UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has described a report by the Football Leaks website of a new ‘super’ Champions League as fiction.
The richest clubs in Europe are regularly in dialogue about ways to maximise income which inevitably leads to threats of a breakaway or a new closed shop.
Reports of a 16 or 20 team elite league comprising of the top teams from England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France have been floated at the same time as UEFA hands more power over to the top teams.
Sixteen places in the group stage of the Champions League have now been reserved for the leading nations with the squeeze going on further down the supply chain.
UEFA review their competitions every three years but Ceferin insists that there are no plans to create a closed shop for the elite tournament.
“The Super League will not happen,” he told the BBC. “It is in a way a fiction now or a dream.”
UEFA will announce details of their third competition next month with other changes in the pipeline.
Despite the denials of ‘Super League’ plans either by plan or design it seems certain that European football competition is going to be increasingly geared towards and arranged by the richest clubs in the game.