European football maximum authority UEFA, established that they will consider awarding a place in the UEFA Champions League to Cup winners from 2009. The proposal could see the winner of each country's main triumph tournament included in a new end-of-season play-off system or even granted an automatic berth to Europe's elite club competition.

There are rumors of many other ideas such as this one that are being discussed in the UEFA headquarters, one of them is that the cup winners from countries with more than one qualifying team for the Champions League would go into the tournament. Ideas such as this will go before the UEFA’s new strategic council in June and a final decision will be taken in September.

It is still not something to be excited about for other countries since it would need the agreement of the clubs, leagues and national associations so if they support it, it will go forward or it might just disappear. A number of clubs have already expressed an interest in this situation.

UEFA's new strategic committee will have representatives from European's football governing body, the players' union FIFPro, the leagues and the clubs. It will also be asked to look at an idea put forward by UEFA president Michel Platini that would see the lowest qualifying teams from England, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and Portugal playing off against each other for three places in the group stage of the Champions League.

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