The EFL is considering lifting the 3pm blackout for Saturday matches from the 2024/25 season as they prepare to receive bids for their next set of television and media rights.
The EFL’s £595million five-year contract with Sky expires at the end of next season with complaints at the time from clubs within the league that the governing body had undervalued the competition.
Multiple reports now indicate that the EFL are considering new ways of broadcasting the competition, including removing restrictions on showing matches between 2:45pm and 5:15pm, a process that has been in place since the 1960s, although was lifted during the 2020/21 Covid-impacted campaign.
