Uefa have drawn up a number of scenarios to restructure the football calendar

Uefa is drawing up plans to finish this season in August and have shortened competitions next season in order to minimise the devastating effect of the coronavirus on European football.

The scenario is one of the plans being worked on by Uefa’s emergency working group looking at restructuring the calendar once the full effect of the pandemic is known.

Uefa’s decision to postpone Euro 2020 for a year will cost the organisation hundreds of millions of pounds, and it has been calculated that cancelling this season before the finish would cost both the European governing body and domestic competitions billions in lost TV revenue — £750 million for the Premier League alone.

Aleksander Ceferin, the Uefa president, has confirmed it would be possible to wait