Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid have promised that they will continue with their plans for a European Super League after winning an important court case against UEFA \u2013 European football\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n
The 12 clubs that are to form the proposed breakaway league have had their disciplinary proceedings against them by the governing body, thrown out by a court in Madrid. The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg will now determine the outcome of the case. In an announcement on April 18, 12 clubs announced they were founding members of the Super League. However, the competition was over in 72 hours following nine clubs\u2019 withdrawals amid protest from fans, opposition from UEFA, FIFA, domestic leagues as well as the British Government and Royal Family. UEFA fined Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan and AC Milan approximately \u00a37m each in addition to fining five percent of their prize money.<\/p>\n
According to a Spanish court, however, the penalties must be removed while ongoing disciplinary proceedings are terminated against Barca, Juve, and Madrid \u2013 all of whom have adhered to the project. These three clubs have pledged to break UEFA\u2019s grip on club football in Europe, citing the \u201cmonopolistic position\u201d of UEFA as a major reason.<\/p>\n
A joint statement on their websites read: \u201cFC Barcelona, Juventus, and Real Madrid CF welcome today\u2019s Court\u2019s decision enforcing, with immediate effect, UEFA\u2019s obligation to unwind the actions taken against all European Super League founding clubs, including terminating the disciplinary proceedings against the undersigning three clubs and removing the penalties and restrictions imposed on the remaining nine founding clubs for them to avoid UEFA\u2019s disciplinary action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Juventus, Real Madrid, and Barcelona are still endorsing the project and continue to actively work on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[670,270,410,681,661,312,1938,750,1936,238,984,422,2477,180,219,2109,220,249,2347,266,2478,1547,1937,1749,178],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ac-milan","tag-arsenal","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-chelsea","tag-esl","tag-europe","tag-european-super-league","tag-fc-barcelona","tag-fifa","tag-inter-milan","tag-juve","tag-juventus","tag-liverpool","tag-madrid","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-manchester-united","tag-milan","tag-real-madrid","tag-real-madrid-cf","tag-royal-family","tag-super-league","tag-tottenham","tag-uefa"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}