Champions League may have 64 clubs & Europa League scrapped

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European football's governing body Uefa is considering ditching the Europa League in favour of extending the Champions League from 32 to 64 teams.

"We're discussing it. We will make a decision in 2014. Nothing is decided yet," Uefa president Michel Platini told French newspaper Ouest-France.

It means seven English clubs and five Scottish teams could qualify for European football's elite competition.

Uefa are looking at changing the format of European competitions from 2015.

"There is an ongoing debate to determine what form the European competitions will have between 2015 and 2018," added Platini.

The former France international said he was not worried by talk of Europe's richest clubs forming a competition to rival the Champions League.

"It's a question that is regularly brought up," he said.

"I can't see how it could work outside the Uefa framework. Who will referee them? In what stadiums will they play?"

BBC SPORT

[Vikingsfan88]

Hmm, interessting more clubs into the CL not the dumbest idea, but could take a bit more time and more games for clubs that already are in a long season. but Interessting

[Black Widow]

to be honest would you really want to put 5 scottish teams into the champions league they're shite apart from celtic that can just about handle group stages

[Vikingsfan88]

i think it would have been cool too see Motherwell, Inverness or Hibernian in the CL, better with those teams than the crap we have over her in Norway. Out leauge sucks so bad that shoudlen't even play in CL

[Kage]

Nooo. It's supposed to be an elite competition. Leave the scrub teams out.