Juventus, Inter Milan and AC Milan have reportedly proposed reducing the number of clubs in Serie A from 20 to 18.
The league's three most historically successful clubs have backed a plan initially proposed by Italian federation [FIGC] president Gabriele Gravina.
However, the majority of the other Serie A clubs are against the proposal.
Sky Sport Italia reported that Inter CEO Beppe Marotta plus Juventus general manager Maurizio Scanavino and director Francesco Calvo met Gravina at the federation's headquarters to discuss the matter.
Milan president Paolo Scaroni joined the meeting via video conference call.
The discussions over reducing the size of the top division in Italy come ahead of an extraordinary FIGC assembly on March 11 when a restructure will be debated.
Serie A expanded from 18 to 20 clubs ahead of the 2004-05 campaign and the big three argue that reducing it again would ease the packed fixture list and increase the quality of football on offer.
The German Bundesliga and French Ligue 1 have 18 clubs, while England's Premier League and LaLiga in Spain have 20.
Other Serie A clubs and the league itself will resist the big three and FIGC's proposals.
Inter currently top the table, four points ahead of Juventus, with Milan a further four back in third. There is then a 10-point gap to Atalanta in fourth position.
The currently bottom three in Serie A are Verona, Cagliari and Salernitana.
Prior to Napoli's Scudetto triumph last season, you had to go back to 2001 for the last time one of either Juventus, Inter or Milan didn't win the title.
Juventus have 36 championship wins overall, while Inter and Milan have 19 apiece.
Nickjonz11
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This is not convincing at all What kind of selfish interest is this 🤦🏽♂️🤡😏
This is literally what the Bundesliga has done. Cuts down on the amount of matches so players aren't hurt as often as well as the bad matchups of low quality vs high.
Wokacenz
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all of them should go to raligation and to make it easy for the serie A official
Lababidi
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The rich want to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Selfish Inter, Juve and Milan. Selfish because it any of them struggle to escape relegation at some point in time, they won't be supporting FA for that proposal. Incompetent farmers
any club has the right to represent its interests and defend it. those 3 clubs are responsible for proximity 80% of SerieA revenues so they do have the right to protect themselves and demand some changes.
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Maxmill
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This is not convincing at all What kind of selfish interest is this 🤦🏽♂️🤡😏
Bright1Isaac
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The rich want to get richer and the poor to get poorer. Selfish Inter, Juve and Milan. Selfish because it any of them struggle to escape relegation at some point in time, they won't be supporting FA for that proposal. Incompetent farmers