Premier League clubs are unanimously against FIFA's idea for a biennial guys's World Cup.
While the idea of a World Cup every two years were tentatively mentioned inside the beyond, it received traction in July whilst former Arsenal supervisor Arsene Wenger – now FIFA's head of world football development – publicly backed the capability exchange.
FIFA started out wearing out a feasibility observe and Wenger insisted a biennial World Cup "is what the enthusiasts need", but the proposals have been met with massive grievance.
UEFA officers had been in particular vocal in their opposition, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) expressed issues, and players and managers have largely questioned the know-how of such an alteration to the soccer calendar.
The Premier League has now lent its collective voice to the verbal exchange, denouncing FIFA's proposals – which additionally encompassed the extension of international windows – because of subject for player welfare and home football.
A Premier League statement showed not one of the 20 Premier League clubs were in favour of a World Cup each years, whilst CEO Richard Masters stated: "The Premier League is dedicated to stopping any radical modifications to the publish-2024 FIFA International Match Calendar that could adversely affect player welfare and threaten the competitiveness, calendar, systems and traditions of home soccer.
"We are open to reforms and new thoughts, however they should enhance the complementary stability among domestic and global soccer if you want to improve the sport in any respect levels.
"This method need to additionally involve meaningful agreements with the leagues that provide the principles for the sport.
"We will continue to work with supporter businesses, gamers, domestic and global stakeholders to discover answers which can be in the high-quality hobbies of football's long-time period destiny."
