Super League and UEFA close to agreement on a new Champions League?

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·4 October 2025

Super League and UEFA close to agreement on a new Champions League?

For several years now, there has been a concrete attempt to launch a European Super League. The founders - Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Juventus Turin - experienced a failure, but discussions are reportedly still ongoing with the support of the company A22 Sport Management. This Saturday, Mundo Deportivo mentions a possible agreement with UEFA to create a Champions League in a new format.

A more accessible competition?

The Super League has now presented a final peace proposal to UEFA, featuring two key points: a free global platform for broadcasting matches on television and a format that replicates the current Champions League, with modifications to make it more spectacular.

A format closer to the current one, but quite different.

"The proposal involves dividing the 36 clubs of the current Champions League into two groups that will meet in a knockout phase. The qualification system for the competition would be the same as today, through national leagues, but the 36 qualifiers would then be divided into two groups. And this is where the big change lies: the top 18 teams in the UEFA ranking would play the eight matches of the first phase. And the clubs ranked from 19th to 36th place would play eight other matches (more balanced), drawn at random, as is currently the case. At the end of this first phase, the top eight teams from groups 1 to 18 would advance to the round of 16, as is currently the case. 16 other teams from groups 1 to 2 would play in the round of 32, as is the case today.

Beware, we're talking about a free platform, but it would come with advertisements and therefore a subscription would be needed to avoid being disturbed during the match. A system already well developed on several platforms. The price would need to be compared with current broadcasters to get an idea. However, it's worth noting that everyone could have access to the match.

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As for the formula, it promises more "big matches" while giving a chance to smaller qualifying clubs. This is not uninteresting, except that these clubs also want to qualify for the Champions League in order to face the biggest teams. The latter often dominate, but there are also surprises each season. Anyway, we all know that the primary motivation for the Super League is to generate better revenues for the elite in Europe.

We remain cautious, this is not an official announcement. The agreement is far from certain, as is this famous new formula. Especially since the current one seems quite appealing. Not to mention that in recent days other media have reported that FC Barcelona might withdraw from this Super League project in order to get closer to UEFA.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.