{"id":544872,"date":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:46:11","slug":"brussels-still-dim-on-football-super-league-despite-uefa-court-loss-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/544872\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels still dim on football Super League despite UEFA court loss \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maltese commissioner said the EU executive would continue to work with UEFA and LaLiga \u2014\u00a0the European and Spanish federations found by the Madrid court to have breached EU competition law \u2014 in order to ensure that money is redistributed from the top clubs to amateur leagues.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Spanish competition authority opened an antitrust investigation into UEFA\u2019s conduct, a case which observers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/200102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including a former advocate general<\/a> \u2014 think should be taken up by the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Super League] contradicts the principles of the European Sports Model and collapsed in 2021 because it was a bad idea from the start,\u201d said Micallef, noting that it was rejected by fans, players and governments across Europe at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner\u2019s comment follows the European Parliament\u2019s adoption of a resolution in October that stated the legislative body\u2019s opposition to \u201cbreakaway competitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Real Madrid and A22 Sports Management have said that they will <a href=\"https:\/\/on.ft.com\/4okGxZP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seek damages from UEFA<\/a> following the court ruling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2223678149-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7432293\"  \/>Both Real Madrid and A22 Sports Management have said that they will seek damages from UEFA following the court ruling. | Sven Hoppe\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Super League\u2019s collapse in 2021, its backers have continued to try to organize a breakaway competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Maltese commissioner said the EU executive would continue to work with UEFA and LaLiga \u2014\u00a0the European and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7155,1442,24599,30,2766,393,2000,7158,299,5187,23664,2199,48,104,93,2600],"class_list":{"0":"post-544872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-antitrust","9":"tag-competition","10":"tag-competition-antitrust","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-eu-competition","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-glenn-micallef","19":"tag-italy","20":"tag-rights","21":"tag-spain","22":"tag-sport","23":"tag-switzerland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115482066793584299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}