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European Super League: Nine clubs that abandoned breakaway league retain ECA membership

All six Premier League clubs involved in the failed European Super League have been allowed to retain European Club Association (ECA) membership.

The ECA said it ends "a regrettable and turbulent episode" for the game.

Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus have not been reinstated.

The trio are the only clubs among the 12 founding members of the Super League which have not renounced the breakaway competition.

Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli stepped down as chairman of the ECA - the body body that represents interests of professional clubs in Europe - and was replaced by Paris St-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi after plans for the new league were announced in April.