Super League: Madrid High Court suspends UEFA sanctions against promoters of the project

UEFA, FIFA and the football federations may not adopt any measure that "prohibits, restricts, limits or conditions in any way, directly or indirectly, the implementation of the Super League" according to the Audiencia Provincial de Madrid, the court of first instance in the Spanish capital, in a ruling handed down on 30/01/2023 and reported by the Spanish daily As.

The court added that football authorities "cannot justify their anti-competitive behaviour as if they were the sole guardians of certain European values, especially if this is to be used as an excuse to support a monopoly from which they can exclude anyone who aspires to become their competitor, or hinder their initiative, due to the potential upheaval that this would cause to their structure and business model" and clearly refers to an abuse of a dominant position.

This decision, which is favourable to the promoters of the Super League project, brought together within the European Super League Company (ESLC, a company under Spanish law bringing together several clubs, including FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF, with the…