Who are the Break Away European Super League Teams: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Chelsea, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City, Liverpool and AC Milan.
Fresh plans to create a European Super League were dealt a blow after Fifa president Gianni Infantino warned that any participants would be barred from playing in the World Cup.
“Either you are in or you are out. This includes everything,” Infantino said. “If there are players who don’t play in organised football, they don’t play organised football, and that encompasses everything – national leagues, confederation competitions, the Euros and the World Cup.”
Talk of a super league was revived on Friday when Der Spiegel published a series of confidential documents in its Football Leaks investigation. The 11 founding clubs in a privately-run tournament that would begin in 2021 were reported to be Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Chelsea, Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain, Manchester City, Liverpool and AC Milan.
But Fifa is determined to stop the process with a threat of sanctions. “The idea is if you break away, you break away – you don’t keep one foot in and one foot out,” Fifa’s legal director, Alasdair Bell, said. “That would be the general approach we would follow, but of course lawyers can debate this for a long time.”
