Serie A has resisted reverting to an 18-team division, voting 16-4 against proposals, but the sense persists that change may come regardless
Ready for even more football? Next season’s reformatted and expanded foresees a 51 per cent increase in games. The Swiss system, for whom we have a , turns the group stage into a league stage which includes a couple of matchdays in January. Then, a fortnight after the final in Munich takes place, the new 32-team Club World Cup begins in the United States. Advertisement Piling more games on an already congested football calendar has inevitably attracted criticism from the players’ union, FIFPRO.
The tenability of their seats at those tables became subject to speculation. “What they wanted to do, it seemed, was a mini Super League,” Torino patron Urbano Cairo said after the vote. “If you look at the biggest leagues in Europe, the Premier League and , they are 20-team leagues and this means the format works.