The Super League already has the sentence it needed. The High Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has declared that UEFA and FIFA have committed “an abuse of dominant power” by trying to sanction the teams that wanted to create the competition. This is the chronology of five years of war in European football.

November 2018

In November 2018, Football Leaks reveals that there are secret talks about the creation of a new football competition called the 'European Super League', which could begin in 2021.

October 2020

Josep Maria Bartomeu, president of Barcelona, admits in his resignation from office that the board of directors of the Catalan club has accepted “the invitation to a European Super League” promoted by “the great clubs of Europe.”

January 21, 2021

FIFA makes a statement together with the representatives of its different Confederations rejecting the formation of the Super League and ensuring that the clubs or players involved will be sanctioned.

April 18, 2021

Twelve clubs announce the creation of the Super League. There are three Spaniards (Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid), three Italians (Juventus, AC Milan and Inter) and six English (Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea). Among the great teams on the continent, only Bayern Munich and PSG refuse to enter it.

The format foresees up to 20 participating teams: the founders, three more guests – including PSG – and five other teams that will be classified annually based on their performance.. UEFA, the federations, the English, Spanish and Italian leagues and the European Club Association (ECA) show their rejection of the project.

April 19, 2021

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin announces sanctions on the clubs involved in the creation of the Super League and the prohibition of their players from participating in UEFA competitions. All after the Executive Committee in which the expansion of the Champions League to 36 teams was approved.

For its part, the Spanish government rejects the Super League and asks the three Spanish clubs to dialogue to achieve an agreed competition.

Florentino Pérez presents the project in El Chiringuito and justifies it as a “solution to alleviate the lost income, 5,000 million due to the pandemic”, he denies that it will be closed and that it will cause the disappearance of the national leagues.

April 20, 2021

The Commercial Court 17 of Madrid receives a complaint from the Superliga -A22 Sports Management SL. and European Super League Company SL – and grants the very precautionary measures requested to prevent any measure that prevents its implementation and sanctions to the clubs.

The six English clubs abandon the project.

Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA, rejects the project and assures that UEFA and FIFA are democratic and open organizations.

The president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, points out that the European model based on solidarity is greatly threatened by those who put “the focus on economic benefit.”

April 21, 2021

Atlético de Madrid and the three Italian clubs give up the project.

April 23, 2021

The American bank JP Morgan, which was going to finance the Super League, acknowledges that it “misjudged” the impact that the birth of the new competition would have throughout the world, for which it was going to make a loan of 3,983 million euros.

May 7, 2021

UEFA approves reintegration measures for the clubs that gave up, after recognizing that the project was a mistake.

May 12, 2021

The head of the Commercial Court 17 of Madrid, Manuel Ruiz de Lara, submits a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to determine whether there is abuse of dominant position by UEFA and FIFA according to community regulations, specifically articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), by preventing the organization of other competitions outside its scope.

May 25, 2021

UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus. The three clubs reject this measure the next day and consider that UEFA has committed “a flagrant breach” of the precautionary measures ordered by the court.

July 1, 2021

The Commercial Court number 17 of Madrid orders UEFA to archive the disciplinary procedures and to annul the “disguised sanctions” to the other nine clubs that renounced the project.

July 16, 2021

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) refuses to analyze the case through an accelerated procedure.

April 12, 2022

The Commercial Court number 17 of Madrid sets the date of June 14 for the pre-trial hearing of the trial and declares FIFA in a situation of procedural default, for not having appeared as a co-defendant within the deadline to answer the lawsuit.

April 21, 2022

The Provincial Court of Madrid upholds UEFA's appeal and lifts the precautionary measures that prevented its imposition of sanctions on the clubs.

June 3, 2022

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) announces that the hearing of the case will be held on July 11 and 12.

July 2022

One of the three resisters, Juventus, also ends up withdrawing from the project just six months after losing its president Andrea Agnelli, removed from office due to management irregularities.

December 15, 2022

The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) released his conclusions. According to the jurist, FIFA and UEFA did not abuse their dominant position in European football competitions by blocking the creation of the Super League with the threat of sanctions.. “The FIFA and UEFA rules that make the creation of any new competition subject to prior authorization are compatible with Union competition law,” he says.

January 30, 2023

The Provincial Court of Madrid issues an order revoking the judge's order and restoring the precautionary measures adopted in April 2021 by the previous judge.

February 9, 2023

A22 publishes the decalogue of the Super League. “The conclusions point to an open European football league, where there are no permanent members, based solely on sporting merit, with several divisions, between 60 and 80 participating clubs and a minimum of 14 guaranteed European matches per club.”

December 21, 2023

Victory for the Super League in the CJEU, which declares that there is “abuse of dominant power” by UEFA and FIFA.