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Norwich City says relegation from the Premier League should be eliminated if the first flight completes its season but the Championship does not.
Premier League clubs met on Monday to continue talks on ‘Project Restart’, but the removal of the relegation has not yet been discussed.
The league aims to return before June 12, with the Canaries at the bottom of the table and six safety points.
Championship clubs will meet on Wednesday after an EFL board meeting.
“What we could not accept is a situation where we play all of our games and relegate ourselves, but the Championship cannot play and is automatically promoted by some teams that have not finished the season,” Norwich sporting director Stuart Webber told Sky Sports. .
“For anyone who has been promoted from the Championship, it is a slog of 46 or 49 games. It must establish itself on the field, both going up and going down.”
Analysis
Simon Stone of BBC Sport
This scenario has been talked about privately for a while and explains why there will be a divergence between the EFL and the Championship’s lower leagues in terms of when the 2019-20 season ends.
The Football Association has already said it expects teams to be relegated and promoted to the top two leagues and will use their participation in the system to ensure that it happens.
However, any Premier League club that is replaced by a team that has not completed its season is required to consider legal action.
Aside from a dispute over the rights and mistakes of such a move, logistically, falling clubs would have a big problem.
They could be forced to switch in a short space of time from one season to the next and face a number of opponents who have not played a competitive game for months.
