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Court ‘Ruling Does Not Signify An Endorsement Of Super League’: UEFA | Football News
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Court ‘Ruling Does Not Signify An Endorsement Of Super League’: UEFA | Football News

[ad_1] UEFA said Thursday's ruling by Europe's top court that it and FIFA had broken EU law to stifle the creation of a rival Super League "does not signify an endorsement or validation of" the breakaway competition. UEFA continued: "It rather underscores a pre-existing shortfall within UEFA's pre-authorisation framework, a technical aspect that has already been acknowledged and addressed in June 2022. "UEFA is confident in the robustness of its new rules, and specifically that they comply with all relevant European laws and regulations."The ruling by the European Court of Justice was based on UEFA rules prior to the changing of them in 2022."The FIFA and UEFA rules making any new interclub football project subject to their prior approval, such as the Super League, and prohibiting clubs ...
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UEFA To Reimburse Liverpool Fans Who Attended Paris Champions League Final | Football News
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UEFA To Reimburse Liverpool Fans Who Attended Paris Champions League Final | Football News

[ad_1] UEFA said Tuesday it will reimburse all Liverpool supporters who attended last year's chaos-hit Champions League final between the English club and Real Madrid at the Stade de France in Paris. Heavily criticised in an independent report published last month for organisational failures which "almost led to disaster", European football's governing body said its refund scheme would cover the entire Liverpool allocation of nearly 20,000, as well as supporters of Real and other spectators affected by the trouble outside the stadium."Refunds will be available to all fans... where the most difficult circumstances were reported," UEFA said, adding that all ticket-holders who did not enter the stadium by the originally scheduled kick-off time, or could not get in at all, would also receive...
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UEFA ‘Responsible’ For Paris Champions League Final Chaos: Report | Football News
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UEFA ‘Responsible’ For Paris Champions League Final Chaos: Report | Football News

[ad_1] UEFA itself bears "primary responsibility" for failures which "almost led to disaster" at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris between Liverpool and Real Madrid, a report commissioned by the European football body said Monday. The report also claimed the policing model was influenced by a view of Liverpool based on the deadly 1989 Hillsborough disaster on incorrect assumptions that the city's supporters were a threat to public order. The report said that the panel "has concluded that UEFA, as event owner, bears primary responsibility for failures which almost led to disaster."The panel also said it was astonished that the policing model was influenced by a view of Liverpool hooliganism based on Hillsborough."The safety, security and service model laid out in the Saint-Denis Co...
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UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin Unopposed For New Mandate | Football News
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UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin Unopposed For New Mandate | Football News

[ad_1] File image of Aleksander Ceferin© AFPAleksander Ceferin is the only candidate for a third mandate as UEFA president, European football's governing body said on Friday. The 55-year-old Slovenian lawyer, who has faced a stern challenge to his authority from breakaway clubs trying to create a European Super League, will be re-elected at a congress in Lisbon in April. Ceferin was first elected in 2016 and has also clashed with FIFA president Gianni Infantino, notably over the idea of holding the World Cup every two years instead of every four years.The UEFA chief looks set to face further battles over the Super League following comments on Thursday from Barcelona president Joan Laporta who said he believed the competition could be up and running from 2025 if a key European court rulin...
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