The European Football Union (UEFA) has achieved its first legal success in the fight against the Super League.
The 17th Commercial Court in Madrid on Wednesday lifted an injunction prohibiting the European Football Union (UEFA) and the International Football Association (FIFA) and their affiliated associations and leagues from playing against the twelve founding members of the Spring 2021 to initiate or continue spectacularly failed Super League sanction proceedings.
Michael Horini
Football correspondent Europe in Berlin.
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The three remaining Super League clubs (Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Juventus Turin) had taken action against the threat of sanctions from the European association before the Madrid Commercial Court.
UEFA complied with the first decision, but in September 2021, at the same time, submitted a request for the judge who had presided until then to reject it.
UEFA took the view "that there had been significant irregularities in this process".
The association therefore expected “that the judge concerned will immediately step down until this application has been fully and properly examined”.
Contrary to the opinion of the judge appointed at first instance, the new judge at the Commercial Court has now seen "not the slightest evidence" that "the threat and imposition of sanctions against the three remaining clubs has resulted in the impossibility of carrying out the independently financed project". , as stated in the eighteen-page decree quoted by various Spanish media.
An appeal is possible against the decision.
Regardless of the legal dispute in Spain, the dispute between UEFA and the initiators of the Super League will be heard before the European Court of Justice.
Experts expect a fundamental judgment in the coming year.