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European Super League saga coming soon to TV! Production companies planning to release multi-part documentary into breakaway league that rocked football in April... with FIFA and UEFA contacted for key interviews

The wounds from this year's failed European Super League coup are set to be re-opened thanks to plans to release a multi-part Netflix-style documentary on the 48 hours that rocked football.

Sportsmail has learned a number of the industry's most prominent documentary-makers have started early investigations into the breakaway league that sent shockwaves through the sport in April.

The relevant governing bodies — including UEFA and FIFA — have been contacted with a view to obtaining key interviews with the leading figures behind the rise and immediate fall of the ESL.

There are plans to release a Netflix-style documentary on the European Super League

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who was deeply critical of the plot, is understood to have been approached by at least one production company.