The EU’s top court will rule on the breakaway Super League case against European football governing body UEFA on December 21, according to an official with direct knowledge of the matter.
After launching and immediately collapsing during a two-day furor in April 2021, Super League backers complained that UEFA ran an illegal monopoly in European football.
Their case — supported by Super League holdouts Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, plus promoter company A22 — was referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union by a Madrid court, and was heard in Luxembourg in July 2022.
UEFA disputes the monopoly accusation, and the court’s advocate general came down firmly on the governing body’s side in an opinion published last December. In that opinion, the legal aide to the EU’s highest court said the bloc’s competition rules shouldn’t prevent UEFA from punishing rebel clubs.
UEFA and world governing body FIFA have the right to use tough measures to protect their existing tournaments without falling foul of EU competition law, wrote Advocate General Athanasios Rantos last December.
The judgment will be delivered by the court at 9:30 a.m. on December 21.
The case is C-333/21 European Superleague Company.
