Premier League clubs including Manchester United and Manchester City are set to discuss the potential impact of radical changes to the Champions League.
The club’s will assemble at a shareholders meeting today to debate the pros and cons of an increase in the amount of Champions League group matches.
Man Utd and Man City had to contend with just six group matches this season before making it through to the knockout stages.
But Juventus are one of the key clubs aiming to completely change the group stages of the Champions League. Juventus’ chairman Andrea Agnelli is also an Executive Member of the European Football Association.
The radical plans include altering the group stages from eight groups of four teams to four groups of eight teams.
It’s also said that the top-four qualification process could be abandoned in favour of something more of a closed shop which could serve the most historically successful clubs across Europe.
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All of these issues will be on the table to discuss at today’s shareholders meeting.
The proposed start date for the expanded competition is the 2024/25 season and it’s believed Premier League clubs have serious reservations about how the extra fixtures would be worked into the football calendar. It’s understood that one of the domestic cup competitions could be under threat as a result.
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