COMMUNIQUÉ AFTER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
New 'attack' on the Super League: More than 40 leagues demonstrate against the project
Published:21/04/2023 - 19:45h
Updated:21/04/2023 - 19:45h
From all over Europe they continue in their campaign to prevent that at some point the European Super League can become a reality and this weekend they have confirmed it again
This Friday, to the term of the 46ª General Assembly of European Leagues celebrated in Prague, the association has made public a communiqué in which without quoting directly to the Superliga reiterate his bet by the current model of national competitions, with promotions and descents. With this message adds a factor more against of the project in which they still follow FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus.
In the conjoint statement, signed by the 40 professional leagues that form the grouping, show his "unconditional support" to the pyramid of the European football, urging to "all the parts interested European to that they ratify" these "holy principles". Besides, they have wanted to stand out the competitiveness of his respective championships and his preservation in the future.
The maximum tournaments apersonan against of a new model
A total of 40 European leagues (including the ones of Spain, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Low Countries, Austria and Portugal) have issued this Friday an official note in which they represent his firm conviction of the European Leagues and his members, deciding to "urge all the parts interested European to that they ratify these principles".
In the continuation of the informative note, the European professional leagues send a conclusive message against the Superliga, explaining that "the football generates an economy that is socially responsible for the citizenship of all Europe. We can not allow that the football weaken or see loomed by economic temptations in the short term neither by materialisations of world-wide power".
They want to continue with what has given them result
In a moment in which it is very near to arrive the final sentence on the feasibility of the project, this organisation explains that "any attempt to show a similar aim by part of private entities is ilusorio". "Without objectivity established and the inclusion of the parts interested, some surroundings futbolístico healthy is a mirage and is unsustainable. The European football has to continue keeping joined with firmness to achieve a future positive development of the sport and of the society", ensure.
Equally they leave an explanation in which they detail that the professional leagues of Europe engage with the following principles:
- Open competitions with promotion and alone descent to level of national championship.
- A system of classification for the European competitions based in the sportive merit through the pertinent annual classification of the national competitions.
- A system of just solidarity and balanced that it aspire to support the development of the sport in his inferior levels, that base in the training, the development and the participation.
- A structure of good gobernanza and dialogue that involve to the main parts interested of the economy of the football to have voice and impact.
- Give a just balance for the interests of the parts legitimate in the processes of taking of European decisions, in place of organisations with ends purely yielding.