I Support Scottish Clubs Joining The Atlantic League In Football

 I support Scottish football sides joining the new idea of the Atlantic League for football. 

The idea of the Atlantic League is to have a cross border super league of clubs from Scotland, Ireland and Scandinavia.

The creates a huge potential market for teams, for TV rights, sponsorship, and big high quality games,  

I think it is the way forward for Scottish football.

As long as there is promotion and relegation for other clubs to enter the system, I think that is fair. 

At present we have a system where only the big nations can develop clubs capable of winning the Champions League or Europa League. 

I want to get back to the olden days when Scottish sides could realistically hope to win the European trophies. In those days it was the European Cup, the UEFA Cup, European Cup Winners Cup and the European Super Cup.

Teams like Celtic and Rangers obviously used to get far in European trophies, and sometimes still do. But in the old days even smaller clubs like Aberdeen, Hearts, Hibs, Dundee United, Dundee, Kilmarnock, and Dunfermline Athletic had long campaigns in European football. Getting to the later stages and even winning the trophies.  

I add as a proviso, that there has to be relegation and promotion. 

My problem with European Super Leagues is when they are only open to the big countries, and are closed shops with no relegation and promotion. 

This idea seems to be have relegation and promotion. So it would be very likely that someone could invest in the smaller Scottish sides to get them into the Atlantic League. 

Also I think there would have to be a share of the money given to the national leagues, as compensation for losing their biggest sides, So if the league took off it could generate more money for Scottish league sides. 

I think there would be massive games like Glasgow Celtic v IFK, Glasgow Rangers v Rosenborg,  Aberdeen v AIK, Heart of Midlothian v Copenhagen, Brøndby v Hibernian, and Viking Stavanger v Malmo. 

The league would give higher quality games, higher profile games. 

It is also nonsense to suggest that league would be bad for smaller Scottish sides. In the present system Scottish smaller clubs cannot realistically to win European trophies. In this system they could realistically aim for promotion to a league that could give them the resources to attract major international and win European trophies. 

Thanks. 

I Support Scottish Clubs Joining the Atlantic League In Football.

It is football / soccer idea. =-