Huge EFL rule change hit by MAJOR setback with request for a vote rejected and ‘no commitment made’

The EFL are acceptable to a cull a petition from the National League to perpetrate to a ballot connected granting them 3 promotion places.

SunSport has learned that the substance was discussed astatine an EFL Board gathering yesterday. 

The Board concluded that the promotion and relegation contented should beryllium passed to the clubs for talks astatine their divisional meetings aboriginal this month, with nary committedness made to ballot astatine the extremity of the season.

The National League wrote to the EFL earlier this week requesting a vote astatine their summertime AGM truthful the caller promotion and relegation exemplary could beryllium introduced adjacent season. 

In summation the National League person launched a nationalist 3UP campaign, but person been incapable to unafraid immoderate committedness from the EFL astatine this stage.

The EFL declined to comment, and are readying to constitute to the National League to explicate their presumption successful detail.

Any regularisation alteration requires a bulk ballot from the 72 EFL clubs, including a bulk of the 24 successful the Championship.

The EFL are expected to acceptable retired their concerns to the clubs aboriginal this month, including the information that National League clubs are not taxable to the aforesaid outgo power rules.

Agreeing the aforesaid spending rules is viewed by galore arsenic indispensable earlier three-up three-down tin beryllium introduced, and that volition not hap earlier the extremity of the season.

EFL bosses person antecedently spoken positively astir the thought but a power would request the ceremonial backing of the clubs.

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National League president Jack Pearce suggested the likely accomplishment of the Government’s caller Independent Football Regulator this summertime meant that the EFL had to respond.

Pearce said: “The Regulator’s stated objectives see providing fiscal sustainability, economical resilience and preserving the practice of the sport.

“In presumption of heritage, National League clubs are astatine the bosom of towns and cities crossed the full country, with clubs that are portion of the cloth of their communities.

“An other promotion spot would make an invaluable aspiration for each these clubs and supporters - positive clubs successful the leagues below. We simply can’t hold immoderate longer for parity wrong the game.”

Pearce argues that 3 clubs switching each play would make a “fluid” pyramid portion besides providing greater accidental for relegated clubs to “bounce back” into the EFL.