Richard Scudamore has insisted the Premier League will “pull out all the stops” to resist any attempt to play Champions League matches at weekends or introduce guaranteed places for bigger clubs.

Both ideas have been floated as ideas to revamp the competition from 18-19 onwards and prevent a breakaway competition among bigger clubs.

In light of the increase in viewers and profile sparked by moving the final to Saturday one idea being mooted is to move some Champions League matches to weekends during the later rounds.

Another idea would be base a side's record over three seasons as a factor for qualification, which makes it less likely usual clubs would miss out.

Scudamore said the Premier League would strongly resist any such suggestion.

“If you land in the first four places, you are in the Champions League and it is as simple as that. The idea you might average the qualification over a number of years just seems completely ridiculous.”

Given the Premier League’s new £8.3 billion TV deal, much of the pressure for changes to European competition has come from clubs in Spain and Italy.