The Super League, a proposed new soccer competition featuring Europe’s elite club teams that would rival the long-standing Champions League, received new life on Thursday when the European Union’s top court ruled that UEFA and FIFA — the governing bodies of European and global soccer — broke European competition laws when it prohibited teams from joining the new league.
In April 2021, 12 of Europe’s wealthiest club soccer teams announced the formation of the Super League, a new 20-team competition to determine the continent’s annual professional champion. Those 12 teams — AC Milan, Arsenal, Atlético Madrid, Barcelona, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur — plus three others would have been permanent Super League members, with the other five changing annually based on achievements from the previous season.