Judgment_paragraph 89 · European Superleague Company, SL v Fédération internationale de football association (FIFA) and Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) (C-333/21)

89The rules at issue in the main proceedings, however, irrespective of whether they originate from FIFA or UEFA, do not form part of those rules to which the exception referred to in paragraph 84 of the present judgment might be applied, which exception the Court has stated repeatedly must be limited to its proper objective and may not be relied upon to exclude the whole of a sporting activity from the scope of the FEU Treaty provisions on EU economic law (see, to that effect, judgments of 14 July 1976, Donà, 13/76, EU:C:1976:115, paragraphs 14 and 15, and of 18 July 2006, Meca-Medina and Majcen v Commission, C‑519/04 P, EU:C:2006:492, paragraph 26).