Scottish Premier League to introduce play-offs as reconstruction plans are finally agreed The proposals, which are still to be put to the Scottish Football League, would ensure a 12-10-10-10 system with the 11th-placed team in the top flight involved in four-team play-offs at the end of the season. Two SPL clubs, Ross County and St Mirren, last month vetoed a similar plan on the basis that they were unconvinced by the merits of a system to split the top two divisions into three after 22 games. This facet has now been dropped. The proposals include "a single merged league of 42 clubs, in line with the stated preference of SFL1 clubs; a 12-10-10-10 divisional structure; an all-through distribution model involving substantial redistribution to the second tier; a 'pyramid' for the entire game; play-offs involving team 11 in the SPL and teams 2, 3 and 4 in the division below." The SPL looks forward to working with the Scottish FA and Scottish Football League to deliver vibrant change for the game as a whole. Chairman Ralph Topping added: "I am pleased that SPL clubs have today agreed on a way forward for the game in this country. We have tremendous sympathy with the SFL1 clubs and their plight and with their shared ambition for a 42-club solution. Much work needs to be done in a short space of time to achieve our objective of a single merged league this summer. But, where there is a will, there is a way. The time for action is now.