Super League Timeline

Updated Apr. 21, 2021 4:16 p.m. ET

Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — Super League Timeline:

1990s — Wealthy European soccer clubs make veiled threats of breaking away into a Super League to pressure UEFA into giving them more Champions League money and format changes in their favor.

2008 — European Club Association created to make long-term peace with UEFA and lock club leaders into Champions League consultation.

November 2018 — Real Madrid-backed

2019 — ECA-backed plan for semi-closed Champions League in 2024

October 2020 — Outgoing Barcelona president Josep

December 2020 — UEFA works on a 36-team Champions League plan to start in 2024 that gives clubs the extra games and money they have demanded.

January — Reports emerge of Real Madrid-backed Super League plan with financier JP Morgan Chase. UEFA and FIFA unite to oppose, threaten bans for players who take part.

March 8 — ECA chairman Andrea Agnelli of Juventus praises UEFA’s proposed Champions League changes, calls the 36-team, single-standings format “beautiful.”

March 29-31 — ECA-UEFA

April 16 — ECA board and UEFA’s club competitions committee sign off on Champions League changes with no dissent ahead of expected decision at Monday’s meeting of UEFA executive committee.

April 17 — Rumors of imminent Super League plan emerge. Ceferin later reveals that Agnelli stopped taking or replying to his phone calls.

April 18 — Reports of a Super League announcement sparks a backlash by former players and French President Emmanuel Macron. The 12-team Super League is later announced in coordinated statements from the clubs after most fans in Europe are asleep. Agnelli resigns as ECA chairman and from the UEFA executive committee.

April 19 — UEFA executive committee confirms the 36-team Champions League revamp. British government warns of new legislation on club ownership to help block the Super League.

April 20 — Real Madrid president Pérez, who would be Super League chairman, breaks his silence on an overnight Spanish show. He

April 21 — Atlético Madrid, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus drop out,

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