LALIGA demanded this Thursday from the European Commission “legislative measures” against the Super League football in order to “protect the stability and future of European football” and emphasized that The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) does not support the European Super League and that UEFA has already adopted a change to its rules in 2022 to allow new competitions, which adapts to what the CJEU now rules.

This organization, which unites Spanish professional football, expressed this opinion on social networks after the CEC opened the door to the Super League consider FIFA and UEFA rules illegal about the pre-authorization of club football competitions and that these bodies are abusing their “dominant position”.

In a statement, he said that while Super League promoters say the decision proves they are right, “the reality is that The CJEU has made it clear”, stating that “competition like the Super League project no need to have permission. Having received general questions about FIFA and UEFA rules, the Court does not rule on this specific project.”

LALIGA, the only league involved in the proceedings, welcomes these words, which it says are consistent with the official position expressed by 23 EU and EEA national governments, an unprecedented number, who have joined the football and sporting community as a whole to protect the football pyramid in the face of secessionist models such as that represented by the so-called European Super League.”

LALIGA noted that The European Football Super League is a “selfish and elitist model”and that the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) “disapproves” of this competition: “Today more than ever, we remember that the Super League is a selfish and elitist model,” he points out, before emphasizing: “ All”. A format that is not completely open, with direct access year after year through national leagues, is a closed model.”

“This proposal confirms what we have always said: Anyone can organize competitions outside of UEFA and FIFA.“It cannot be banned and no one questions it,” Javier Tebas, president of LALIGA, detailed in a statement.

Tebas clarified that “the judicial issue is that the conditions of these competitions comply with the UEFA and FIFA ecosystem, that is, there must be transparent, clear and objective rules for the approval of new competitions.”

A competition designed to “enrich the richest clubs”

According to LALIGA, the creation of competition designed to “enrich the richest clubs and concentrate power in the hands of a small number of privileged teams” will lead to ” loss of tens of thousands of jobs and will sharply reduce tax revenues to government coffers across the continent.”

An expert report prepared by KPMG notes that only in Spain has a project such as Super League will result in loss of 55% of income LALIGA and clubs, and will jeopardize an industry that generates more than 194,000 jobs and €8.39 billion in taxes per year, representing 1.44% of GDP.

“We ask the European Commission to activate the necessary mechanisms to introduce legislative measures that will protect European football from similar attacks in the future,” LALIGA concluded.