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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Sports Argument Stadium > The Ray Parlour > European Super League Super Thread
 
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pseudodragon
Jun 16, 2007

ilmucche posted:

Huh, just realised the volleyball nations League is just like this. 12 teams always qualified, can't be relegated, 4 other teams. Different because it's a national comp, but even so..

If you’re looking at other sports for models, EuroLeague basketball is probably the closest thing. They did exactly what the ESL wanted to do and just took over the continental pro competitions from FIBA.

“wiki” posted:

Qualification
Currently, 11 out of the 18 EuroLeague places are held by licensed clubs that have long-term licenses with Euroleague Basketball, and are members of the Shareholders Executive Board.

The remaining 7 EuroLeague places are held by 5 associated clubs that have annual licences and 2 two-year wild cards. The five associated clubs are awarded through one place going to the winner of the previous season's 2nd-tier European competition, the EuroCup, with the other four places going to a combination of European national domestic league winners (ABA League, VTB United League, Basketball Bundesliga, Liga ACB).

Real and Barca are part of the 11 so it worked once for them.

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pseudodragon
Jun 16, 2007

Vegetable posted:

A bunch of clubs are already preemptively saying they won’t join the new league but a few teams like PSV are playing coy. I think the most likely outcome is UEFA revamps the CL to the clubs’ whims rather than a Super League actually happening.

I think this or the other option would be like the Premier League where essentially something similar to the existing CL takes over but just cutting UEFA out of the money/decision making.

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