National League bosses launch bid to get extra promotion place to the EFL

All 72 National League clubs are supporting a missive to the EFL asking for a alteration successful the regulations allowing 3 promotion places to League Two alternatively than the existing two

National League bosses person launched a “three-up” run to get an other promotion spot to the EFL.

All 72 National League clubs are supporting a missive to the EFL asking for a alteration successful the regulations allowing 3 promotion places to League Two alternatively than the existing two.

It marks the commencement of a caller 3UP run which the National League says volition unafraid the aboriginal of the English shot pyramid and besides trim the feeling that the EFL is becoming a closed shop.

They privation the alteration to beryllium brought successful for the commencement of the 2025/26 play and the run has been rubber stamped astatine an Extraordinary General Meeting of each the clubs which includes celebrated names similar Oldham, Altrincham, Southend and Hartlepool.

National League Chair Jack Pearce said: “This summer, the Independent Football Regulator is scheduled to beryllium introduced. Their wide 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. The bulk of these clubs are implicit a period aged and portion of the cloth of their communities.

“An other promotion spot for these Clubs into the EFL 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.

“As good arsenic accrued fiscal stability, 3UP would mean a fluid shot pyramid wherever teams tin triumph promotion from the bottommost to the apical fairly. It volition springiness much accidental to clubs relegated from EFL League 2 to ‘bounce back’.

“Whilst we recognise and respect the EFL’s verbal enactment for the National League connected 3 promotions, our clubs person present made it abundantly wide that they spot nary crushed for a further hold connected the authoritative process.

“Rick Parry, the EFL Chair, has often said that ‘the EFL should look down arsenic good arsenic up’ truthful we’d present similar that to really happen.”

Pearce wants the alteration to beryllium made arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to guarantee that it is past not enactment connected the backmost burner arsenic the EFL tries to thrash retired agreements with the Premier League earlier the regulator - who volition not person a accidental connected promotion and relegation - is brought in.

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