We hope you and your families are keeping well and safe? Unfortunately we have just received the following communication from the league and wanted to provide you with the information.

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NCYFL league statement on 2020-21 Season and the current situation.

Dear All,

We hope you are all well and keeping safe.

Norfolk Combined Youth Football League feel that this is the right time for us to communicate to clubs and let you all know what our thoughts on the current situation and how we go forwards.

You will all know that there isn't a date for the lockdown to stop and even when it does, we don’t know what restrictions will still be in place. We have looked at how much football has been played across the age groups and how many fixtures are still left to be played.

Sadly, we know that it will not be possible to complete the league programme of fixtures, even if football could start in the next couple of weeks. We have decided that it is better to give clubs some certainty on what is going to happen. So, we have decided that the 2020-21 league fixtures are now null and void.

That said, when it is possible to play football again, we would like to finish the Kappa Cup & 4sports Trophy competitions for Under 12 to Under 18, as we think this is feasible. We will also look to run the trophy events for the Under 7 to Under 11's.

Teams in Under 12 to Under 18 that do want to play football when it is possible to do so, can still play games if the teams agree these between them, but the results won’t count towards a league competition.

We will not be using a points per game basis to finish league tables this season. We will roll over the divisions as they are for Under 12 to Under 18. If any team has had a change in circumstance, COVID-19 has impacted in a number of ways, and a team feels that they are not placed at an appropriate level can the club secretary please contact me. The league will consider all requests to move but can’t guarantee that we can make all changes that are requested. Under 11's going in to Under 12 we hope there will be an opportunity to play a trophy event that will help determine placings at Under 12.

Stay safe,

Regards

Karen Ward

League Secretary and Respect Officer

Norfolk Combined Youth Football League

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As a club we hope to return to training and arranging games as soon as we are advised by the government that they feel it is safe for us to do so as we feel it is important to children's mental wellbeing to be able to participate in sport.

We appreciate that this news will disappoint many of you but it is obviously out of our control. We will investigate what options we have and will provide a further update once we are in a position to do so.

Regards

Mike Sayers

Club Secretary.