UEFA slams the door on the Super League project

Published:8/11/2022 - 17:41h

Updated:8/11/2022 - 18:11h

The company commissioned of the project of the Superliga received this Tuesday a new hit against of the possible tournament. The UEFA, with several representatives of Leagues and European teams, communicated again his disagreement

The UEFA has reiterated east his rejection to the Superliga after the meeting been supported by Bern Reichart, CEO and representative of To22 Sports, the company promoter of the project promoted by Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Juventus to create a new competition of clubs to continental level. With a communiqué in his distinct platforms the European organism has reaffirmed his position in this regard.

UEFA and the European football community were united in defending the included European sports model - based on openness, solidarity and meritocracy - when they met in Nyon today with the private agency that promotes the self-styled Super League.

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— UEFA (@UEFA) November 8, 2022

After the celebrated meeting in the headquarters of the UEFA in presence among others of Aleksander Ceferin, Javier Thebes (president of LaLiga) or Nasser To the-Khelaïfi, (president of the ECA and of the PSG), the maximum organism of the continental football has issued an official communiqué reinforcing his posture and loading against the Superliga.

"The responsible maxima of the UEFA, headed by the President Aleksander Čeferin, and the high representatives of the national leagues, the clubs, the players and the fans, underlined together that the opposition to the self-proclaimed 'Superliga' keeps on being today overwhelming, as it has been it from April of 2021", explains the start of the note.

"In accordance with the unit of the European football, the UEFA and the parts interested of the football participants went back to refuse unanimously the logic that sustenta projects like the ESL during the debate of today", continues the communiqué. "The participants took note, with surprise, of the affirmations of the general director of To22 Sports in the sense that this company does not represent to any club in quality any, included the three clubs that follow supporting openly the project.

"The foundations of the European football, that base in the opening, the solidarity and the meritocracia and serve to aims wider of the sportive principles and the interest of the society, in place to base in the privileges and the own rights", adds the UEFA, that values the support of the big political institutions against the Superliga.

"This approach has received the unanimous support of the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a wide backrest of the national governments, the public institutions and the parts interested of all the continent", finalises the communiqué of the UEFA, that equally will have to expect a failure of the European justice with regard to the project.

The assistants

Javier Thebes, LaLiga - President

Mathieu Moreuil, Premier League - Director of Relations with the International Football

Donata Hopfen, Deutsche Fußball Ties (DFL) - CEO

Luigi Of Siervo, Series To - President

Vincent Labrune, Tie of Football Professionnel (LFP) - President

Nasser To the-Khelaifi, President of the European Association of Clubs (ECA) / Member of the Executive Committee of the UEFA / President of Paris Saint-Germain

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, ECA - President honorario / Member of the Executive Committee of the UEFA

Oliver Kahn, ECA - Vice-president / CEO of the FC Bayern

Edwin Van der Sar, ECA - Vice-president / CEO of AFC Ajax

Dariusz Mioduski, ECA - Vice-president / President of Legia Warszawa

Aki Riihilahti, ECA - Vice-president / CEO of HJK Helsinki

Hans-Joachim Watzke, ECA - Member of the Together / CEO of the Borussia Dortmund

Miguel Ángel Gil, ECA - Member of the Together / CEO of the Athletic of Madrid

Michael Verschueren, ECA - Member of the Together / Board Directive of RSC Anderlecht

Sundays Soares of Oliveira, ECA - Member of the Board / CEO of SL Benfica

Dan Friedkin, ECA - Member of the Together / President of ACE Rome

Charlie Marshall, ECA - CEO

Luca Percassi, Atalanta BC - CEO