The UEFA(European) Champions League is the most popular football club competition in the world. In its current incarnation it is a knockout tournament where th

The UEFA(European) Champions League is the most popular football club competition in the world. In its current incarnation it is a knockout tournament where the best positioned clubs in all the different national leagues come together to compete. So the basic idea is that you have to reach a certain position in your domestic league to compete in the tournament next year. Otherwise you don't get to compete, or you can compete in a lower rated Europa League. The big clubs didn't like this, the idea that they might miss out on the CL and the big TV bucks, and on the other hand they don't like the idea that small, not attractive clubs can get in the CL and basically lower the TV appeal of matches since less fans follow them. So, they decided to ignore the CL, and create their own competition which would pretty much look exactly like the American NBA,NHL,etc. model. The clubs would be fixed always the same, regardless of how they play in their national leagues. But they did expect to continue playing in the national leagues, simply abstaining from the UEFA competitions. Basically the idea of an unchanging big club Super Legaue goes against what a lot of people consider to be the biggest appeal of Europe wide football: free competition, lots of clubs from all around, a chance for everyone to win, a strict requirement to play good in your national league.