An injunction has been restored to protect the European Super League from UEFA sanctions ©Getty Images

Madrid's High Court has restored an injunction to protect the football clubs attempting to establish the European Super League from UEFA sanctions and other stakeholders.

A22 Sports Management, the company created to explore the possibility of forming the breakaway competition, said that it will continue to speak with stakeholders "free from threats and other obstructive steps taken by UEFA and other bodies".

The Madrid High Court stated, "that the conduct of UEFA and FIFA against the Super League project cannot be justified as a protection of the general interests of European football" but could constitute "an unjustifiable abuse by those who hold a dominant position."

"We welcome the fact that this court decision allows A22 to freely continue the project of creating a new and exciting European football competition," said A22 Sports Management chief executive Bernd Reichart.

"It confirms that UEFA's monopoly position cannot be used to pressure or threaten clubs, players or companies willing to innovate and invigorate competition in professional football.

The European Super League was met with severe criticism when the project was first announced ©Getty Images
The European Super League was met with severe criticism when the project was first announced ©Getty Images

"We will therefore continue our dialogue with football stakeholders in a new and more appropriate environment, free from threats and other obstructive steps taken by UEFA and other bodies."

The Court claimed that FIFA and UEFA's objections to the project for the protection of European football is a weak excuse.

It said that the two organisations were blocking free competition and the freedom of enterprise with "anachronistic models".

UEFA and La Liga had already been fined by the Court during the course of legal proceedings surrounding the European Super League for "acting in procedural bad faith".

The case is now pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union and will return to Spanish courts following that.

FIFA and UEFA cited the European sports model, upon which most of the continent's sporting institutions are built, as its reasoning for blocking the European Super League.

The model aims to promote solidarity across different levels of sport, ensuring that revenue generated by professional competition is reinvested into developing football at grassroots levels.