European cups reform: "The real deadline is 2022; it is UEFA that will decide" (A. Agnelli, ECA)

"We know we have to find a solution by 2022. The real deadline is 2022. We have no power. Formally, it is the UEFA Executive Committee that will propose and decide," said Andrea Agnelli (ITA), chairman of the ECA, about the reform of the European cups for the 2024-2027 period, in Geneva (SUI), on 10/09/2019.

The president of Juventus FC (Serie A TIM) spoke after being re-elected chairman of the ECA for the 2019-2023 cycle by the new executive board of the body, at the end of its 23^rd General Assembly organized on 09 and 10/09/2019.

"The meeting (between UEFA-ECA-European Leagues) on this issue on 11/09/2019 has been postponed, which we think is for the best. I believe UEFA has confirmed that no final decisions about the post 2024 competition format will be made in 2019," said Lars-Christer Olsson (SWE), chairman of European Leagues, on 06/09/2019.

"The subject of the (European cup) reform will be reviewed by UEFA at the end of 2020 or in the first half of 2021," said Florence Hardouin (FRA), a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, in a letter sent a few days earlier to French…