(Reuters) - England should scrap its League Cup in order to avoid fixture congestion, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has said.
English teams compete for both the FA Cup and the League Cup every season but the scheduling and format of the latter has come in for criticism, especially with two-legged semi-finals adding to a congested calendar.
"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," Ceferin said in an interview with The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/traditionalist-english-must-axe-league-cup-says-uefa-president-aleksander-ceferin-d3nm99cd0.
"But the problem is that, through that cup, you finance a lot of clubs that are quite disadvantaged," Ceferin added."So I understand the problem. The English are also quite traditionalist, you like things that have been there for ages."
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