UEFA is the European Football Association in which all national football leagues are associated. They organize European tournaments in which the top clubs of th

UEFA is the European Football Association in which all national football leagues are associated. They organize European tournaments in which the top clubs of these national leagues play each other, while also playing in their national leagues. In the European Super League, a group of European top clubs wanted to establish a new league format, presumably leaving the UEFA tournaments and national competitions (although details have been vague). This would basically mean that UEFA itself would have competition by a new parallel organization. The distress has its context in the ongoing struggle between commercialization of football and its "traditional" roots in which (local) sport clubs often form part of the identity of its supporters. This identity threatens to lose its basis when the commercialization makes the clubs more and more for-profit entertainment businesses. One can argue about how far football already is down the line. But clearly, that supporter identification even with the largest clubs still persists.