UEFA denies negotiations with European Super League promoter

UEFA connected Thursday denied ongoing talks with Super League promoter A22 Sports Management but it admitted it had met the body, aft the promoter told AFP it was “negotiating” with UEFA to make a caller Champions League format.

“What A22 and the Super League clubs person done is to suggest an statement to UEFA that fundamentally consists of providing a escaped broadcasting level and making precise flimsy changes to the existent contention format,” said an A22 spokesperson.

In this version, a acold outcry from the archetypal semi-closed contention task that astir tore isolated European shot successful 2021, the 36 teams presently qualified for the Champions League would beryllium divided into 2 groups of 18 clubs, with the highest-ranked teams past competing successful the circular of 32.

UEFA acknowledged respective “public meetings” betwixt its wide caput Theodore Theodoridis and A22 co-founder Anas Laghrari but said they “produced nary authoritative results”.

“There are nary plans to alteration the UEFA Champions League format,” UEFA said, having introduced a caller format which came into effect from the 2024-25 season.

The developments travel aft Barcelona president Joan Laporta, who has agelong been astatine the forefront of the Super League project, expressed his tendency for “an statement with UEFA” to “pacify” European football.

Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi, the seat of the rebranded European Football Clubs (EFC, formerly European Club Association) welcomed Laporta’s displacement astatine the EFC gathering successful Rome.

For Al-Khelaifi, Barca’s rapprochement with the EFC and UEFA does not mean the extremity of the Super League project, due to the fact that “it was already dormant before”.

“We don’t request different competitions, we already person the champion competitions,” the Qatari added.

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