The Super League, organised by the European Super League Company, S.L., and commonly referred to as the European Super League (ESL), was a proposed annual club football competition to be contested by twenty European football clubs. The league was to include fifteen founding clubs, who would be governing partners and direct participants in the competition during its first seasons, alongside five other football clubs, who could qualify based on their performance in their domestic league's most recent season. It was planned as a breakaway competition to either rival or replace the UEFA Champions League, Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA. However, on April 19th and 20th, 1-2 days after the formation of the super league, several followers of the sport demanded the canc