Definitive blow to the Super League. Barcelona, great support from Real Madrid and Florentino Pérez when it comes to launching the project … new European competition, this Saturday put an end to one of the most controversial chapters in its recent history, confirming the position that its latest movements already revealed, and that has progressively distanced it from the Chamartín entity to move the Catalan institution to the opposite side, the one led by Aleksander Ceferin’s UEFA and the European Club Association (ECA) chaired by Nasser Al-Khelaifi, in turn president of Paris Saint-Germain.
Without going into specific details regarding the reasons for its decision, the Barça club officially announced its abandonment of the European Super League, an initiative born in 2021 that sought to revolutionize continental football and that since its announcement caused a wave of institutional, sporting and social rejection, enough for the proposal to deflate at the first opportunity with the abandonment of most of the initially promoting clubs, including all of those in the powerful English Premier League.
Furthermore, the entity chaired by Joan Laporta reported that it has already formally notified its decision to both the European Super League Company and the rest of the institutions involved in the project. The announcement was made through a brief official statement, just a few lines long, published on the club’s website, in which no further details of the separation were offered, but it was stressed that the communication has been officially communicated to all parties.
With this step, Barcelona definitively aligns itself with the current competitive framework of European football, supported by the competitions organized by UEFA, and closes a debate that has accompanied the club in recent years, both on an institutional level and in terms of its social mass, who viewed with suspicion the close relationship with Real Madrid, in a bond that has been seriously deteriorating in recent months, with multiple accusations crossed.
“FC Barcelona informs that today it has formally notified the European Super League Company and the clubs that have been part of it of its disassociation from the European Super League project,” said Barça in its brief official statement, which definitively leaves Florentino Pérez’s Real Madrid alone in its quest to alter the established order in European football with a completely renewed format and management of the Old Continent’s top competition entirely in the hands of the clubs and not of UEFA, as has been happening until now.
