March 10 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has advised English football authorities to scrap the League Cup competition, which has been in existence since 1960, to avoid fixture congestion.
Unlike the rest of Europe, English teams compete for two domestic cup competitions though many of them field weakened sides.
Liverpool recently even played their Under-23 team in this season’s League Cup quarter-finals as the seniors had to fly to Qatar for the Club World Cup.
In September the French football authorities agreed to scrap their League Cup from next season after they failed to secure a broadcaster for the 2020-2024 period. Ceferin says that England should follow suit and ditch their secondary domestic cup competition.
He told the Times newspaper: “The League Cup is off in France already. Only England remains. I think that everybody knows that it would be better for everyone if that were not played any more.”
“But the problem is that, through that cup, you finance a lot of clubs that are quite disadvantaged. So I understand the problem. The English are also quite traditionalist, you like things that have been there for ages.”
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