By Alan Poole, Coventry Telegraph.
March 16 2015

...top-flight domestic league

Aviva Premiership bosses will hold "a positive debate" over increasing the league to 14 teams and imposing a temporary moratorium on promotion and relegation.

Premiership Rugby chief executive Mark McCafferty has confirmed that the English club body is "looking at" adding two teams to the top-flight domestic league.

Premiership Rugby completed a record four-year television rights deal extension with BT Sport, cementing broadcasting plans until 2021.

Chief executive McCafferty believes the lucrative new deal indicates English rugby's rapid growth, underscoring moves towards expanding the Premiership.

McCafferty confirmed Premiership Rugby will hold talks with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) over tentative plans to "expand the league carefully over two or three years without relegation".

"We are looking at that," McCafferty said.

"The game is growing significantly, and that rate of growth is such that we are looking at plans for expansion on a number of fronts.

"The size and competition of the league is one of them.

"We think it might be possible to develop the league in a way that includes one or two more clubs in terms of the competition.

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