The founders of the breakaway competition hope to relaunch their project in the near future.
Barcelona president Joan Laporta reveals the Super League founders are planning to launch the competition without the Premier League clubs.
After a surprise unveiling in April 2021, Super League collapsed under the pressure of immense backlash from football fans and officials.
Nine founding clubs withdrew their support for the project, including all of the participants from the Premier League. However, that hasn’t stopped Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Juventus from pursuing their plans to launch the breakaway tournament.
The project suffered a major legal blow when the European Union Court of Justice [CJUE] ruled that UEFA and FIFA could sanction participant clubs earlier this month.
But Laporta believes the competition could launch as soon as 2025.
“In March or April we will have the CJUE ruling. It will be a very important sentence and I think it will benefit the clubs,” Laporta told Cadena SER on Thursday.
“The Super League will be an open competition. I would not have entered this project if the competition was not open.
“We want the governance to belong to the clubs. I hope that UEFA will occupy one more chair at the governance table. If the resolution is favourable, I think the Super League will be a reality in 2025.”
Asked whether the Premier League sides would rejoin the project, Laporta added: “We will have a European competition that competes with the Premier League.
“I believe that the English teams will not enter at first.
“We’d love for them to come in, but my opinion is that initially, they won’t. I believe that everything will end with a merger later.”
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