The eternal conflict between UEFA and FIFA against the Super League is decided this Thursday

The world of the football is to only hours to know the verdict of the Upper Court of European Justice (TJUE) around the big project of the Superliga European, an initiative that, according to his main impulsores, looks for to break the monopoly of the UEFA and the FIFA.

How it started the project of the Superliga European?

This project was announced on 19 April 2021 and had the backrest of 12 big clubs of the European continent: Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Athletic of Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Juventus of Turín, Inter of Milan and Milan. In this sense, Florentino Pérez appeared like president of the organisation, whereas Andrea Agnelli and Joel Glazer occupied the charges of vice-presidents.

The Superliga European also surfaced like an option to nourish the economy of the clubs, since the teams participants would deliver 3.500 million euros to improve his installations and face up to the impact of the pandemia of the COVID-19, bottoms that would be contributed by the bank of investment JP Morgan.

The opposition of the FIFA and the UEFA

However, the initiative found quickly the opposition of the UEFA and the FIFA, those who left clear, through a communiqué, that any club that aventurara to participate in this competition would be expelled so much of his national league as of the international competitions in which they were participating. The same would apply for the players that formed part of the teams, those who would be marginados of any championship under the denomination UEFA-FIFA, including, of course, the Glass of the World.

This caused a fear generalised that derived in a massive retreat of the teams grieve two days afterwards, on 21 April. Nine of the 12 teams participants desvincularon: Athletic of Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Inter of Milan and Milan. Only they remained at the front the Juventus, the one who finally would withdraw the past six June, and the Real Madrid and the FC Barcelona, clubs that still keep adhered to the initiative. In front of the evident disaster of the project, east went in in a state of suspension.

The judicial lawsuit of the Superliga against the UEFA and the FIFA

Further of the sportive resolution, this unchained a judicial lawsuit between the FIFA and the UEFA with the Superliga. This last decided to sue to both organisms in front of the Court of the Mercantile N.º 17, arguing that his behaviour was anticompetitivo and went against of the European norms of competition. This demand finished being elevated like a question prejudicial in front of the 'TJUE' on 13 May 2021.

It was not but until the 11 and 12 July 2022 that the 'TJUE' celebrated the audience of the case and, five months afterwards, on 15 December 2022, the general lawyer, Athanasios Rantos, issued his conclusions that, by the moment, favoured to the UEFA and the FIFA, when considering that both organisms can veto to the clubs if they consider it convenient. Although these conclusions are not vinculantes, are used to to be backed by the referred judicial body.

Voucher recalcar that in all east wrap judicial, whose verdict will know on 21 December, will continue much more there, since in this moment the European court is treating a question prejudicial. That is to say, only it will answer to the cuestionamiento made by the Spanish court that carries the case of the Superliga, around if the FIFA and the UEFA have the power to authorise or no new international competitions of clubs and to loom with sanctions to the competitions that do not authorise. With base in the answers that obtain, will follow with his judicial procedure and will dictate sentence.

How it would be the format of the Superliga European?

In the meantime, until there is not a resolution, the project, relanzado in October of 2022 through a company called To22 Sports Management, whose CEO is Bernd Reichart, is still in foot. In fact, until the moment, between the diverse changes that has experienced the format of the competition, the last, that dates of February of 2023 when it published the self-evident for the resolution of the proposal, left in clear that the tournament would be an open competition that would consist of several divisions and between 60 and 80 teams, with promotions and descents based in the merits.

This is distant notably of the initial format consisted in a semiclosed championship in which they would participate 20 clubs: the 12 founders, those who would have his contingent ensured independently of his results, and to these would add them three clubs invited, leaving the others five remaining squares for teams that showed merits to be able to participate in the main tournament.