2023-12-21
The Spanish Football League (LaLiga) stated this Thursday that the Super League project, which is proposed as an alternative to the current Champions League, is “selfish and elitist”, after hearing the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union ( CJEU).
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“Today more than ever we remember that the Super League is a selfish and elitist model,” LaLiga stated in a message on its social networks, recalling that “any format that is not totally open, with direct access, year after year, via domestic leagues, “It is a closed model.”
The CJEU considered this Thursday that UEFA rules relating to the authorization of other tournaments such as the European Super League were contrary to competition law.
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However, the Court specifies that this does not mean that the Super League project “must necessarily be authorized”, stressing that it is ruling in a general way on the rules of FIFA and UEFA, and not on that specific project.
What the CJEU says is that “there must be transparent, clear, objective rules for the approval of competitions,” wrote the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, on his official X account, formerly Twitter.
“And that there should be an objective regulatory structure that requires conditions comparable to the entire sector, but that is not left to the free discretion of the specific leaders of FIFA and UEFA, because there would be a situation of abuse of dominant power,” Thebes added.
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“The CJEU says that the rules for admission of FIFA and UEFA competitions are transparent, but not that they must admit the Super League,” he insisted.
“On the contrary, it points out that the criteria for admission to competitions have to be transparent, objective and NON-DISCRIMINATORY. Principles precisely incompatible with the Super League,” said the president of LaLiga.
“Already in 2022, UEFA established a procedure to authorize new competitions that the SUPERLIGA can attend,” concluded Tebas.
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2023-12-21 16:36:40
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