Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, and Tottenham of the EPL
Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid of La Liga
AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Juventus of Serie A
And there are 8 more clubs rumored to join, but they haven't committed. In response, the EUFA, as well as the English, Italian, and Spanish Federation threatened to ban the clubs. Sauces, cause it's getting saucy:
https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... per-league
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2021/4 ... -with-bans
"AC Milan, Arsenal FC, Atlético de Madrid, Chelsea FC, FC Barcelona, FC Internazionale Milano, Juventus FC, Liverpool FC, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid CF and Tottenham Hotspur have all joined as Founding Clubs. It is anticipated that a further three clubs will join ahead of the inaugural season, which is intended to commence as soon as practicable...
[Format]20 participating clubs with 15 Founding Clubs and a qualifying mechanism for a further five teams to qualify annually based on achievements in the prior season. Midweek fixtures with all participating clubs continuing to compete in their respective national leagues, preserving the traditional domestic match calendar which remains at the heart of the club game...
European football’s governing body UEFA has warned clubs linked to a breakaway Super League that they face being banned from domestic and international competitions if they set up a rival to the Champions League. In a joint statement on Sunday with Spanish, English and Italian leagues and federations, UEFA said it will consider “all measures”, including the courts, in opposition to plans for a breakaway competition.
“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, UEFA said. UEFA is due to sign off on its own plans for an expanded and restructured Champions League on Monday but less than 24 hours before the meeting reports emerged of a new attempt at creating a rival competition involving the continent’s top clubs.
So, who's NSG supporting, the super-wealthy clubs or the super-wealthy UEFA? Personally, as long as the clubs continue to be dedicated to the domestic leagues, I don't see an issue. In the Champions League, a club only gets six guaranteed games, and seven games as the teams advance, which they may or may not play. With the new league, the teams get 18 games guaranteed. Furthermore, why's it the clubs' duty to subsidize other soccer teams from other countries?
I'm also wondering if teams are required to suit up their best squads for the Champions League. If Barcelona has El Clasico upcoming with Real Madrid, and playing against Genk beforehand, it'd be dumb to suit up the best squad against Genk.
I know there's a soccer thread on NSG, but I think that the European Super League deserves a thread of its own. So, NSG, let's hear it!
Edit: Bombadil correctly pointed out that the teams cannot play in their domestic leagues if they play in the Super League. I think that the domestic leagues should trump the Super League, so in addition to answer the OP, here's a hypothetical: would you rather have the Champions League or the Super League?
Edit #2: excellent summary from Outer Sparta:
Outer Sparta wrote:Here's all the battle lines being drawn:
- The big clubs all want to join the ESL because it would get the more money.
- UEFA opposes it because they would lose a lot of money (with the big teams breaking away)
- The leagues all oppose it because they would lose a lot of money (same reasoning as UEFA)
- FIFA [covertly supports] it but largely pretends to oppose it but behind the scenes they want it to happen because it's FIFA and they're corrupt.
Basically none of those aforementioned interest groups oppose it out of principle, but because their finances and revenue would be impacted.
Edit #3: Archie disagrees with the FIFA claim earlier and provides a counterargument, using PSG's Qatari ownership as an example:
The Archregimancy wrote:Several people in the thread have expressed scepticism over whether FIFA are really opposed to the new league. I suspect that they are, largely because it A) undermines their overall control of the game and B) it undermines their attempts to grow the FIFA-controlled FIFA Club World Cup. Any deal with the Super League would have to be negotiated either alongside UEFA or over the strong objections of UEFA, and it's difficult to see how that would work. That's not necessarily a defence of FIFA, only a note that they'll naturally oppose anything that undermines their control of the game or their ability to control the money flowing from the game; the new league potentially does both. The big clue is the refusal of Qatar-owned PSG to join the new league; perhaps they're playing a waiting game, but it seems that, at least for now, next year's World Cup means more to both Qatar (and FIFA) than the European Super League; PSG's ownership seem to be acting accordingly.
If I see an interesting post, I just might add it to the OP.