ECA: "A process to develop a vision for the future of UEFA Club Competitions post-2024" (A. Agnelli)

"We have now launched the process to develop a vision for the future of UEFA Club Competitions post-2024 (2024-2027 cycle). This is the start of a journey that will see further and deep engagement with all professional game stakeholders, prior to reaching any formal decisions," said the ECA chairman Andrea Agnelli, to representatives of 164 European clubs at the General Assembly in Amsterdam (NED) on 26/03/2019.

An "informal brainstorming session to exchange views and ideas around UEFA club competitions post-2024" took place between the UEFA Executive Committee and ECA Executive Board at "The House of European Football" UEFA's headquarters in Nyon (SUI) on Tuesday 19/03/2019. On the eve of the UEFA - ECA meeting, the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal had announced that top European clubs were "due to hold a secret meeting with UEFA to discuss potentially radical changes to the format of the Champions League" with a "relegation system (four promotions and four relegations) and moving games to weekends (from the quarter-finals) as early as 2021."

"We have repeatedly…