According to recent media reports, the Sky Bet Championship Play-Offs are likely to be expanded to include six teams for the first time from next season.As first reported by Sky Sports News, representatives of all 72 EFL clubs will take part in an extraordinary general meeting on Thursday, 5th March, where they will take part in a vote to decide the new format.
Following an extensive consultation process, there is believed to be widespread support for the plans, despite some believing the quality of teams being promoted to the Premier League could suffer, as is could be possible for a team finishing eighth in the Championship to win promotion.
As already happens in the National League, the fifth-placed team would play the eighth-placed team, and the sixth-placed team would face the seventh-placed team in a one-off match at the higher-ranked team's home.
Then, the winners of those ties would then progress to face the clubs that finished third and fourth in the Semi-Finals, before the usual Play-Off final at Wembley Stadium.
There will not yet be a vote to replicate the new Play-Off format in League One and League Two, but Sky Sports News reports that, if Championship clubs do adopt the system, they're likely to follow suit in the next few years.
For the vote to be carried, it requires a majority of clubs in the Championship to agree thirteen of the twenty-four, and also a majority of the entire EFL clubs to vote in favour too thirty-seven of the seventy-two clubs.