European Super League: clubs' dream and national leagues' nightmare

The idea of a possible Superliga European has taken strength in the last weeks. The big clubs of the old continent see the foundation of a new competition like an opportunity to generate more than the double of income of what obtain with the Champions League and his national competitions, that would see extremely affected if the project finishes seeing the light. The FC Barcelona, by his part, would participate in the tournament.

The last bomb that launched Josep María Bartomeu before abandoning finally his charge like president of the Barcelona was to announce that it had approved the acceptance of the requirements to participate in a future Superliga European that would change "the financial perspectives" of the club blaugrana. And it go that it would do it.

Although the competition, that would have like official name 'European Premier', does not have a format one hundred percent defined still, already speak of the big income that would have the clubs of the 'elite' European that participate. Of agreement to the first informations, the team that result champion will obtain around billion of euros by television rights. When the Liverpool won the Champions League, in 2019, ingresó to his arks 111 millions. An abysmal difference.

That is the main reason by which clubs like the Manchester United, Liverpool and Real Madrid (without official confirmation) would be working to develop this project, that does not like him to the leaders of the federations neither mandators of the competitions nations. Up to now, as it has informed 'Sky Sports' does few days, the English clubs had attained to obtain a credit of the famous bank estadonidense JP Morgan of around five thousand million euros to begin his foundation, and they expect that they join more sponsors to the project in the next months when have more form.

The plan, up to now, is that the Superliga just start after the World-wide of Catar 2022, whose final would take place on 18 December of this year. In the project pose that they are 18 or 20 participants and that the format will be like the one of the NBA or Euroliga, that is to say, with a regular phase, so that the eight better teams classify for the fight by the title in a final to eight, as it happened in the Champions League happened in the middle of the pandemia of the COVID-19. Besides, in this competition the clubs founders would not descend by 20 years. A competition to the American style: totally enclosed.

Punishment for the national competitions

The purpose of a Superliga European, in general lines, is that the clubs go back richer. The 'big' of the old continent have argued in the last years with the UEFA to increase the income by participation in the Champions League. In the last meeting of the Association of European Clubs (ECA) in 2019, posed give him a new impulse to the Champions from the 2024, but with the new competition, would have negative consequences for the tournament of the 'Orejona'.

For the national leagues, will be still worse, because of safe, for the television chains will be much more interesting to transmit a Manchester United - Barcelona, that a meeting of teams recently risen to a national competition. Thus, the mandators have heaved his voice against of the project. Aleksander Ceferin, president of the UEFA, affirmed this Tuesday that from the organism that chairs "and the clubs engage us to build on this strength and not to destroy it to create a Superliga of 10, 12 or 24 clubs, that would be inevitably boring".