"Witness the high-stakes boardroom coup that almost destroyed European soccer, chronicled through candid, high-level executive interviews."
Jeff Zimbalist delivers a masterclass in sports politics with Super League: The War for Football. The four-part docuseries captures the chaotic forty-eight hours that shook global sports, pitting billionaire club owners against furious supporters and entrenched governing bodies. Featuring unprecedented access to figures like Florentino Pérez and Aleksander Čeferin, this Apple TV original offers a fierce, compelling autopsic study of corporate greed colliding head-on with football tradition.
| Watched? | # | Air Date | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| E1 | Jan 13, 2023 | Day One | |
| E2 | Jan 13, 2023 | Day Two | |
| E3 | Jan 13, 2023 | Day Three | |
| E4 | Jan 13, 2023 | Day Four |
Production Type: Miniseries
Super League: The War for Football is a standalone Miniseries designed as a completed, finite historical narrative. The production provides an exhaustive account of the high-stakes battle that erupted in 2021 when several of Europe's most powerful football clubs attempted to break away and form a private league. By utilizing unprecedented access to the sport's most powerful figures and club owners, the series serves as a definitive document of a specific crisis that fundamentally threatened the structure of international athletics.
The narrative structure was intentionally crafted to cover the rise and rapid collapse of the proposal within a four-episode framework. Because the series focuses on a singular, time-bound event in sports history, it was produced to conclude once the immediate political and social fallout of the Super League proposal reached its resolution. The project serves as a closed-ended historical analysis rather than an ongoing episodic chronicle, ensuring the story remains a self-contained exploration of power and tradition.