Hearts are facing just 13 home matches next season with the Championship set to start a truncated campaign in October.
Clubs in the second tier will play nine games less than their Premiership counterparts with plans to get the action underway by mid-October.
The top flight is working towards a 1 August kick-off with those in the league below agreeing provisionally on 17 October as a date to aim for, reports the Daily Mail.
That would mean a 27-game season with clubs facing each other just three times in stead of four.
That will create a fixture imbalance against certain teams, with some set to miss out on a bumper payday with one less home game against Hearts, who are likely to take large traveling supports away from home.
Some Championship clubs had been keen to mothball the season until January when fans could be allowed back into stadiums in greater numbers.
But with Tynecastle benefactor James Anderson pledging £50,000 to each SPFL club to cover the cost of coronoavirus testing and fans able to stream matches via a virtual season ticket, that plan has been shelved.
But it also means Ann Budge’s reconstruction proposal, which clubs are email their position on to the SPFL by 5pm today, is pretty much dead in the water.
That means that a legal challenge is the only avenue left open to the Jambos, which Budge has confirmed she will pursue.
