{"title":"A product thirty years in the making: the Champions League, organisational legitimacy, and the disenfranchisement of Europe’s football supporters","authors":"Daniel Ziesche","doi":"10.1080/14660970.2023.2194517","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The UEFA Champions League (CL) has tremendously shaped the power alignments in Europe’s top league since its renewed invocation in 1992. Acting both as a counter-balance but also as an amplifier to the competitive imbalance imposed by the English Premier League, UEFA has sought to maintain a link to football supporters in Europe and branding and streamlining one of football’s top products at the same time. This paper embeds these parallel and often ambivalent aspirations in a framework of organisational input and output legitimacy claiming that the CL can serve as a prime example to depict UEFA’s strategy to maintaining the status quo of European football.","PeriodicalId":47395,"journal":{"name":"Soccer & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Soccer & Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2194517","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The UEFA Champions League (CL) has tremendously shaped the power alignments in Europe’s top league since its renewed invocation in 1992. Acting both as a counter-balance but also as an amplifier to the competitive imbalance imposed by the English Premier League, UEFA has sought to maintain a link to football supporters in Europe and branding and streamlining one of football’s top products at the same time. This paper embeds these parallel and often ambivalent aspirations in a framework of organisational input and output legitimacy claiming that the CL can serve as a prime example to depict UEFA’s strategy to maintaining the status quo of European football.
自1992年重新启用以来，欧洲冠军联赛(CL)极大地塑造了欧洲顶级联赛的权力格局。欧足联既是一种平衡，也是一种扩大器，加剧了英超(English Premier League)带来的竞争不平衡。它一直在寻求与欧洲球迷保持联系，同时为足球的顶级产品之一打造品牌，并进行精简。本文将这些平行且经常矛盾的愿望嵌入到组织输入和输出合法性的框架中，声称欧冠联赛可以作为描述欧足联维持欧洲足球现状的战略的主要例子。
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