Efl In Talks Over Expanding Championship Playoffs To Six Teams

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The English Football League is successful talks complete adding an eliminator information to nan Championship playoffs and expanding nan number of participants from 4 to six.

The connection is simply a akin format to nan 1 utilized by nan National League. In nan Championship nan squad that decorativeness 5th would play nan eighth-placed squad and sixth would meet seventh successful one-off ties astatine nan higher-ranked team’s location stadium.

Unlike successful nan non-league playoffs, nan winners of nan eliminators would proceed to two-leg ties against nan teams that vanished 3rd and fourth, pinch nan winners gathering astatine Wembley to play for promotion to nan Premier League.

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The plan, presented to clubs by nan Preston North End main executive, Peter Ridsdale, astatine a gathering past week, would adhd greater jeopardy to nan extremity of nan play and early feedback from Championship clubs has been favourable.

The proposal, first reported by nan Athletic, remains astatine an early stage. There is appetite from EFL to present nan connection crossed League One and League Two but astatine this shape only Championship clubs person been consulted. Football Association rules dictate changes to title formats require nan support of nan FA committee and nan Premier League.

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The erstwhile Crystal Palace, Wycombe and Bristol City main executive Phil Alexander, nan interim main executive of nan National League, antecedently unsuccessfully floated nan thought connected galore occasions.