On Sunday 18 April the European Super League (“ESL”) issued a press release stating that ‘Twelve of Europe’s leading football clubs today come together to announce they have agreed to establish a new mid-week competition, the Super League, governed by its Founding Clubs’. This article considers what challenges the ESL and its Founding Clubs face in seeking to create its proposed new mid-week competition, and whether the ESL could oppose those challenges.

Football Law and Linklaters’ SportingLinks have linked up to produce a podcast. In this podcast Mark Warren, Kalin Ivanov and Jason Shardlow-Wrest of Linklaters and Thomas Horton discuss how football clubs playing in UEFA club competitions or the English Football League have grappled with those competitions’ financial fair play regulations this year.

On 28 July 2020 the Court of Arbitration for Sport released its final award with reasons in Manchester City FC’s appeal against UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body’s decision that found MCFC to have overstated sponsorship revenue and not cooperated with the CFCB’s investigations. This article explains the CAS’s decision and considers the significance of the same.

UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body has banned Manchester City FC (“MCFC”) from UEFA club competitions for two years and fined MCFC €30,000,000 for MCFC’s breaches of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations. This article explains the circumstances and the applicable legal framework of those sanctions and considers what can be expected from MCFC’s appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the same.