Spl Clubs Agree On Expansion Plan

The Scottish Premier League (SPL) clubs have unanimously agreed to pursue their plan to expand to two divisions of 12 teams at a meeting at Hampden Park.

The SPL will now put forward their ’24-18′ proposition to the Scottish Football League (SFL) and the Scottish Football Association (SFA) on Thursday. Chief executive Neil Doncaster announced that all the clubs had agreed to the plan which will see the two leagues split into three leagues of eight, midway through the season. The 18 refers to those clubs that will not be included in the two top leagues.

Doncaster said of the agreement: ‘I’m delighted to say that we have unanimously agreement in principle from the 12 SPL clubs to the 24-18 team model. We are looking forward to sitting down with the Scottish Football League and the Scottish FA to talk about the details. What we aim to have is a consensus model that cares for all of Scottish football and that’s got to be objective. We understand that there needs to be a lot of redistribution from the biggest clubs and that is something the clubs in principle bought into today.’