The company A22 Sports Management, promoter of the European Super League, announced today that it is going to take legal action against the League and Javier Tebas for what they understand is a "campaign of harassment and denigration that they have developed in recent times against the new project European competition," said the lawyers of the European Super League in Commercial Court number 17 in Madrid, where the judicial process of the Super League was resumed three months after the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), a court that denounced the monopolistic position that UEFA enjoys in the European football market.
The Super League demanded the estimation of its claim against UEFA and FIFA. For their lawyers, "we have suffered unquantifiable damages during these three years for not having been able to carry out economic activity as entry to a market in which the CJEU has declared that competition must exist has been closed to us."
"My client is the victim. UEFA has been trying to kill the Super League for three years and thereby kill this procedure. This is the death of the competitor as a defense of the monopolist," said A22's lawyer, Fernando Giménez.
The lawyer assured that "the project survives and continues trying to enter the market" and reproached the president of UEFA, Alexander Ceferin, "for having dedicated himself to issuing warnings and saying that anyone who has business with the three clubs and A22 should not do so." will have with UEFA", in reference to Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus.
Giménez insisted that this action by UEFA has been a failure, because "all the contracts that link clubs with ESLCO are still in force", at the same time that he denounced being the subject of a media campaign with the participation of LaLiga, against which is going to take legal action, as well as against its president, who, according to what he said, "called his CEO a drunk."
Fernando Izurzun, lawyer for European Superleague Company, S. L., expressed the same opinion, for whom UEFA and FIFA have imposed prior authorization for another competition, without regulations that protect them and being the only ones to decide who can enter the market. , generating a conflict of interest by being the owner of a competition and reserving the authorization of others.
"In 2021 there was nothing, it was authorized by the free will of UEFA. It seems clear that with the absence of regulations the existence of an abuse of dominance of the position of UEFA and FIFA is indisputable, the ruling does not save it anywhere" , he claimed.
In his presentation, the representative of the Super League maintained that sport cannot be exempt from the general rules and principles of the EU and that the CJEU has maintained this, "recognizing this constitutional value of free competition."
