As presented in recent months, FC Barcelona announced this Saturday that it was withdrawing from the European Super League, leaving Real Madrid as the last defender of the project.
Barça officially lets go of Real Madrid. In a communiqué published this Saturday, FC Barcelona announced that it was definitively withdrawing from the European Super League project.
“FC Barcelona announces that it has officially notified the European Super League company and participating clubs today of its withdrawal from the European Super League project,” it reads.
“We want peace in football”
The announcement marks a new big competition project intended to revolutionize European football and publicly supported by Real Madrid and its president Florentino Pérez. As a reminder, in 2021, several major European clubs joined forces to offer a quasi-closed competition to compete with UEFA tournaments. Quickly, the vast majority of European giants withdrew from the project in the face of popular indignation.
But Real Madrid and FC Barcelona persisted for a long time. Except that the resurgence of tensions between the two rival Spanish clubs and the rapprochement of the Catalans with the European body foreshadowed this departure from Barça.
“We want peace and sustainability in football. I discovered the Super League and I decided to set it up because I thought there were many differences with the state-owned clubs. The project dragged on and all this uncertainty is not beneficial to us,” President Joan Laporta said in December.
Recently, the leader was seen at the meeting of the European Club Association, now called EFC. To date, FC Barcelona is not one of the 800 members of the EFC but the official withdrawal from the Super League should speed things up. “We feel very close to UEFA and the EFC (…) Aleksander Ceferin and Nasser Al-Khelaifi are both able to promote the agreement and welcome us to UEFA and the EFC,” he declared in October.
