In an interview with the BBC on Tuesday, November 20, Aleksander Ceferin said there will be no European Super League reserved for the big clubs of the Old Continent. However, he still thinks of a change in the Champions League.
There will be no closed European Super League reserved for the biggest clubs on the continent, said UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin and President of the influential European Club Association (ECA) Andrea Agnelli. the BBC reports Tuesday.
On the other hand, their joint plan for the future of European football, starting in 2024, will be based on an overhaul of the calendar with, perhaps, less national football and more European competitions.
"It's a fiction"
"There will be no Super League. It's a kind of fiction, or a dream, " Ceferin told the BBC.
As for Agnelli, whose association includes more than 200 European clubs, he added that the clubs and UEFA were "united" in their way of seeing the evolution of football in the coming years, and "totally engaged with the UEFA to advance football " .
"I can confirm that we have never seen, discussed or been involved in this document (on the Super League project (unveiled in particular by the German magazine Der Spiegel, ed)," said Agnelli, who is also president of Juventus, one of the clubs expected to be part of it.
Ceferin is expected to be re-elected in February, unopposed. He is currently reflecting with Agnelli on a possible change to the format of the Champions League, in order to obtain better television broadcasting contracts.
"We have ideas, " Ceferin said. All I can say is that there is no question of a Super League at all [...] And everyone will have a chance to compete in one of the European competitions, " he added. 51-year-old Slovenian lawyer.