BRUXELLES, BELGIUM – On Thursday, Europe’s top court ruled that moves by football governing bodies UEFA and FIFA to stifle the formation of a rival Super League violated EU law.
“The FIFA and UEFA rules making any new interclub football project subject to their prior approval, such as the Super League, and prohibiting clubs and players from playing in those competitions, are unlawful,” according to the ruling by the European Court of Justice.
The written judgment’s summary emphasized that the ruling does not necessarily mean that the Super League project should now be approved, but rather that FIFA and UEFA have been “abusing a dominant position” in the football market.
The company promoting the Super League project, A22 Sports, declared victory.
“We have won the right to compete. The UEFA monopoly is over. Football is free,” the firm’s CEO Bernd Reichart declared in a social media post from the A22 account.
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