Real Madrid Takes Legal Action Against UEFA Over European Super League Project
October 30, 2025288 ViewsRead Time: 2 minutes
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Real Madrid and A22 Sports Management, the official developer of the European Super League project, have entered into a direct legal confrontation with the European Football Association (UEFA), in a move that threatens to reopen the largest football separation file in the history of European football.
According to Spanish media reports, the legal team for both Real Madrid and A22 is preparing to file a compensation claim amounting to approximately 4.5 billion euros, claiming that UEFA has caused significant financial and moral damages to the project by deliberately obstructing the launch of the tournament, which was supposed to serve as a radical alternative to the current continental competitions.
Sources indicated that the legal action comes after a series of meetings between representatives of the concerned parties failed, as Real Madrid and the organizing body of the new tournament accused UEFA of not seeking a genuine settlement, but rather using dialogue as a means to "buy time and prevent the birth of the project".
The negotiations between the two parties included issues related to broadcasting rights and competition management mechanisms, but ended without an agreement due to the absence of a unified vision for the final format of the tournament.
Real Madrid and A22 base their complaint on previous rulings from the European Court of Justice, which confirmed that UEFA does not have the right to monopolize the organization of sports tournaments, and that preventing free competition violates European laws. The two parties believe that the continental federation "exploited its position to impose unlawful restrictions" on the clubs that expressed their support for the Super League project.
Observers expect this case to extend for years in European courts, but if it is resolved in favor of Real Madrid and A22, it could represent a historic shift in the structure of continental football, and perhaps the beginning of the end of UEFA's monopoly on European tournaments.
