CONTROVERSIAL COMPETITION
The ten more recurrent questions on the Superliga
Published:19/04/2021 - 23:59h
Updated:20/04/2021 - 00:21h
The constitution of the Superliga has had diverse reactions. From the total supports until the strong critical. However, said competition has a lot of interrogantes
This Sunday announced the creation of the Superliga European, promoted by 12 of the most powerful clubs of Europe. The announcement has shaken the world of the football. From the highest instances of the same to level of leaders (FIFA and UEFA), until players and exjugadores, trainers and fans of the deport king. However, they exist a lot of questions on said competition. Here there are answers for some:
Who promotes the Superliga?
Twelve of the main European clubs: three of LaLiga (Barcelona, Real Madrid and Athletic of Madrid), the 'Big Six' of the Premier (Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham) and three Italians (Juventus, Milan and Inter). Until the moments, those that more promotion of the Superliga have done are the Madrid and the United. The Bayern Munich, the Borussia Dortmund and the PSG, have not inscribed , at least by the moment. The idea is to launch a competition of 20 teams, 15 of them fixed.
How much would earn the clubs of the Superliga?
Only for participating would receive a total of 300 million euros. The clubs founders also will be proprietary of the league through a private signature and will deliver 3.500 million euros for infrastructures and to recover his teams of the impact of the pandemia of the coronavirus.
Where it will be the headquarters of the organism that will carry it out?
Still it has not specified where it will be the headquarters of the Superliga
In which competition is inspired?
In the format of the Euroliga of basketball, where the most powerful clubs struggle between yes with a format of liguilla. The teams desmarcaron in his day of the FIBA to create beside the ULEB a new with a greater interest.
Who funds the Suerliga?
The financial signature American JPMorgan has announced this Monday that has funded the Superliga. According to some informations, said company would have engaged to fund the project beside Key Main, which is a society linked to Borja Meadow and the one who would be usual collaborator of Florentino Pérez, president of the Madrid.
Why the clubs happen to this competition?
The first cause is on economic grounds. The fact to have less participants and a greater interest by the parties repercutiría in greater income to the clubs that participate.
How it would work the Superliga?
With a total of 20 teams, of which 15 will be fixed and divided in 2 groups of 10, all against all, with parties of gone and turn and in total 18 days. All would contest between week, by what the participants will not have conflict of schedules with the domestic leagues.
Of the 1º to the 3º of each group, would access to the quarter-finals, and the 2 remaining squares for said round would contest them to him in a playoff'. Those that find in the chamber and fifth place of each group. Fourth and semifinals, will have split of gone and turn. But the final will be an only party.
When it would contest ?
Between August and May. Still I do not know precise the season in which it will initiate
How it would affect to leagues eurotorneos and selections?
The clubs participants could follow participating in the domestic leagues, because the Superliga would play always between week. However, said competition goes in in collision with the current European competitions, to which is born like alternative.
Which big teams do not support the Superliga and why?
Until the moments, the Bayern Munich and the Borussia Dortmund (that this Monday refused publicly the project and indicated that the club muniqués neither wants to add to the same) have not adhered . In fact, the Federation of Football of Germany has tildado the project of "selfish".
The PSG for now neither. The interests of the combined French are directly joined to his owners in Qatar and to the channel of television BeIn Sports, also property of the sovereign bottom qatarí, also is associated to the UEFA to spread the Champions in several countries.
This is little likely that occur, because after the bad relations that the PSG had with the UEFA, with the threat to exclude him of the European competitions by not being according to the rules of balance financial, now that the situation with the UEFA is controlled would not want to go back to complicate the situation.
But the postures could vary. Other historical like Ajax, Carry, Benfica or Lyon, as well as the Seville, Leipzig or Naples, will have to win his classification to access to the Superliga. The criteria for such end still do not know .