Why are we talking about this now?

Published2 April 2025

Updated 56 minutes ago

It's been a while, but league reconstruction is now back on the agenda in Scottish football.

The blissful accord of the last decade of so has again been disrupted by talk of 10-team top flights, voting structures and money distribution.

Earlier this month, the SPFL Competitions Working Group commissioned a review of restructuring options, from maintaining the status quo to altering the make-up of all four top-flight divisions.

The Working Group meets on 29 April to discuss those options, so why are they talking about this and what happens now?

While the Scottish game has been reasonably stable in its set up for more than a decade, the same cannot be…