Twelve soccer giants have announced plans to form another “Super League”, dropping a shocker on the football world. The picture shows Bayern Munich winning the 2020 UEFA Champions League gold cup.
Including Real Madrid, Manchester United, Juventus and other professional football giants announced the formation of a separate super league, the system is more like the NBA and so on rather than the European Football Association (UEFA) for nearly a century model and structure, for the international football world threw a super shock bomb.
Despite the UEFA’s threat to ban participating teams and players, the 12 soccer giants announced plans to form another “Super League” (Super League). FIFA and the leaders of England and France are opposed to the idea.
The 12 giants insist on pushing a new system to make more money to offset the impact of the epidemic
The Super League organizers said in a statement, “AC Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid, and Tottenham Hotspur, all have joined as founding teams.”
Another 12 teams from the English Premier League, La Liga, Yiga, the remaining five major European professional leagues in the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 is not yet a team to participate. The Super League founding teams are expected to receive 3.5 billion euros “to support their infrastructure investment plans and to offset the impact of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.”
The statement said it would invite three other teams to join the founding teams before the first season of the Super League kicks off, and the matches will debut as soon as possible.
The European Football Confederation said earlier today that the players of the 12 teams involved in the creation of the Super League would face an international ban, describing it as a “cynical plan founded on the self-interest of a few teams”. However, the 12 teams insisted that the new system would give a new impetus to the football world.
Joel Glazer, co-chairman of Manchester United, who is vice-chairman of the Super League, said, “The Super League will bring the world’s biggest curry teams and players together to play each other during the season, opening a new chapter in European soccer, ensuring world-class competition and facilities and providing financial support for the wider soccer pyramid.”
● Operation of the Super League
According to the plan, the Super League will operate as a regular tournament with 20 teams, 15 founding teams will be put together as a regular annual squad and the other 5 teams will participate by invitation, with the invitation based on last season’s performance.
The first phase is scheduled to begin in August and will be played every week, followed by a playoff, and the entire season is expected to last until May of the next year, when the championship trophy will be awarded. “The New York Times noted that the Super League would operate more like the NBA and NFL than the existing system laid down by the European Football Association since the 1950s.
The announcement of the Super League comes just hours after the UEFA met in Switzerland and announced reforms to the Champions League, including an expansion from 32 to 36 teams and two “wild card” qualifications.
The benefits will exceed those of the Champions League
The existing structure of European professional football is to subsidize domestic leagues, for example, the league in England subsidizes English clubs, the Spanish league subsidizes Western domestic clubs, and the top teams of each country then compete intercontinentally in the Champions League and Europa League to fight for the real international kings.
The current system allows the big clubs to make money in their respective leagues by pooling hundreds of millions of Euros in TV broadcast and sponsorship revenue each year, and to receive millions of Euros in additional revenue when they reach the Champions League, while the smaller clubs supplement their revenue by playing against the big boys.
The Super League will bring about a sea change in European soccer, as the giants of the English Premier League, La Liga, and Liga MX will instead compete across borders in the Super League, out of the Champions League, with the annual revenue split between the 20 teams. According to their announcement today, the Super League founding teams can share the money, about four times as much as the Champions League winning team in 2020.
AFP reports that if the Super League can turn in 3.5 billion euros, representing revenue that will be 3.2 billion euros higher than the UEFA Champions League, Europa League (commonly known as Europa League) and European Super Cup (European Super Cup) television broadcast revenue in the 2018-2019 season Higher.
FIFA warns those who play in unapproved leagues are banned from playing world football
In a statement, FIFA said it does not approve of “the creation of a league in Europe outside the International Football Organization, behind closed doors, without respecting the principles that should be in place”. The FIFA stressed the unity of the world football community and called on all parties involved in this heated debate to discuss the goals that would benefit the football world in a calm, constructive and balanced dialogue, demonstrating the spirit of unity in the football world.
The top brass of the UEFA have been discussing all weekend how to stop the Super League, including banning outgoing clubs from playing in their respective domestic leagues and banning players from representing their home countries in international matches.
FIFA, the international soccer federation, has earlier this year stood in solidarity with the European Football Association, warning that any player who plays in an unapproved league or league will be banned from participating in FIFA tournaments, including the World Cup.
Reuters reported that French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson both issued statements in support of the UEFA and condemned the creation of the Super League.
The Super League organizers said they hope to sit down with the UEFA and FIFA to avoid a civil war in soccer.
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