Wednesday 14 September 2016 21:24, UK
The Football Association is hopeful there will be a Team GB presence in the Olympic Games football tournaments at Tokyo 2020.
The prospect of Team GB returning to Olympic competition was discussed by the Home Nations before the UEFA congress in Athens on Wednesday.
The chairmen and chief executives of the four British football associations met for what new Football Association chairman Greg Clarke described as "four equal countries having a discussion".
And Clarke said they will continue to discuss the matter annually after years of not talking to each other, for reasons he said nobody could remember.
Team GB fielded Olympic football teams at London 2012 for the first time in more than five decades but no attempt was made to repeat the experiment for Rio.
The Football Association of Wales, Irish Football Association and Scottish Football Association worried that any move to play as a unified team could tempt FIFA to reconsider their independent status.
But FA chief executive Martin Glenn believes that is no longer a concern.
"FIFA has indicated that it's not a problem," said Glenn shortly after the vote to elect Aleksander Ceferin as UEFA president.
"The big fear in the past was that if we did it we would jeopardise our independent country status. But that was sorted out under [former FIFA president Sepp] Blatter actually and [new president] Gianni Infantino has reinforced it.
"So that's not the issue. The issue is the individual interests of each Home Nation.
"There's a Great Britain interest, of which we're all part, but does it suit the individual interest of [each] Home Nation? And that's what we're going to work through."
