European Super League 2019-20

UPDATED August 23, '20: Final Standings are complete.

Some of the the richest clubs of European football have made noise about permanent spots in the UEFA Champions League, or wanting to create a closed European Super League. Naturally, I would prefer an open Super League, with promotion and relegation with the domestic leagues.

Since there are too many "big" clubs for one twenty-team league, I have created a twenty-team Super League and a second division with forty teams, split into East and West Leagues. To pick which teams are placed in which leagues, I used the UEFA Club Coefficients from the end of the 2014-15 season. Since then, each season, teams were relegated from the Super League to Division 2, replaced by the East and West champions. Beginning last season, the second-place team with the better record was also promoted to the Super League. (Ideally a playoff.) Three teams from each Division 2 league are relegated, replaced by the six teams that progress the furthest in the Champions League and Europa League. (Ideally, this would just be the final Champions League teams, with the relegated teams automatically qualified for the next season's Champions League so they have the potential for promotion as soon as possible.)

After the previous season, Schalke 04 was relegated from the Super League to Division 2 West. Napoli and Shakhtar Donetsk were relegated from the Super League to Division League East. Tottenham Hotspur, Genk and Salzburg were promoted from Division 2 to the Super League. PSV Eindhoven, Málaga, Leicester City, Ludogorets 1945, Basel 1893 and FCSB were relegated to their respective domestic leagues. Eintracht Frankfurt, Stade Rennais and Celtic were promoted to Division 2 West. Slavia Praha, Krasnodar and Dinamo Zagreb were promoted to Division 2 East.

To keep East and West at 20 teams each, Milan moved to the West.

Here is a map of the sixty teams in the international leagues. Click the rectangle tab thing in the upper left to get to the list where you can deselect the separate divisions.

Below are the final standings.

The standings include only games against teams in a team's division (Super League or Division 2). The first tiebreaker is the number of games played. The second tiebreaker is the UEFA club coefficient rankings.

The six teams that will be promoted from the domestic leagues are the six teams (that aren't above) who progress the furthest in the Champions League and Europa League. This will be Atalanta and the best five in the Europa League, which are Basel 1893, Copenhagen, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Wolfsburg and İstanbul Başakşehir.