10 Things You Need To Know About The Super League!

10 Things You Need To Know About The Super League! European football has been shaken to its core with the announcement of the new competition over the past 48 hours.

The proposed Super League will see the world’s best teams, players and coaches take each other on regularly in a league of their own. Here are 10 Things You Need To Know About The Super League!

• The competition has 15 “Founding Clubs”, with 12 of these clubs revealed (AC Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, FC Barcelona, Chelsea, Juventus, Liverpool, Inter Milan, Manchester City, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspurs). A further 3 clubs will be revealed.

• 20 participating clubs with 15 Founding Clubs and a qualifying mechanism for a further five teams to qualify annually based on achievements in the prior season.
• Midweek fixtures with all participating clubs continuing to compete in their respective national leagues, preserving the traditional domestic match calendar which remains at the heart of the club game.
• An August start with clubs participating in two groups of ten, playing home and away fixtures, with the top three in each group automatically qualifying for the quarter-finals.
• Teams finishing fourth and fifth will then compete in a two-legged play-off for the remaining quarter-final positions. A two-leg knockout format will be used to reach the final at the end of May, which will be staged as a single fixture at a neutral venue.
• Real Madrid club President Fiorentino Perez is the first President of the Super League. Juventus club President Andrea Agnelli is the vice-president.

• American investment bank JP Morgan has announced it will be financing the competition.
• Each Founding Club will receive €3.5 billion for their participation in the competition.
• Teams will receive an additional £200m-£250m in TV rights as soon as the competition commences.
• The 15 Founding Clubs will participate every year, meaning that there are only 5 qualifications spots each year.