A radical plan to truncate the Champions League with both semi-finals and the final played over a four-day period in the Turkish capital Istanbul is to be discussed by Uefa amid the enveloping coronavirus pandemic. If agreed, the same would apply to the Europa League where the final is due to take place in the Polish city of Gdansk.

Another idea under consideration is to condense all the games, including the quarter-finals and semi-finals, which would normally be over two-legs, home and away, into one-off matches to crammed into one week. The ideas are part of a series of proposals to be put forward during emergency videoconference meetings on Tuesday to discuss how to cope with the outbreak.

The other main topic on the agenda will be the suspension of Euro 2020, which appears inevitable, to December, as revealed by Telegraph Sport, or next summer. Gabriele Gravina, the president of the Italian Football Federation, has publically declared that he will be calling for the finals to be postponed. “We will propose to Uefa the delay of the European Championship,” Gravina told the SportMediaset television channel. “We will try and get to the end of this (domestic) championship because it is fairer and more correct after the many investments and sacrifices of our clubs,” he added. Italy are one of the Euro 2020 hosts with fixtures including the opening game in Rome where they are due to play Turkey.

Whatever is decided during the conference calls will significantly influence a meeting of the Premier League clubs on Thursday to discuss how they try and cope with the crisis and manage the season after football was suspended in England until, initially, April 3.

A number of alternatives will be discussed and they will include declaring the season void – although, as Telegraph Sport revealed on Saturday, that may not preclude Liverpool being declared champions given their commanding lead. As one club chairman said it was the “least of the worries right now”. It is possible that there could be an enlarged Premier League for one season, with no relegation, and Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion promoted. The issue of who qualifies for Europe would also have to be decided.

There is a general feeling, however, that completing domestic campaigns should take absolute priority over international tournaments although several senior figures among Premier League clubs have expressed the opinion that it is unlikely the leagues will re-start in any case.

That view is shared by FA chairman Greg Clarke and one which he expressed to the clubs and the Premier League on Friday when the suspension was announced within hours of Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta testing positive. The Premier League however, remains hopeful that it can resume the fixtures with games played behind-closed-doors until the situation improve.

The discussions on Tuesday will be led by Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin and will involve the 55 member associations together with separate calls to the boards of the European Club Association and the various European leagues and a representative of FifPro, the world players union. An announcement is expected afterwards.

Uefa’s director of competitions, Giorgio Marchetti, will put forward the options for the Champions League and Europa League which will also have to include the possibility of abandoning the competitions for this season.

An intriguing option is to follow what is called the ‘Final Four’ model which is effectively used in the Uefa Nations League – where last summer England faced Holland and Portugal played Switzerland before a final between Portugal and Holland in Lisbon. It is a format that is also used in the Basketball Champions League.