Italy: "20 or 18 teams? Sooner or later we'll have to review our league's format" (G. Gravina, FIGC)

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Gabriele Gravina, president of the FIGC - ©  FIGC

"We need to get away from the single idea of the 20 or 18 teams that block the system. The clogged up fixture list is an important issue, which affects all of Italian football: sooner or later we'll have to review the format anyway. Germany has already done it (Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga with 18 teams), France will do it from the 2024-25...

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Gabriele Gravina, president of the FIGC - ©  FIGC

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