The European Leagues' main goal is to enhance and protect competitive balance in league competitions through Good Governance, Sporting Merit and Solidarity.
The Danish Superliga
@Superligaen
reject the vision for UEFA club competitions
"Qualification for European Club Competitions through domestic competitions is the essence of our footballing system and European football culture."
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There’s no space for any Super League.
Glory is not a status quo.
At the European Leagues we believe in sacrifice and hard work to achieve success.
Be open.
Be inclusive.
Football is for all.
EARN IT ON THE PITCH!
ℹ️ As we entered last week in the last UEFA club competitions campaign of the current cycle, we will transition as from next season into the 2024-27 cycle.
A period marked by significant changes, particularly in the Format, Calendar and Access List of all European club…
With the decision taken by the Turkish football authorities today, all
@EuropeanLeagues
members have now suspended and postponed the re-start of their domestic competitions
European League Statement :
🗣️"The European sports model is based on sporting merit, promotion and relegation with qualification to international club competitions via domestic league competitions."
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LEAGUES' OVERVIEW - 12 June 2020:
The latest about the resumption of domestic competitions and the situation about fans across Europe🏟️⚽️
Download here the latest Overview from our Members➡️
During our recent General Assembly in Riga, the
@EuropeanLeagues
Association welcomed a new member, the
@FAWales
🏴🤝
Nick Davies, FAW Senior Competitions Manager🗣️"With the Football Association of Wales and our national leagues, we are now in a key moments of growth for our…
The 42nd Ordinary
#UEFACongress
held today in Bratislava has just unanimously endorsed the inclusion of
@EPFL_Leagues
President Lars-Christer Olsson in the UEFA Executive Committee as full member with voting rights
During 2016/17 season, the
@spfl
recorded the highest attendance in Europe based on country inhabitants 🏴📈
The
@News_SFL
🇨🇭,
@notoppfotball
🇳🇴 and
@Superligaen
🇩🇰 are next on the list!
To download the official report 📊➡️
Our European Leagues map is getting greener every day! This means more domestic competitions are ready to resume their season during the upcoming days and weeks! 👏⚽️
Download here the latest Overview from our Members ➡️
Today, the
@EuropeanLeagues
and its members have signed a joint Declaration on the European Football Pyramid with the support of all European stakeholders
@FIFPRO
,
@ECAEurope
,
@FansEurope
&
@UEFA
The European football family wholeheartedly declare and commit to the following…
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@EuropeanLeagues
President Lars-Christer Olsson addressing to an audience of more than 200 clubs: "The ECA concept will give "European security" for a limited number of rich clubs and nothing at all for the rest of us"
The European Leagues stands for tolerance, respect and peace as key values of our society and in sport. We share solidarity to our Member the Ukrainian Premier League and the Ukrainian people and condemn the brutal acts of war of these days 🇺🇦🙏🏼
The
@EuropeanLeagues
is happy to welcome
@Veikkausliiga
🇫🇮, the 10th league to our growing collective international media rights project.
With the aim of generating incremental Revenues💲, growing international Reach🌎and Researching audience viewership trends 📈
Our annual Domestic Competitions Overview for season 2023/24 is out now! 🔎 Get an in-depth overview of the structure of our member leagues shaping the European Football Ecosystem ⚽
European Leagues represent:
🔹 40 Professional Leagues & Associations of Clubs
🔹 34 European…
Full support for today’s resolution adopted by the Council of Europe:
✅Protecting the European sporting model
✅Calling football authorities to increase solidarity and improve the redistribution of financial resources
@PACE_News
@GeorgeFoulkes
The
@EuropeanLeagues
General Assembly has endorsed the inclusion of the
@OfficialNIFL
as new Development Member. European Leagues now has 36 Member Leagues and Associations of Clubs from 29 European countries
The first Panel discussion of the day includes representatives of
@FCBasel1893
,
@KAAGent
,
@Udinese_1896
and
@1FSVMainz05
and all stressing that clubs should qualify to UEFA Club Competitions via the domestic leagues and with performances on the pictch.
Grateful to the
@OfficialNIFL
for the warm welcome at their General Assembly in Belfast.
It’s always great to have the opportunity to visit our members and engage with their clubs on important matters in league football.
🏟️ This week the NI Football League welcomed
@EuropeanLeagues
CEO Jacco Swart to the General Assembly of member clubs at the Mervyn Brown Suite.
NIFL Chairman Colin Kennedy presented Jacco with a gift to mark his visit to the league 🤝
The European Leagues’ second Club Advisory Platform is live in Madrid! ⚽️🇪🇸 Thanks to
@LaLiga
for hosting more than 240 Clubs, alongside the Leagues and all the other football stakeholders 👍🏻
The European Leagues held today a Board of Directors and a General meeting with all their Members to discuss the evolution of European Clubs Competitions from 2024 onwards
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🚨DEADLINEDAY🚨
Few more hours before the closing of the football transfer window in some key European markets ⌚️
#DeadlineDay
You want to know the exact time remaining until the closure of the summer 2019 players’ registration period, check below ⬇️
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📽️One week ago today, our 40 member leagues and key European football stakeholders convened in the Latvian capital 🇱🇻 for the 47th
@EuropeanLeagues
General Assembly.
🤝A moment of collaboration, intense discussions, exchange, and learning for all our guests. Let's take a look…
Club Advisory Platform in Madrid:
@EuropeanLeagues
propose a fairer revenue distribution model for the UCC cycle 2021/24. More Solidarity is key to enhance competitive balance in domestic football
All
@premierleague
clubs unanimously agreed it is inappropriate for European football bodies to create plans that would alter the structures, calendar and competitiveness of the domestic game
All 20 Premier League clubs today discussed their significant concerns regarding reported proposals for changing the format and qualification criteria of UEFA club competitions from season 2024/25
Full statement:
The
@EuropeanLeagues
released the Leagues' Overview which gives a better picture of stadiums capacity and fans restrictions under COVID-19 across Europe🏟️😷
☑️Stadium capacity across Europe
☑️Restrict access to fans under Covid regulations
Take a look➡️
Gary Lineker gets it, plans crafted by UEFA in alliance with the ECA raise severe concerns for the future of the vast majority of Clubs, Domestic Competitions and overall European Football
🎞️ Let’s have a look at the highlights of last month's
@EuropeanLeagues
Football Competition Seminar in Nyon 🇨🇭.
Hear from member leagues, as they stress the importance of these meetings in addressing and brainstorming about calendar and other major issues for domestic…
With the start of 6 additional leagues this week-end, the 2023-2024 season is now well underway 🏴 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇹🇷
This timing is perfect to reflect on the last Champions from the previous five seasons in each of our member leagues (Top-tier only) 🏆
ℹ️ The number of…
@EuropeanLeagues
and
@ECAEurope
together at Parc des Princes.
European Leagues President, Pedro Proença and European Club Association President Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also Paris Saint-Germain’s President, were this Wednesday together in Paris to attend the Trophée des…
ℹ️ Exciting times ahead! Introducing the 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘅, tracking the level of competition towards the championship title in the top divisions of our member leagues across Europe🏆
As we edge closer to the final phase of domestic…
Congratulations to
@Tebasjavier
who has been ratified as representative of the
@EuropeanLeagues
on the
@UEFA
Executive Committee for a four-year term until 2025 👏🇪🇸
FIGHT AGAINST PIRACY:
@EuropeanLeagues
reiterate that a binding EU legislative initiative to tackle piracy is needed to protect the value of Live Content
@EuropeanCommiss
2023 Work Programme
🇪🇺🗳️The
@EuropeanLeagues
welcomes the overwhelming support by MEPs for the EU Sports Policy Report which has been voted at today’s plenary meeting of the European Parliament.
➡️European Leagues' statement:
The European Leagues is delighted to welcome 3 new members within the association:
🇦🇱 Liga Profesioniste E Futbollit
🇧🇬 Bulgarian Professional Football League
🇲🇹 Malta Premier League
EU's trademark authority upholds Danish clubs' ownership of the SUPERLIGA (
@Superligaen
) trademark, preventing any potential European league from registering 'The Super League' trademark in the EU 👏🇩🇰
🇬🇧 🔗
3️⃣The new Access List 🔖
The basis of the access list will remain the same as for the current season, but with the increase of participating teams in all competitions, 4 additional slots will be available in 2024/25, allocated differently according to the competition.
European Leagues presents a complete overview of the sporting results of the previous season and all key competition elements of domestic leagues across Europe for the upcoming season, on a country-by-country basis!
Read more📄➡️
Nicky Reid, CEO of the
@SPFLTrust
, explained how the power of football makes a difference at the heart of the Scottish communities and bring people together 👍🏼 Keep on the good work! ⚽️🏴
@spfl
President of
@LaLiga
and
@EuropeanLeagues
Board Memer,
@Tebasjavier
addressing to the clubs: "Does ECA represent the clubs? Why is ECA entitled to drive decisions affecting all ?
Changes shall be made with the agreement of the leagues. We will never accept to be just consulted"
With the 19/20 Leagues' Season almost coming to an end here the latest LEAGUES' OVERVIEW including:
- End dates 19/20 Seasons
- Start dates 20/21 Seasons
- Start & End dates of Summer Transfer Windows
- Return of Fans to Stadiums across Europe
EU DIGITAL SERVICES ACT 🇪🇺
❗️Concerns from the European Football Leagues❗️
Live Sports Industry calls on the EU co-legislators to make the DSA fit for live content by rejecting article 14.3a)
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1️⃣ Format Details 🏆
The most significant change is the shift from the traditional group stage to a single-league phase with now 36 teams, playing each against 8 different opponents. The final position in the table determining the access to the Play-offs or directly to the…
On Monday 5 August,
@EuropeanLeagues
and the Clubs of Belgium
@ProLeagueBE
discussed the proposals for the reform of European Club Competitions 2024 onward presented by UEFA and supported by the European Club Association (ECA)
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📆Last week, 20 participants from all across Europe gathered in Madrid for the third session of the EL's ELEVATE Executive Programme.
@LaLiga
hosted the three-day meeting, where the overarching theme of all presentations was “Fan Engagement”
🗞️➡️
Just one week to go before our 40 member leagues and main European football stakeholders meet in Prague for the 46th
@EuropeanLeagues
General Assembly!
@LFAcze
🇨🇿🙌
ℹ️ Keep up with the latest
#46thELGA
news on Twitter
@EuropeanLeagues
and Linkedin
Today, the General Assembly of the
@Bundesliga_DE
and 2nd Bundesliga decided to continue the suspension of the matches at least until 30 April 🇩🇪
@EuropeanLeagues
- here the latest overview regarding competitions as of 30.03.2020
#COVID19
The official delegation of the European Social Dialogue with representatives from
@EuropeanLeagues
,
@UEFA
,
@EcaEurope
and
@Fifpro
Division Europe where today in Serbia to foster and enhance contractual labour relations in professional football 🇷🇸🤝
The total percentage of solidarity payments should be significantly increased to help reduce the increasing financial gap in European club football.
⬆️Solidarity is a key pillar of
@EuropeanLeagues
proposals on
@UEFA
Club Competitions
@EuropeanLeagues
General Secretary, Georg Pangl : "It is very important to also include the clubs that do not have a direct representation at European level, as they are excluded from the processes of change and they are the ones most affected"