Next season's Scottish Premiership campaign looks set to shut down for a month between November and December next year due to the unseasonal 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The festival of football is traditionally a summer tournament, but the high humidity and searing temperatures in the Middle East at that time have year forced organisers to play the competition in the winter on health grounds.
And that is set to cause havoc for the domestic calendars across the globe, with leagues shutting down mid-season.
According to the BBC, Motherwell and their fellow Scottish Premiership clubs are "being consulted over plans to hold 16 rounds of fixtures between 30 July and 13 November, before halting until 17 December - the day before the World Cup final."
Their report adds that the Premiership will hold its final round of fixtures for the 2022/23 season on the weekend of May 27/28, with the Premiership play-off final and Scottish Cup final set for June.
The League Cup final would be played in February, with the last four of the tournament played in the January,
Football is expected to play on in the lower leagues across the country during the World Cup, which will run from November 21 to December 18, 2022.
Scotland have yet to qualify for the 2022 World Cup, but are currently on track to land a play-off position, sitting second in qualifying Group F as things stand.
Steve Clarke's side continue their quest over the next week with a home qualifier against Israel on Saturday night and a trip to Faroe Islands on Tuesday.
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