Barcelona, Real Madrid Among Europes 12 Biggest Football Clubs Form Breakaway Super League. All You Need To Know
Barcelona, Real Madrid Among Europe’s 12 Biggest Football Clubs Form Breakaway Super League. All You Need To Know
Real Madrid club president Florentino Perez has been appointed as the first chairman of the Super League. Here are all the details you need to know about the European Super League.
The footballing world went chaotic on Monday when 12 of the biggest clubs in Europe announced the formation of the European Super League. European giants – Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United are among the clubs to become the founding members. Fans across the world slammed the clubs to join the league as it will not have qualification criteria to play and the budding clubs in world football will suffer from them.
Real Madrid club president Florentino Perez has been appointed as the first chairman of the Super League. The breakaway league will cast a threat over the UEFA Champions League which is the biggest tournament in European football currently.
What All You Need to Know About European Super League:
The breakaway league will include 12 of Europes biggest clubs: Manchester United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Juventus, AC Milan and Inter Milan.
The founding clubs will get a huge monetary boost after joining the league as they will receive “a one-time payment of the order of 3.5 billion euros”.
The Super League games will be played midweek and would begin in August between 20 teams. The committee will propose the league to other football giants soon.
There will be 15 founding clubs in the league who will get automatically qualify each year and the other five will be drawn from invitations “through a system based on their performance from the previous season”
No clubs from Ligue 1 (French League) and Bundesliga (German League) have signed the contract with the Super League so far.
Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund have already rejected the proposal from Super League.
The sudden announcement of the league has garnered widespread criticism, including from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
FIFA also expressed its disapproval of a European Super League and states it is outside of the international football structures and not respecting the aforementioned principles.
UEFA took a firm stand against the breakaway league and said “As previously announced by FIFA and the six Confederations, the clubs concerned will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic, European or world level, and their players could be denied the opportunity to represent their national teams.”
Several former players like Garry Neville and Rio Ferdinand have openly bashed the clubs who have become the founding members of the Super League.
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