Sports Business News – Latest Updates From Around The World of Sports – The Athletic

Sports Business News – Latest Updates From Around The World of Sports – The Athletic

December 1, 2024

The company behind the controversial European Super League idea has tweaked its proposal once more, completely scrapping the original closed-shop format, in a bid to make it more attractive to clubs and fans.
Last December, Madrid-based A22 Sports announced it was dropping its 2021 plan of creating a 20-team league, with 15 permanent members, and instead was proposing a three-league format of 64 clubs. It did not, however, reveal how teams would access that competition.
But now, after a year of what it has described as further consultation with stakeholders, it has proposed a four-league…