European Super League
Failure of ESL has ‘improved trust and understanding with Uefa’ says ECA’s Marshall
European Club Association chief executive Charlie Marshall looks back on the European Super League plot and explains the club representative body’s role in shaping competition reform through its new joint venture with Uefa. Ben Cronin reports.
European Super League holdouts set to launch fresh effort to revive concept
FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus, the three football clubs still actively engaged in the plot to form a European Super League, are reportedly planning to relaunch the project this week and will set…
ESL still ‘poses existential threat to European football’ warns Uefa
Uefa has warned that the European Super League continues to represent an ‘existential threat to the foundations of European football’ because of an ongoing court action originally started by all 12 of …
Request for accelerated ECJ ruling on Uefa’s Super League stance ‘rejected’
A request from a Madrid court for the European Court of Justice to make a quick decision on whether Uefa is in breach of European Union competition law by preventing football clubs from pursuing the proposed…
Premier League’s ‘big six’ to pay £22m fine for Super League fiasco
The Premier League’s six biggest teams will pay a collective £22m (€25.4m/$31m) "goodwill gesture" as part of the settlement for their involvement in the proposed European Super League.
Premier League ‘close to agreeing’ Super League punishments
Football’s English Premier League is said to be close to reaching a settlement agreement with the six clubs that signed up to join the failed European Super League breakaway project.
Luca Ferrari | Does Uefa have the right to punish breakaway ESL clubs?
Luca Ferrari, head of the global sports practice for legal firm Withersworldwide, examines whether Uefa is within its legal right to punish the three clubs that have refused to repent their involvement in the breakaway European Super League
Uefa to ‘robustly’ defend itself against Super League legal challenge
Uefa, football’s European governing body, has vowed to “robustly” defend its position after the European Court of Justice confirmed it had received a referral from a Madrid court over a claim that Uefa …
James Paul | Buying low: Why investment will continue to flow into football
James Paul, head of sport finance at Blackstar Capital, discusses why investors will be regarding European football with interest in the coming months – even with the flattening of the ESL project
European Super League trio fire latest salvo at Uefa
Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Juventus have continued on the offensive over their European Super League plot by stating they will not accept “any form of coercion or intolerable pressure” following Uef…
Szymanski: Relegation causes most of football’s financial problems, but I wouldn’t get rid of it
SportBusiness has conducted a series of interviews with senior figures from European football, asking them to define a ‘sustainable’ economic model for the game on the continent. In the fourth article in the series, football economist and author Stefan Szymanski argues a degree of financial instability is an inevitable part of European football.
Turner: Keeping the collective model is football’s biggest challenge
SportBusiness has conducted a series of interviews with senior figures from European football, asking them to define a ‘sustainable’ economic model for the game on the continent. In the third article in the series, Frank Dunne speaks to Stuart Turner who served as the Football Association’s head of broadcast, from 2004 to 2011, and commercial director, from 2011 to 2016.
Breakaway ESL owners ‘need to be re-educated’ says Uefa’s former head of governance Phillips
SportBusiness has conducted a series of interviews with senior figures from European football, asking them to define a ‘sustainable’ economic model for the game on the continent. In the second article in the series, Alex Phillips, a former head of strategic affairs and head of governance and compliance for Uefa, delivers his roadmap for change.
EFL’s Parry: ‘We want all our clubs to survive without owner funding’
SportBusiness has conducted a series of interviews with senior figures from European football, asking them to define a ‘sustainable’ economic model for the game on the continent. In the first article in the series, Rick Parry, chairman of the English Football League (EFL) outlines a three-point plan for the professional game in England and calls for more transparency from the game's governing bodies.
Madrid court wants ECJ to rule on Uefa, Fifa’s Super League stance
The European Court of Justice has been called upon to determine whether Fifa and Uefa, football’s world and European governing bodies, respectively, are in breach of European Union competition law by p…
Uefa opens disciplinary investigation into Super League holdouts
Uefa has opened an official disciplinary investigation into the three clubs yet to drop out of the breakaway European Super League, with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus potentially facing a two-year…
Juventus risking Serie A exclusion for Super League stance
Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Gabriele Gravina has maintained Juventus will be ejected from domestic competitions if it maintains its commitment to the European Super League project
Manchester United owners offer to share ‘key decisions’ with fans, as major sponsorship deal collapses
The American owners of Premier League club Manchester United have signalled their intention to give fans a greater say in the club’s future in the wake of the aborted European Super League project.