THE SPFL will await further details regarding the Qatar World Cup before considering how the 2022 tournament will impact on Scottish football.

But there are fears three domestic campaigns could have to be altered to make room for the showpiece event in the Middle East.

It was confirmed yesterday that the competition is set to be switched from its usual summer date to a berth in November and December.

The controversial call leaves more questions than answers, and presents a huge headache for the Hampden hierarchy over how to fit the domestic schedule around the biggest few weeks in the game.

A recent statement from the European Professional Football League warned that clubs had 'expressed their disagreement with respect to this proposal which will perturb and cause great damage to the normal running of the European domestic competitions'

An SPFL spokesman told SportTimes: "The SPFL will await the final decision on scheduling for the 2022 World Cup before we consider the implications for fixturing. Clearly, in seven years' time, we all hope that Scotland's participation is part of the equation.

"We are fully engaged in these discussions, through our membership of the Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) and Neil Doncaster's position as a Board member of the EPFL.

"The EPFL has recently issued a statement on the issue and we support and agree with this statement in its entirety."

It is anticipated that the first disruption to the domestic calendar would emerge in the 2021-22 season, come to a head in 2022-23, and perhaps even still trickle through into the 2023-24 campaign.

Our teams will likely have to start playing a couple of weeks earlier in the summer and finish later in the year, or find a way to pencil in more midweek fixtures as well as cup games and European commitments.

The decision to hand Qatar the World Cup has caused consternation for some time, and FA chairman Greg Dyke said: "The best option would be to not hold it in Qatar, but we are now beyond that, so November/December would seem to be the best of the bad options.

"It will clearly disrupt the whole football calendar as it means club football stopping at the end of October."