The European Club Association released a statement, reportedly after a meeting that did not involve President Andrea Agnelli, assuring they are not in favour of the European Super League.
This is creating a huge split within the ECA, because Agnelli is President of the institution as well as of Juventus, but he is one of those signing up to this breakaway league.
The European Club Association released a statement, reportedly after a meeting that did not involve President Andrea Agnelli, assuring they are not in favour of the European Super League.
This is creating a huge split within the ECA, because Agnelli is President of the institution as well as of Juventus, but he is one of those signing up to this breakaway league.
It’s reported the emergency ECA meeting held this evening did not include Agnelli and was chaired by Ajax director Edwin van der Saar.
It also did not include any of the 12 ECA member clubs who have seemingly signed on to this Super League.
“In light of today’s reports on the subject of a so-called breakaway league, ECA as the body representing 246 leading clubs across Europe, reiterates its stated commitment to working on developing the UEFA Club Competitions (UCCs) model with UEFA for the cycle beginning 2024 and that a ‘closed super league model’ to which media articles refer would be strongly opposed by ECA.
“ECA would refer to the position adopted by its Executive Board at its meeting last Friday 16th April, namely that it supports a commitment to work with UEFA on a renewed structure for European Club Football as a whole post 2024, including proposed changes to the UEFA Club Competitions post 2024. With ECA’s support, UEFA’s Executive Committee is being asked to endorse these commitments at its meeting on 19th April along with pursuing efforts to reach an agreement on the future relationship between ECA and UEFA.
“The ECA Executive Board will be convening over the coming days to take appropriate decisions in light of any further developments.”