As it outlines new plans to replace Champions League with an 80-team format, the hated European Super League is returning.
A 60–80 team league called the European Super League has new ideas to take the place of the Champions League.
A22, a Madrid-based sister company of the European Super League, has announced their "10 principles for a European football league". These include an open, multi-divisional competition with 60 to 80 teams, participation based on annual sporting merit, open qualification based on domestic performance, and a minimum of 14 guaranteed European matches each season. The new format would also support domestic leagues, women's football, the fans, financial sustainability, and the health of the players. The publication of the "principles" brought scoffing and dismissal from Spain's La Liga. La Liga chief executive Javier Tebas published a cartoon depicting Super League as the Big Bad Wolf and European football as Little Red Riding Hood.
Uefa revealed plans for a new Champions League structure which will consist of 36 teams in a single division playing ten group-stage matches. In December, the European Court of Justice sided with Uefa, finding that EU competition law was in line with the restrictions Uefa and Fifa possess over football.
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