Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish says that new changes proposed to the Champions League from 2024 would have a "devastating effect" on English football.
Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, who leads the European Club Association, said on Monday that planned changes would be agreed in the next few weeks that would add an extra four matches per club in an update to the group stages, which would take the overall amount of games from 125 up to 225 per year.
Palace chairman Parish says that the decision is the start of a "creep" towards a European Super League and that it could end the League Cup as a competition in England.
"This would have a quite devastating effect on domestic competition in England," Parish told the European Leagues' Club Advisory Platform.
"We have three competitions, one of which, the League Cup, is one of the largest contributors to the EFL and its clubs.
"This proposal will probably see the end of that cup in its entirety or reduced to some kind of youth competition."
In the proposed new model, two teams would be allowed into the competition based on historical co-efficient as long as they had done enough to qualify for a European competition.
Parish blasted that idea, claiming that the initial principles of the top competition in Europe are being removed, and that domestic football would be taking a back-seat to a European Super League.
"Last year, as it’s proposed, Leicester would have finished fifth in the Premier League but two clubs below them [Tottenham and Arsenal] would have qualified for the Champions League based on some arbitrary period of success in Europe," Parish stated.
"My question to everybody is, where does this all end? When we began, the Champions League was a knock-out competition with five games just for the champions, we’re now looking at an extra 100 games.
"This may not be affecting your domestic league as much as it looks like it will be affecting our domestic competitions in this cycle, but the creep is never-ending.
"With the assault on the calendar, we are talking about a transfer of value from domestic leagues to European competition and I think it’s very concerning.
"We are seeing with the co-efficient and the calendar principles that are being attempted to be ingrained, so that next time things can be changed even more and domestic competition in the end takes a secondary seat to a European super league."
