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Monday briefing: European Leagues push for new revenue redistribution model

Claudius Schaefer

IMAGO

16 March 2026 - 5:30 AM

European Leagues have called for a new revenue redistribution model in European club football, warning that growing international competition income is widening financial gaps and weakening domestic leagues.

Speaking at the organisation’s general assembly in Sofia, chair Claudius Schäfer said international football revenues are growing significantly faster than domestic league revenues, creating what he described as an “ongoing process of cannibalisation of domestic league value”.

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