The Football Super League project, which was rendered unfeasible in 2021 and which led to the withdrawal of most of the founding clubs, is back, in a model that aims to bring together between 60 and 80 clubs.
The new proposal was presented by the company A22 Sports Management, promoter of the Superliga, which also owns three of the clubs in the original project, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus, and designed 10 principles on which it intends to base itself.
According to the statement released this Thursday, the organization has been in talks with “more than 50 football clubs and actors” about European competitions since October and is now defending an open model based on sporting merit.
“The European competition must be an open competition with multiple divisions, consisting of 60 to 80 teams and allow a sustainable distribution of income within the football pyramid”the company says in a statement.
Within the same point, participation is defended on the basis of sporting merit and without permanent members, as provided for in the previous model of the Superliga.
“The qualification system must be open, based on performance in national competitions, so that all clubs have access to the competition”they add.
The model also proposes a minimum of 14 matches for participants and when they play in the current Champions League, from the group stage, a maximum of 13 matches, if they reach the final.
“A better and more attractive European competition format would generate additional resources, and there is no doubt that the financial stability of clubs would significantly increase if they were guaranteed a minimum of 14 European matches per season”they point out.
The points listed in this new proposal also take into account women’s football, which needs “promotion and development”, as well as a solidarity mechanism, in which they want a minimum annual investment of €400 million in clubs outside European competitions.
In the statement, Bernd Reichart, general manager of A22 Sports Management, says he also experienced fear in the meetings he had with the clubs.
“I felt the fear of the clubs to demonstrate publicly against a system that threatens with sanctions, to prevent them from forming any kind of opposition”he indicated and reiterated the will of a new project to change the system.
Source: DN
