What if the Super League Happened?
By Jim James
The Super League, created almost a full year ago now, was a league created by the oober rich European fat cats as a breakaway from the Champions League, but now stands as a monument of what, when united, football fans can achieve, with it being dismantled within days. However, what if it happened? In this post I’ll explain what I believe would have happened. Let’s begin!
#1: League Punishments
The leagues were obviously unhappy about the Super League, but since the big teams were their cash cows, they let them stay, but with punishments.
– 30 point deductions for the Super League teams, 15% profit confiscation from the 20/21 season, 10 point deductions for the 21/22 and 22/23 seasons, and a 5 point deduction for the 23/24 season.
Updated Premier League table 20/21:
1: Leicester
2: West Ham
3: Leeds
4: Everton
5: Man City*
6: Aston Villa
7: Newcastle
8: Wolves
9: Man Utd
10: Crystal Palace
11: Southampton
12: Brighton
13: Liverpool
14: Burnley
15: Chelsea
16: Spurs
17: Arsenal
18: Fulham
19: West Brom
20: Sheffield Utd
Updated Premier League Table 21/22 (So Far)
1: Man City*
2: Liverpool*
3: Chelsea*
4: West Ham (UCL)
5: Wolves (UCL)
6: Spurs*
7: Arsenal*
8: Man Utd*
9: Leicester (UCL)
10: Crystal Palace (UCL)
11: Brighton (UEL)
12: Aston Villa (UECL)
13: Brentford
14: Brighton
15: Newcastle
16: Leeds
17: Everton
18: Burnley
19: Watford
20: Norwich
La Liga 20/21
1: Sevilla
2: Real Sociedad
3: Real Betis
4: Villarreal
5: Atlético*
6: Real Madrid*
7: Celta Vigo
8: Barca
9: Granada
10: Bilbao
11: Osasuna
12: Cadiz
13: Valencia
14: Levante
15: Getafe
16: Alaves
17: Elche
18: Huesca
19: Valladolid
20: Eibar
La Liga 21/22 (So far)
1: Real Madrid*
2: Sevilla (UCL)
3: Real Betis (UCL)
4: Real Sociedad (UCL)
5: Barca*
6: Atlético*
7: Villarreal (UCL)
8: Bilbao (UEL)
9: Valencia (UECL)
10: Osasuna
11: Espanyol
12: Vigo
13: Rayo
14: Getafe
15: Elche
16: Granada
17: Mallorca
18: Cadiz
19: Levante
20: Alaves
20/21 Serie A
1: Atalanta
2: Napoli
3: Lazio
4: Roma
5: Sassuolo
6: Inter*
7: Sampdoria
8: AC Milan
9: Juventus
10: Hellas Verona
11: Genoa
12: Bologna
13: Fiorentina
14: Udinese
15: La Spezia
16: Cagliari
17: Torino
18: Benevento
19: Crotone
20: Parma
21/22 Serie A (So far)
1: Napoli (UCL)
2: AC Milan*
3: Roma (UCL)
4: Inter*
5: Lazio (UCL)
6: Fiorentina (UCL)
7: Juventus*
8: Atalanta (UEL)
9: Sassuolo (UECL)
10: Verona
11: Torino
12: Udinese
13: Bologna
14: Empoli
15: La Spezia
16: Sampdoria
17: Cagliari
18: Venezia
19: Genoa
20: Salernitana
*Super League Club, can’t compete in European Competitions
#2: UEFA Punishments
As angry as the Leagues were, UEFA are even angrier. They strip every Super League team of their Champions League and Europa League titles, and give them to the best performing non-Super League team, which means 41 Champions Leagues are re-awarded. We’ll get to that later. They also prevent players on Super League teams from being in the Euros, we’ll also get to that later, and ban the teams in the Super League from ever appearing in European Competition again, and they were in the 20/21 UCL Semi Finals at that stage, so ¾ were disqualified, and PSG, the one club left, won by default.
*Won in real life
UEFA Champions League New Winners by Year
56: Reims
57: Fiorentina
58: Vasas SC
59: Reims
60: Frankfurt
61: Benfica*
62: Benfica*
63: Benfica
64: Dortmund
65: Benfica
66: Partizan
67: Celtic*
68: Benfica
69: Ajax
70: Feyenoord*
71: Ajax*
72: Ajax*
73: Ajax*
74: Celtic
75: Bayern*
76: Bayern*
77: Bayern*
78: Brugge
79: Nottingham Forest*
80: Nottingham Forest*
81: Red Star
82: Aston Villa*
83: Hamburg*
84: Roma
85: Bordeaux
86: FCSB*
87: Porto*
88: PSV*
89: FCSB
90: Benfica
91: Red Star*
92: Sampdoria
93: Marseille*
94: Monaco
95: Ajax*
96: Ajax
97: Dortmund*
98: Monaco
99: Dynamo Kyiv
00: Valencia
01: Bayern*
02: Bayer Leverkusen
03: Valencia
04: Porto*
05: PSV
06: Villarreal
07: Valencia
08: Fenerbahce
09: Porto
10: Lyon
11: Schalke 04
12: Benfica
13: Bayern*
14: PSG
15: Bayern
16: PSG
17: Monaco
18: Roma
19: Ajax
20: Bayern*
21: PSG
Clubs with most trophies:
Benfica: 7
Ajax: 7
Bayern: 7
PSG: 3
Monaco: 3
Valencia: 3
Porto: 3
Reims: 2
Dortmund: 2
Celtic: 2
Nottingham Forest: 2
Red Star: 2
Roma: 2
FCSB: 2
PSV: 2
Fiorentina: 1
Partizan: 1
Vasas SC: 1
Frankfurt: 1
Brugge: 1
Aston Villa: 1
Hamburg: 1
Bordeaux: 1
Marseille: 1
Dynamo Kyiv: 1
Bayer Leverkusen: 1
Villarreal: 1
Fenerbahce: 1
Lyon: 1
Schalke: 1
#3: Super League teams create new Euros replacement
With the threat of a mass exodus because of no Euros, the Super League leaders scramble to create new international representatives for every country in Europe. The new Euros is called “The European Super International Tournament” or “ESIT” for short. They Have 5 Groups of 11 teams and the top 3 advance automatically to the RO16 and the 4th place teams go to a preliminary tournament where there’s a semi-final and final, the 2 worst 4th placed teams go to a 1st round match to play the best 4th place teams and 2 & 3 play each other. The winner of 1 vs 4/5 play the winner of 2/3 to get the last RO16 spot. There are no qualifiers.
However, that is what I think would happen. It is realstic yet interesting. What do think would have happened if the dreaded Super League happened? I’m Jim James, until next time.