UEFA’s Champions League changes opening door to Super League

UEFA will be opening the door to the possibility of a Super League in the years to come if it does not scrap plans to award Champions League places based on past European performance, a fans’ chief has warned.

Two spots could be set aside in the new-look competition from 2024 for teams with the best co-efficient ranking, which is based on their results in Europe over the previous five seasons.

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The two teams with the highest co-efficient score who finish immediately outside the regular Champions League qualification places would be eligible, under refined proposals presented by UEFA to members of the European Club Association last month.

A final decision will be taken by UEFA’s executive committee on May 10. But a year on from 12 clubs announcing they had formed their own Super League, fans have expressed concerns that big clubs’ interests still hold too much sway at UEFA.

Ronan Evain, the executive director of Football Supporters Europe, says the governing body must decide whether to appease Europe’s big clubs or play its role as a regulator.

“There’s obviously a contradiction between the collective action of last year (to block the Super League) and to protect the European model of sports, sporting integrity and sporting merit, and the principle of these coefficients,” he told the PA news agency on the one-year anniversary of the Super League launch.

“UEFA has to make a decision between appeasing big clubs and addressing their interests and concerns on one side, and stay true to what has been their position last year. They can’t get it both ways, it’s a choice between the two.”

UEFA’s executive committee did approve a new format, featuring 10 matches instead of the