By New European Super League (ESL). update.
Sunday night 12 European football clubs announced the formation of a new competition. The Super League, to widespread criticism from governments, their own domestic leagues. Football federations as well as Uefa and supporters around.
It would be the biggest shake-up in the history of the European game although. Uefa has said it will fight what it called “a cynical project founded on the self-interest of a few clubs”. Here we look at what the 12 clubs are proposing.
Who are the 12 ‘founding members’?
Milan, Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Tottenham.
What about the big German and French clubs?
They have said that they are currently not interesting in joining the project. Those clubs include Bayern Munich, last season’s Champions League winners, and Paris Saint-Germain, the beaten finalists who will play Manchester City in one of the Champions League semi-finals.
Will the 12 clubs leave their domestic leagues?
At the moment they are hoping to remain playing in those competitions but the leagues have all issued strong-worded statements condemning the clubs and the new breakaway league.
The ESL said the founding clubs had agreed to establish a “new midweek competition” with teams continuing to “compete in their respective national leagues”.
Uefa, Europe’s governing body, reiterated this warning on Sunday when it said players involved would be banned from all other competitions at domestic, European or world level and could be prevented from representing their national teams.
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