The FA Cup final in 2022 could be moved to June to accommodate an April/May World Cup in Qatar, under proposals that the European Club Association (ECA) will submit to Fifa next week.

The ECA, which consists of 214 members across 53 European countries, also suggests that players could report for the 2022 tournament as late as ten days before the tournament’s opening game, with the finals running from April 28 to May 29.

After nearly four years of controversy and debate over Fifa’s decision to stage the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the ECA chairman, told The Times on Wednesday that he believed bringing the tournament forward six weeks to late April represented a less “painful” solution than that of staging the