European Leagues: "Firm opposition" against new competitions / formats presented by FIFA

"The European Leagues stressed their firm opposition to the recent proposal of FIFA to introduce two brand new competitions, namely a revamped FIFA Club World Cup and a new FIFA Nations League," stated European Leagues (new name of the EPFL since 06/04/2018), following the meeting of its board of directors, in Saint Petersburg (RUS), on 03/05/2018.

FIFA is studying the project of a group of investors willing to inject $25bn (€20.4bn) over the 2021-2033 period for the organisation of a newly formatted Club World Cup (in which 24 clubs would participate, including 12 European ones, every four years) and a Nations League on a global scale. These two competitions would replace the current Club World Cup (organised each year in December by FIFA) and the FIFA Confederations Cup (which FIFA organises every four years, the year before the World Cup, in the host country of the later event, as with Russia in 2017).

"This process reminds me of the way the 'old FIFA' acted which I thought we had left behind. What we have experienced is a clear lack of consultation and transparency, and an…