at a time when society needs solidarity more than ever. We will consider all measures available to us, at all levels, both judicial and sporting in order to prevent this happening. Football is based on open competitions and sporting merit; it cannot be any other way. As previously announced by FIFA and the six Federations, the clubs concerned will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic, European or world level, and their players could be denied the opportunity to represent their national teams. We thank those clubs in other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to sign up to this. We call on all lovers of football, supporters and politicians, to join us in fighting against such a project if it were to be announced. This persistent self-interest of a few has been going on for too long. Enough is enough.
Other Information:
- ENG: Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal
- ESP: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid
- ITA: Juventus, AC Milan, Inter Milan
- PSG have reportedly declined invitations to the competition.
- The competition is expected to be expanded to 20 clubs total, with 15 permanent members and 5 qualifying members. The qualification criteria are not yet clear.
- The competition format is expected to be two groups of 10 which play each other twice each, once home and once away. Upon the completion of the groups the top three in each table go into a standard knockout format, with the fourth and fifth ranked teams in each division playing a two-legged head-to-head match to decide the last two quarter final slots. Standard two leg knockouts and a single leg final determine the winner. The format is expected to be classic 1st v 8th; 2nd v 7th etc to reward strong group performances. How the groups are seeded is not yet known.
- Joining the ESL is expected to be worth £310 million, compared to £100 million for qualifying for the UCL.
- ESL participants will have an additional £3.5 billion pool to share among them to improve infrastructure, possibly meaning a further £233m for founder clubs.
- Matches would take place in midweek, with the exception of the final. Clubs would still intend to play in their domestic leagues. Despite this, there are threats of bans from other competitions for ESL Participants.
JOINT STATEMENT FROM UEFA, THE FA, PREMIER LEAGUE, RFEF, LALIGA, FIGC, LEGA SERIE A
UEFA, the English Football Association and the Premier League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga, and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Serie A have learned that a few English, Spanish and Italian clubs may be planning to announce their creation of a closed, so-called Super League. If this were to happen, we wish to reiterate that we — UEFA, the English FA, RFEF, FIGC, the Premier League, LaLiga, Lega SerieA but also FIFA and all our member associations - will remain united in our efforts to stop this cynical project, a project that is founded on the self-interest of a few clubs at a time when society needs solidarity more than ever. We will consider all measures available to us, at all levels, both judicial and sporting in order to prevent this happening. Football is based on open competitions and sporting merit; it cannot be any other way. As previously announced by FIFA and the six Federations, the clubs concerned will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic, European or world level, and their players could be denied the opportunity to represent their national teams. We thank those clubs in other countries, especially the French and German clubs, who have refused to sign up to this. We call on all lovers of football, supporters and politicians, to join us in fighting against such a project if it were to be announced. This persistent self-interest of a few has been going on for too long. Enough is enough.
Other Information:
- Florentino Perez to be Chairman
- Henry, Glazer, Kroenke and Agnelli to be vice-chairmen
- Supposedly there is a £4.6bn financing deal from JP Morgan to fund the change
- BBC Sport: "Stan Kroenke was eager for the Super League to go through. He was Perez's best 'mate' in this. Kroenke sees Super League as the way to make Arsenal "the biggest team in the world"."
- The UK Government has released a statement on the proposed ESL
- UEFA are supposedly preparing a €60 billion lawsuit against the ESL founders
- A Women's equivalent of the competition will be founded also
- Arsenal and the other 11 founding clubs have left the ECA
- UK Government considering drawing up punitive legislation for ESL Clubs
- ESL Clubs in current European competition, including Arsenal, are likely to be expelled with immediate effect.
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