Proposals for a European Super League in association football

Proposals for a European Super League in association football consist of recurring attempts by individual teams or consortiums of association football clubs to advocate for the creation of an additional tier of European football outside of the traditional footballing pyramids of each national football association.

Starting in 1968 with a theoretical proposal by then UEFA general secretary Hans Bangerter to replace the European Champions Cup and the Cup Winners' Cup for a unique pan-continental championship. Since the late 1980s, various structural proposals — differing in format and eligibility rules — have been put forward at different times. Any proposals have traditionally been objected to by UEFA –despite its executives' involvement in favour of that– and FIFA as well as the national associations for being regarded potentially elitist.

Discussions about the potential for a sole European league gained force in the 1970s but drew legal traction only in the late of the following decade. The formation of the G-14 in 1998 and the rise of the European Club Forum (ECF), an UEFA task force composed by 102 clubs in 2002, including all G-14 members, both merged for constituting the European Club Association six years later; brought the collective bargaining power of Europe's biggest teams to obtain more income from the confederation, and combined with initial suggestions of a breakaway league concessions were earned. From 2009, Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez was a prominent public advocate for the idea; various discussions and proposals continued thereafter.