The European Court of Justice has delivered a significant blow to the prospect of a European Super League being created, with a judge ruling that the current rules applied by FIFA and UEFA are compatible with EU competition law.
The European Superleague Company - effectively Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus - had brought a complaint to Madrid’s commercial court in which they argued that the governing bodies had created a cartel that shut down attempts for alternative competitions to be established.
But the Madrid court referred the case to the ECJ, the highest possible seat that deals with matters of European competition law, and a hearing was held in Luxembourg in July.
