Boreham Wood chairman offers clarification on National League season

The chairman was responding to a statement from the National League, sent to all clubs, which caused some confusion in non-league circles and seemed to suggest that the 2019-20 season was set to be cancelled.

It said the FA had been asked to assist them with “making the decisions to officially postpone all remaining National League fixtures and to end the season as soon as possible”.

It also said that “the broad consensus was that our clubs wish for a decision to be made to close the season as soon as possible”.

But Hunter said on the club’s website: “Basically the National League are saying, that it is shut down for now, but it does want to find any way possible to finish this season and they would in an ideal world, like to restart and finish this season’s league program between say June, July, August or even September of this year, government guidelines permitting.

“If the league were to get past that first hurdle, they would in simple terms want to go very quickly into the 2020/21 season. For that to be possible, it’s reasonable to expect that the 2020/21 league season would need to be extended into possibly May or even June 2021.

“However, the League are also saying to me, that whatever the English Football League decides in the coming weeks and months, our League would do its utmost to follow suit and align ourselves with them.