The League Cup (Carabao Cup) will not change the format and retain the round-trip semi-finals for next season, the English Football League (EFL), which governs the Second to the Fourth Division and the organizer of the competition, confirmed this Wednesday .
Deal with the Premier?
The EFL, however, is willing to change the format in the future if it reaches an agreement with Premier League so that it allocates more funds to the lower divisions.
The need to reduce the number of games played in Carabao Cup It was born not only because of the increasingly crowded calendar that the players have to deal with, but also because the expansion of the Champions League to 36 teams next season will mean three of the weeks in which the League Cup is played. conquered by European competition.
Since 1961, the year of the League Cup’s birth, the semi-finals have been played round-trip, as was the case this year in Middlesbrough and Chelsea and Fulham and Liverpool.
“The EFL is committed to a review of the calendar, but these changes cannot be made unilaterally and will require significant compensation from the Premier League and its clubs,” he said. Trevor BirchEFL chief executive.
Source: La Verdad
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