The big three clubs, Juventus, Inter and Milan, are reportedly in favour of reducing Serie A from 20 to 18.
The proposal was discussed by FIGC president Gabriele Gravina as part of wider reforms aimed at making Italian football more sustainable.
The Lega Serie A and most of the affected clubs lately oppose this idea, but the verdict is not unanimous.
Juventus, Inter and Milan reportedly stepped up at today’s Serie A club meeting and subsidized 18 teams to take over.
It’s probably not that those were also the three clubs that took part in the European Super League’s breakaway allocation before its collapse.
This would reduce the number of fixtures in an already packed season and enable the top flight clubs to divide up the cash between them more effectively.
Serie A had 16 between 1967 and 1988, expanding to 18 in 1988 and then to 20 in 2004.
During the same assembly today, the president of the Lega Serie A, Lorenzo Casini, announced the start of a procedure to evaluate whether it was imaginable to apply a more autonomous formula, similar to that of the Premier League, to separate from the FIGC.
#Inter, #Milan and #Juventus are in the process of aligning the 20-18 team with the #SérieA responses.
Scenario ad oggi minoritario in Lega, ma da quanto si apprende i tre club condividono questa posizione.
– Giovanni Capuano (@capuanogio) February 5, 2024
This article was first published on Football Italia and was distributed with permission.
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