The European Association of Clubs (ECA), which includes all the top names in European football, said Sunday evening to be “strongly opposed to a closed Superleague model”, shortly before the officialization of this private project, competitor of the UEFA Champions League. “The ECA, as the representative body of 246 leading clubs across Europe, reaffirms its commitment to work on the development of the UEFA club competition model, together with UEFA, for the cycle starting in 2024, “the ECA wrote in a statement on its Twitter account.
The ECA, often seen as the voice of the most powerful European clubs, took this strong position just before twelve big European clubs announced the launch of this “Super League”. A position all the more surprising given that among these clubs is Juventus Turin, chaired by the Italian Andrea Agnelli, who was also the president of the ECA.
But the Italian club said it had left the association and that its president had in the same movement resigned from the presidency of the association. Andrea Agnelli has also resigned from the UEFA executive committee of which he was a member, a Juventus spokesperson told AFP, confirming the “Old Lady “‘s membership in the new” Super League “.
ECA wants to work on a “new structure for European football”
“The ECA refers to the position adopted at its executive committee on April 16, namely that it supports the commitment to work with UEFA on a new structure for European football as a whole after 2024,” said share added the association, inviting UEFA to continue on this path, as planned, during its executive committee scheduled for Monday morning.
Taking the lead in the face of the big clubs’ project, UEFA threatened to exclude the dissident teams on Sunday, straining the atmosphere before this crucial meeting on Monday for the post-2024 future of its Champions League, directly in competition with this project. tournament closed. Fifa also signaled its disapproval following the announcement of the Superleague.
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