Spl To Consider Complete Overhaul
Radical plans to change the Scottish Premier League to a two-tier format of ten teams will be presented by the SPL’s Strategic Working Group.
Part of the complete overhaul to the league would be the introduction of a winter break as well as a play-off system.
The leagues beneath the top two would also be regionalised and the final details of the plan will be presented to all 12 SPL clubs at a meeting on 20th December.
The changes could be implemented as early as next season but the 2012/13 campaign is viewed as being a more realistic timeframe.
The working group includes SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster, chairman Ralph Topping and representatives of Rangers, Celtic, Hibernian, Motherwell and St Mirren.
Between the two ten-team SPL leagues there would be an automatic one promotion and one relegation, but play-offs would also take place between the ninth-placed team in the top flight and the second-, third- and fourth-placed teams in the second tier.
