Now just one Division 2 ticket in proposed combination of football league and championship

One of the proposals for a new-look championship has been tweaked

19 December 2020; Michael Darragh MacAuley of Dublin lifts the Sam Maguire Cup the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

There has been a change to the League-based All-Ireland SFC proposal whereby the top five teams from Division 1 and only the top Division 2 team progress directly to the All-Ireland quarter-finals. The original recommendation was that the top four in Division 1 and top two in Division 2 advance straight to the quarter-finals.

The proposal to move the National League to summertime and form the basis of the All-Ireland SFC, with the provincial championships retained as separate entities run off earlier in the season, is one of two options to reform the football championship that is due to be voted on at Congress next month.