Football News : UEFA opens disciplinary proceedings against Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus

UEFA has opened disciplinary cases against Super League rebels Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus that could lead to bans from the Champions League. Proceedings are now active for “a potential violation of UEFA’s legal framework," UEFA said on Tuesday. The European soccer body’s statutes include a section on “prohibited groupings” of clubs or leagues forming without UEFA’s permission or outside its control. The three clubs now being prosecuted by UEFA are the remaining holdouts among 12 founders of the failed Super League project who refused to renounce it. UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin warned the clubs last month that “if they say we are a Super League, then they don’t play Champions League, of course.” UEFA gave no timetable for the expected disciplinary cases against the three which have all qualified on merit for the Champions League next season.