Chief executive Mark Bullingham aware of impending struggle‘We are having lots of conversations with stakeholders’The
Football Association is working with the
Premier League, EFL and the government to consider how help can be provided to clubs falling into financial crisis during the suspension of the sport due to the coronavirus pandemic, the FA’s chief executive, Mark Bullingham, has said.
In interviews after the teleconference of all Europe’s national football associations with Uefa, at which the decision was taken to postpone this summer’s European Championship and try to finish domestic football seasons by 30 June if at all possible, Bullingham said: “There are some clubs, particularly at the lower end of the pyramid, that are going to struggle … We are having lots of conversations with both government and other football stakeholders about that. From our point of view, we’re a not-for-profit [organisation]; clearly the money we raise goes back into the game, we are definitely going to take a big financial hit, and we will therefore be able to put less back into the game at all levels.”