A new-look European Super League (ESL) proposal has today been unveiled. The competition – which attempted to launch in 2021 with just 12 founding clubs – would now include 60 to 80 teams, have no permanent members, and would guarantee at least 14 matches per season for those involved.
Bernd Reichart, chief executive of A22, the Madrid-based sister company of the ESL, has told the German newspaper Die Welt that the "foundations of European football are in danger of collapsing" and revealed more than 50 clubs have been consulted since October about the creation of a new competition.
Qualification to a new European Super League would be achieved via performance in each club's domestic competition. Reichart also outlined plans for cost control measures that would not allow clubs competing in an ESL to spend more than a fixed percentage of their annual football-related revenue on player salaries and net transfers.
