The leagues are being regularised across the board next year, in 2023 there will be 10 teams in each group, giving 9 games. This will still mean that you'll need 18 weeks to run off the league programme in order to get to a league final stage by Mid July. Hopefully in 2023 it'll be the beginning of March before leagues are needed to start but for 2022 I don't think clubs have any other choice.