A LaLiga report claimed that a European Super League would “destroy national leagues in the medium term,” finding that most clubs would face a 55% drop in revenue if such a competition were to resume .
A study conducted for La Liga by accounting firm KPMG argues that the league’s “Big Two” clubs, real madrid And barcelonaEach would be set to receive an additional €400 million in annual income from their Super League participation.
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Other Spanish clubs will face a 55% reduction in their revenue from audiovisual rights, sponsorship and ticketing.
Earlier on Friday, Bernd Reichert, CEO of A22 Sports Management, the company behind the Super League, insisted the latest plans for the competition would be based on a “meritocracy”, with “no fixed places” for Europe’s top clubs. .
“Super League is not a competition format – it is an ideological concept,” said La Liga president Javier Tebas.
“Now they have introduced a new communication strategy to add to the confusion… The format that has been talked about will be very harmful to the national leagues. It will destroy the national leagues in the medium term.”
Tebas said: “It’s a governance problem. Big clubs want power in European football. We all know clubs should have more power, but every club. Super League says clubs should be masters of their own destiny. And I agree, but it’s all big and small clubs, as it happens in La Liga.”
La Liga’s report – which was presented to the media in Madrid on Friday – claimed the Super League would “destroy the competitive balance” in football, with a planned “semi-closed” European model for promotion and relegation which would remove the need to qualify through National League performance and therefore reduce interest in domestic competition.
“The worst thing for me is that they treat us like we’re stupid or naive,” Tebas said.
“Undoubted, [the Super League] is for the rich. They keep repeating the word meritocracy to convince us of something that is not true. The format they’re talking about isn’t just meritocracy-lite, it’s not meritocracy in quotation marks, it’s meritocracy in brackets.”
The European Court of Justice is considering a complaint by Super League that UEFA’s role as European football’s governing body has been violated under EU competition law, with the Court’s Advocate General’s opinion on 15 December. constituted an illegal monopoly.
