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If there ever is a continental European football league....?
What I mean by that is some of the chatter about moving past what the Champions League is- instead of having a long playoff series, certain teams from lots of European leagues break away from their current leagues either permanently or semi-permanently so they can do a whole regular season against one another, qualify teams for global competitions, and leave it at that. So it would not be a playoff series- it would be a league in the same sense that any other league is a league, but this would be an all-over-Europe league that would generate billions and billions of dollars and break the meter used for measuring viewership of anything.
My question is this, to fans of football/soccer and especially anyone who has an interest in Champions League play. Would you prefer to see an all-Europe league modeled on the American football way of adding teams to the NFL (or any other American sports league), where the size of a city, marketability, and relative success of a program is what puts a team in and then they basically stay there every year without getting relegated? Or would you prefer to see a system of promotion and relegation, perhaps with a second tier of teams, also from all over Europe?
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- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
This idea is not new to UEFA. I think question is WHEN and not IF. The problem would be distances: when a team from Scandinavian countries has to travel to Turkey, Greece or Italy. National leagues and quality of football ( attendance and so on) would be losers too.
By the way, I think that system of promotion/relegation is of big importance in sports. Popularity of soccer in America could only win if MSL was based on this system.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Problems:
Usually the top 4 teams in each top flight league tend to generate 50%+ revenues. If you take these top teams away then some leagues will fold.
This is because of TV revenue. La Liga would collapse for sure it is all but bankrupt. Even Real Madrid is hundreds of million in debt, but TV revenue keeps it alive.
The Bundesliga is financially the most sound.
The different cup tournaments are very interesting with the domestic and national cup competitions which give lesser clubs a chance to win big trophies. An example is Wigan Athletic winning the FA Cup over Man City.
Source(s): Meisters of Europe and the World.