The French League of Professional Football (LFP) directors are determined to increase the number of goals scored in the first and second divisions and have suggested rewarding high-scoring teams with cash prizes.

Reports say a ghost table will run alongside the actual league standings next season.

In the ghost table, teams who win by more than one goal would be given three points, while two go to a team winning by a single goal, and one for a draw.

The ghost table will then be published alongside the actual league table at the end of each week.

At the end of the season, the team in each division that wins the ghost championship will be given a cash prize.

In the first division the winner will receive 2.4 million euros (3.06 million dollars) and in the second the prize will be 542,348 euros (692,000 dollars).

Former France manager Michel Hidalgo, who led his country to victory at the 1984 European Championships, recommended the idea in a report.