🆕🚨 The Super League idea has resurfaced, and renamed itself "The Unify League"
❌ UEFA are not the good guys.
👎 But this mob remain worse, despite rebranding with some merit based qualification & offering the matches for free (with ads) to fans
🧵 Here's why:
⛔ This format is designed to squeeze out teams from the middling leagues, to allow even more teams from the top leagues into European competition.
↘️ Scotland, Turkey, Czech Republic, Norway, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Poland etc etc would all have fewer teams in European football.
📉 96 clubs across 4 tournaments (instead of 108 across 3)
🔟 Top 2 leagues would have TEN teams in Europe each! Half of the English Premier League!
⬇️ Every league from 12 down in the rankings would lose a team in European qualifiers compared to the current UEFA format, and would now have NO teams guaranteed group stage football!
1️⃣ 10th place in the coefficient would only have one team guaranteed European group stage football, unlike the three teams Scotland have been used to over recent seasons
🏆 The Champion of the 10th ranked nation is only guaranteed to participate in the bottom of the 4 leagues. With UEFA format they are guaranteed entry into the Champions League.
2️⃣ Only 2 teams could reach the top league via qualifiers - compared to 7 at present! Therefore, our Champions would very likely never again play in the top tier of European football!
❌ European football for Scottish teams would be almost over. We could be the 12th ranked nation (even that is aspirational at the moment) and have no teams in Europe after August. With UEFA format, 12th guarantees us two teams - very likely three.
📊 You can see their proposed access list below, showing:
1️⃣ How the 96 teams get access (direct access or qualifiers etc)
2️⃣ The best case scenario; if that nation won all it's qualifiers (12th = 4)
3️⃣ The worst case scenario; if that nation lost it's qualifiers (12th = 0)