Among the twelve founding clubs there are also six English and three Spanish. ROME (ITALPRESS) – After a succession of voices and reactions, here is the official: the Superlega is born. “Twelve prestigious European football clubs today jointly announced an agreement to establish a new midweek football competition, the Super League, governed by the Founding Clubs,” reads a statement. The twelve clubs are: for Italy Inter, Juventus and Milan; for England Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham; for Spain Atletico Madrid, Barcelona and Real Madrid. These 12 clubs “have all joined as founding clubs. Three more clubs are expected to join as Founding Clubs before the inaugural season, which should start as soon as possible.” The clubs “hope to start consultations with Uefa and Fifa in order to work together and cooperate to achieve the best possible results for the new league and for football as a whole”. The competition format includes “20 participating clubs including 15 Founding Clubs and a qualification mechanism for 5 other teams, which will be selected each year based on the results achieved in the previous season; midweek matches with all participating clubs continuing to compete in the their respective national leagues, preserving the traditional calendar of matches at national level that will remain the heart of the inter-club competitions; starting in August, with the participating clubs divided into two groups of ten teams, who will play both home and away and with the The top three in each group who will automatically qualify for the quarter-finals. The fourth and fifth places will face each other in a round-trip match for the two remaining places available for the quarter-finals. The single-elimination format, played both at home that away, it will be used to reach the final in a dry match that will be disputed at the end of May in a neutral stage “. The president of the newly formed Superlega is Florentino Perez, with Andrea Agnelli – who resigned from the leadership of the ECA and renounced his position in the UEFA Executive – and Joel Glazer as deputy. The new annual tournament “will provide significantly higher economic growth and support for European football through a long-term commitment to pay no-cap solidarity contributions, which will grow in line with the league’s revenues. These solidarity contributions will substantially higher than those generated by the current European competition and are expected to exceed 10 billion euros during the course of the initial commitment period of the clubs “. To the Founding Clubs “a one-off contribution of € 3.5 billion to support their investment plans in infrastructure and to offset the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic”. (ITALPRESS). glb / gm / red 19-Apr-21 00:53
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