The 55 member states affiliated with UEFA have spoken out in a joint statement on Tuesday against the plans for the newly formed Super League. The response from the European Football Association comes on the day UEFA voted in Montreux on the new format of the Champions League and the election of members to the executive committee. In addition, it was mainly about the plans for the Super League, which are strictly rejected by UEFA.
Part of the statement include the federations of Spain, England and Italy, where the participating clubs come from. “UEFA, its member states and everyone who loves football are keeping their foot stiff and will resist and fight as hard as possible against the move of these club owners and their henchmen,” the association said in a unanimous statement on the website. “We know what is morally at stake and will protect football from a selfish clan that doesn’t care about football. We are European football. They don’t.”
UEFA will therefore do everything in its power to prevent the arrival of a possible Super League in the future. “The UEFA congress is determined that the closed Super League goes against the European concept: unity, openness, support and fundamental sporting values,” the association continued. “UEFA and its member states believe in a European model based on open competition, solidarity and fair distribution, to ensure the sustainability and development of football in everyone’s interest and the promotion of European values and a social outcome.”
Since it has become known that work is being done in the background on a competition for only European top clubs, various clubs have expressed their dissatisfaction. “The conspiring clubs have clearly failed to see that they have reached their current status not in isolation, but as part of a dynamic European system, where clubs large, medium and small have all contributed to success and loss. It is an insult to the European values and sporting achievements that they now believe they can separate themselves and lay a claim on the legacy built up by everyone, “concludes UEFA.