Inter Milan are among the big clubs who are pushing to reduce Serie A to eighteen or sixteen teams from twenty in the coming seasons.
This according to today’s print edition of Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, via FCInterNews.
This according to today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews. The Gazzetta report that March 11 will be the date for the potentially decisive meeting.
Since the 2004-05 season, there have been twenty teams playing in each Serie A season.
Prior to that, there had been eighteen.
The current format of the competition means that each team plays a total of 38 matches. Twice against each of the nineteen other teams in the division, home and away.
This is in line with the format of the Premier League, La Liga, and Ligue 1.
However, German top flight the Bundesliga contains just eighteen teams.
Inter Among Big Clubs Pushing To Reduce Serie A To 18 Or 16 Teams
Naturally there are some important advantages to having more teams in the league.
This gives two more teams an opportunity to compete in top flight football.
More variety in terms of the composition of the league, and great opportunities for “smaller” teams to compete can certainly lead to a more competitive and entertaining league.
But on the other hand, the contribution of the larger league to fixture congestion has increasingly become a problem.
Between multiple club and international competitions, many have observed a high level of stress on players’ fitness.
Inter CEO Beppe Marotta, to use one example, has noted this problem.
Teams in European knockout competitions are particularly hard-hit by this problem.
And that is why the bigger teams are the ones who would particularly favour a team.
Inter, who have been in the Champions League for several seasons, are among the leading voices in the charge, according to Il Sole 24 Ore.
