National League 19/20 Finished

Quoted from Ipswin

Presumably and I hope its Barrow - proper football club out of the FL far too long, no more Johnny-come-lately plastic outfits please

Have Bury been wound up? If the season is null and void is them being thrown out also null and void?

Decision not going down too well, which is understandable.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52069879

Quoted from kamakazebear

But are any of the teams they were ready to replace mathematically certain of being relegated? There's going to be winners and losers whatever they decide happens and they're going to be criticised regardless. Dont envy whoever has to make this decision at all.

Non-League was due to restructure and there was no direct relegation from any of the 7 step 4 leagues this season

Bury need replacing (1 extra club)
National League North & South were to expand to 24 teams each (4 extra clubs)
An 8th league added at step 4 (20 extra clubs)

So the plan was that there would be 24 more clubs promoted from step 5 than relegated from step 4. The plan was 24 clubs would be promoted automatically (all 14 step 5 champions, 2nd & 3rd in the 3 most northern step 5 leagues & the 4 best 2nd placed teams from the other 11 step 5 divisions) and the remaining 7 2nd place teams at step 5 would play-off with the 7 teams finishing bottom of the step 4 leagues to decide the final 7 places at step 4 from 2020/21. And Bury would need replacing if they aren't readmitted and step 4 or higher (which they won't be).

It's a mess and you can understand why so many clubs are furious. Why void this season so early?

So the National League is voided. What do the EFL do about a 92nd club? If this season is voided then the obvious option would be to reprieve the club who finished 23rd in League Two in 2018/19 season (Notts County). Obviously Stevenage (or whoever finishes bottom this season) will also be reprieved & stay in League Two.

National League and Leagues North and South now suspended indefinitely with them looking into the best way to conclude the season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52092442

I can't even begin to think how you sort this whole mess out.

If the muted Premier League festival goes ahead that's great, it'll sort out the top flight.  But what about everything underneath it?  With each tier you go down into it'll get harder and harder to complete the leagues.

I've got a feeling that the Premier League will be completed to sort out the Champions League/Europa League places more than anything else, no relegation or promotion across all leagues.  Very much a reset of where we were at the start of the 19/20 season.

Issue of Bury is a headache in itself.  If you reprieve someone like Notts County, you're then faced with replacing them in the Conference with someone and then so on and so on.  Added to this, there's then a very realistic chance that clubs already circling the plughole like Macclesfield probably won't last either...

My initial thoughts are that at our level, plus considering the fact that we're going to take a long time to recover on an economic level, this may be an opportunity to restructure the lower leagues.  I've given this no real thought other than it just popping into my head but maybe three regional tiers below the Championship.  Appreciate that you've then potentially got the likes of Sunderland in the same league as Chorley.  

I'm in favour of Barrow being given a League 2 spot, especially if it means Stevenage getting relegated.

If the Leagues don't get finished by playing all remaining games at some point in the future, then no matter what decisions are reached, there will be some who are not happy with the outcome- it's inevitable. There is no easy way of concluding this to the satisfaction of all concerned.

Quoted from ginnywings

I'm in favour of Barrow being given a League 2 spot, especially if it means Stevenage getting relegated.

If the Leagues don't get finished by playing all remaining games at some point in the future, then no matter what decisions are reached, there will be some who are not happy with the outcome- it's inevitable. There is no easy way of concluding this to the satisfaction of all concerned.

They're going to need to replace Bury still I would think so they could bring Barrow into the league without relegating any team,