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Connor O'Neill

EFL make second announcement that affects Leeds United's Premier League promotion hopes

The EFL have this evening moved to clear up any confusion surrounding today's statement - and outline what happens next.

As revealed earlier today, the EFL have put forward their plan for how any season, unable to be finished, will be completed in the future, including this year if needs be.

That includes points per game to decide the table, a four-team play-off and relegation and automatic promotion staying as normal.

Approval of that plan will be written into the EFL's regulation for good, preventing any clubs from complaining or launching legal action in the future.

Clubs entering the EFL will have to sign up to these rules when registering this season and that plan will be voted on by all 71 clubs in the EFL’s three divisions with a majority of 51 percent needed (36 teams).

The plan will also need the approval of 51 percent of Championship teams (13 teams) to be approved, as the Championship carries more weight here than any other division, an spokesman told Coventry Live.

If the outcome of the vote is no, then talk will continue, but if close yes, then individual leagues will then be able to call a vote on whether to end their own division in the event such as the current pandemic.

That vote would also need a 51 percent majority to pass, so clubs like Coventry City now face two votes to decide if they will play their remaining games this season.

Both votes are set to be carried out next week and need a 51 percent majority in both along with a Championship majority in the first one to see the motions passed.

Failing that, clubs like Coventry in League One, will be forced to play on and to try and gain promotion on the pitch behind closed doors.

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