How Would The New Super League ACTUALLY Work? | Explained

The Super League is back. Yes, just under 2 years since the last iteration was announced in April 2021 and collapsed within 2 days, the idea of a European Super League is back on the table.

On the 9th February 2023, A22 Sports Management, a company created to promote a revamped European Super League announced its proposals, with Chief Executive Bernd Reinhart promising an open competition with no permanent members, based on sporting performance, with the 2021 version receiving the majority of backlash for failing to guarantee this.

But why were the clubs behind the 2021 attempt, most notably Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus refusing to accept defeat and are their restructured plans more likely to succeed? Today on FD Explained we put the revamped European Super League under the microscope and ask; will it actually work?

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[gotluckyjust]

I mean there would be room to replace the club world Cup realistically. I dont think many if any fans pay much attention to that. Just like a champions only cup of the 32 biggest leagues in Europe/World pure knockout

[Tozzlt]

It's amazing how the bigger clubs in these countries have blamed the premier league and somehow the greed of real madrid and bayern munich etc gets ignored. clubs like villareal should look to get an equal amount of the tv rights, instead of getting shafted.

[marklever]

Maybe if Barca and real had distributed tv money amongst the league instead of taking it all for themselves, they’d have a better product to sell

[Johnny-uxyi]

While I am still not sure about the Super League if and if it will ever work (unless they are willing to let teams outside from Top 5 leagues take part based from domestic league performance, have knockout rounds etc) but the harsh reality is that UEFA is already ruining the Champions League by applying the Swiss model starting with the 2024/25 season.

Not to mention the massive disparity between the Premier League and other European Leagues.

[Panda-iupn]

The thing is the super League isn't better than uefa and uefa are just as bad as them. Both would drastically increase games to be played and focus on money rather than fans or players l. However the disparity between the prem and other European leagues needs to be looked at and a solution must be found otherwise teams other than bayern, Milan, Madrid, Barca and a couple other big teams would be lost.

[GIBBO]

Why don’t other leagues try and follow the PL’s blueprint? Splitting the tv revenue equally among all 20 teams is an absolute must, it makes EVERYONE better, in turn making the league better overall and a better product to watch and sell to the neutrals

[MrMultichris]

Super League already exists

It's named Premier League

[Maj]

Don't want super league anywhere near the beautiful game 😤

[jamesmcconnell]

The ignorance of clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona is outstanding. Perhaps they should focus their energies on making La Liga a more competitive league, and therein a better product, instead of lazily trying to capitalise on the popularity of the PL. A good start might be to insist on a more even distribution of TV revenue; 21/22 both Real & Barca banked €160m each from TV revenue. In comparison Atleti (who won the league) banked €130m, whilst Sevilla (who finished just 2pts behind Barca) only took home €88m - almost half that of the team that only just finished above them. Contrast that with the PL 20/21, where top placed city took home £155m vs 20th place Sheffield United’s £95m.

[he_football]

Why should the whole footballing world help Real Barca and Juve stay rich? They should focus on making their own leagues competitive

[AlbertSpice]

Barca, Juve and Real: "Instead of supporting our own league, looking at how we can improve the league and teams in it and get better marketing, we are just going to blame the Premier League for our financial imbalance. We are gonna destroy financial disparity by creating The Super League where only the richest get money whilst the poor don't get any money, creating and even bigger financial disparity. Not only that, we are also going to add more games so every footballer never get any rest. Yes. We are going to extinguish the fire with an even bigger fire."

[gaspar]

I’m a Benfica fan and to be honest the super league proposal does not help any team outside the top 5 European leagues like Ajax, PSV, Benfica, Porto or Sporting.
It is clearly made to satisfy the economic demands of giants like Real Madrid or Barcelona.
I think every country should follow England’s example and try to make its league more competitive, because what happens is that the Spanish league for instance is very easy for the 2 best teams and it does not attract a lot of interest from other countries. In order to do so, every league should basically distribute the money more fairly, as in the PL since 1992.
I would love to see teams like Benfica win the champions league, so I think uefa should also have its role here. They should clearly put a maximum limit on player’s transfer values. Football is turning into greed and it’s not nice to see it. I think the PL clubs contributed to that, but to be honest there is no other option with clubs like Real Madrid or PSG as their main competitors. UEFA should act fast

[Roxbry]

Great video, but reading these comments makes me laugh at how prem fans that never follow leagues outside of the UCL & EPL suddenly become financial experts that know everything going on in other leagues.

[vigneshjayakumar]

I believe the Prem league is bringing more money cuz it's very well marketed.
As an Indian I easily watch more Prem games more than others cuz timings are more better.
The prems easily Got better pre match shows and commentary compared to others.
I almost always see memes on Prem league even if they're not from the top 6. But rarely do I see memes from other leagues. I just mean there's just much more coverage and activity in the Prem.

[salsabila]

I'd want the Club World Cup replaced with more teams, that'll spread the money better and also more people would watch. 6 continental champions, top 5 European league champions, plus 1 each from other continents. That's 16 teams. 4 groups, Quarter finals and so on. Reduce top 5 European leagues to 18 teams, take away the second domestic cups in those leagues.

A tournament on sporting merit (champions mainly), big teams stop playing second domestic cup that they'd like to avoid, or possibly keep the second domestic cup and give dispensation for Club World Cup participants to field fringe and youth players.

[KaushikAdhikari]

Let's go and beat the PL financially! From a Juve fan! No need for PL clubs if they don't like it

[willbentley]

The Premier League played the long game in distributing cash between the clubs to create a more interesting and engaging league, rather than create a closed shop like La Liga and Serie A to create super clubs that would win the Champions league. Now Florentino Pérez can't handle that it actually makes shit TV and people actually want a competitive league. This is their last ditch attempt to save their monopoly.

[thMandalorian]

The gap between the Premier League and rest of Europe is ridiculous, if the ESL fixes this then I’m all for it

[samuelschonenberger]

Brighton and Hove Albion is higher in the Deloitte money league than Benfica? Doesn't like 60% of Portugal support them? And they have the best transfers

[tholav]

I'm crying when people are seeing "other leagues used to do it too"
Even when the Serie A was the best in the world or La Liga, also PL teams were spending BIG money like Chelsea/United in the 00's, Newcastle in the 90's, Arsenal, ...

The problem here is that ONLY the Premier League can spend money, it's absolutely ridiculous what European football is becoming. And while it's fairplay to them to have developed their league well it's also because they completely sold their soul. The fact that entire states are buying English clubs is absolutely ridiculous and they don't even follow the FFP rules either