Super League: The War for Football

This Apple TV+ series chronicles the rise and collapse of the proposed European Super League across a pivotal 96 hour period in April 2021, exposing a power struggle between UEFA and Europe's elite clubs. The design brief spanned titles, informational graphics, and archival treatments. The challenge was bringing clarity to a story built on institutional complexity: leagues, governing bodies, and billion dollar interests colliding in real time.

Role  -  Design and Concept
Client  -  All Rise Films, AppleTV+
Scope - Title design, Information graphics, typographic system
Recognition - Sports Emmy: Outstanding Graphic Design, Speciality

Design System

A cohesive visual system holds the narrative together while a series of distinct, connected design languages provide hierarchy and structure to the unfolding conflict. Information design does the heavy lifting, translating the architecture of European football into graphics a global audience can read instantly.

Conceptual sketches mapped the foundational structure of European football and the pathways open to any aspiring club. Additional diagrams visualized how the proposed Super League would disrupt and ultimately block that meritocratic system.

Ross Henderson

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