European Super League(s)

[Darkon]

The top clubs, and the richest clubs, in Europe are currently working on plans to create a super league, or super league(s), in Europe to replace the CL/EL. It will instead be replaced by 3 divisions, the meeting with the proposal to UEFA took place in spring, accoring to a Danish football magazine. If to become reality it would replace the current formats from 2018, and not sure how it would fit in to domestic league action?

There would be promotion/relegation from the divisions btw.

The divisions if they were created today:

1. division:
FC Barcelona
Real Madrid
Chelsea
Manchester United
Manchester City
AC Milan
Juventus
Paris Saint-Germain
Bayern München
Borussia Dortmund
FC Porto
Shakhtar Donetsk
Zenit St. Petersborg
Ajax
Galatasaray
Olympiakos

2. division:
Inter
Napoli
Olympique Marseille
Lille
Atletico Madrid
Celtic
Schalke 04
CSKA Moskva
Tottenham Hotspur
Arsenal
Dynamo Kiev
Sporting Lissabon
Benfica
PSV Eindhoven
Anderlecht
VfB Stuttgart

3. division:
AS Roma
Olympique Lyon
Twente
Valencia
Bayer Leverkusen
Fenerbahce
Spartak Moskva
Legia Warszawa
FC København
FC Basel
Red Bull Salzburg
Steaua Bukarest
APOEL Nicosia
Viktoria Plzen
Røde Stjerne Beograd
Maccabi Haifa

What do you guys think of that proposal?

[Lee]

Sounds ****.

[Chazza]

The beginning of the end.

[PTP]

jesus look at that division 3

i'd assume then - that there would have to be a domestic league and then some sort of play off to get into division 3?

At least we might get to win the english again tho

[Alex]

It sounds like it would make the Prem less competitive as the teams would be focused on winning the Euro games. It also sounds **** for fans who cant travel to away games.

[Gibbo]

Sounds ****.

Edit: Also why are Zenit, Gala, Olympiakos and Ajax rated better than Arsenal, Inter and teams like that?

[Alex]

That is assuming that the leagues work on a Promotion/Relegation format.

[ChesterDave]

Celtic in the second tier shows the idea to be flawed.

[Darkon]

It sounds like it would make the Prem less competitive as the teams would be focused on winning the Euro games. It also sounds **** for fans who cant travel to away games.

I assume it would turn more to like American sports where away fans is not really a thing, you watch the home games - that's it.

Edit: Also why are Zenit, Gala, Olympiakos and Ajax rated better than Arsenal, Inter and teams like that?

I think that have to do with having a spread across the continent rather than just putting teams from the 4 biggest leagues together. Sorta like the CL today tries to do a bit.

[Fosterbloke]

Five biggest clubs hold talks about new European Super League

Edit.

[Muddled]

It has been bandied around for some time now. I think it's inevitable along with the famous match 39.

The divide between professional football and the elite is going to become huge.

[Phoenix07]

The source is The Sun.

[Bender]

Rag Newspaper

[Alex]

Ignoring the source. This gets banded about every 2-3 years when the Champions League TV deals come up for renewal.

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Probably within the next 10 years, in fact I'm pretty confident we'll see it before then.