Announcement on the return of soccer matches

Final weekend, English soccer united collectively to honour and bear in mind Her Majesty the Queen.

We wish to specific our thanks and gratitude to everybody throughout our sport for his or her assist and understanding as we paid respect to our long-standing Patron of The Soccer Affiliation, Queen Elizabeth II.

After a interval of pause and reflection for our nationwide sport, we are able to verify that fixtures will resume as scheduled, together with matches from the Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League and Barclays Ladies’s Championship, the Emirates FA Cup Second Spherical Qualifying, Vitality Ladies’s FA Cup, the Nationwide League System [NLS], Steps 1-6, together with the Vanarama Nationwide Leagues, the Ladies’s Soccer Pyramid [WFP], Tiers 3-7, and all matches throughout grassroots soccer in England. Isuzu FA Trophy and FA Youth Cup matches will return this night.

All matches held at stadiums are topic to leagues and golf equipment working with the related authorities to stage these fixtures, as standard apply.

We will probably be recommending to golf equipment, leagues and competitions throughout the nation {that a} minute’s silence is noticed earlier than matches are performed, and that black armbands needs to be worn the place attainable. All flags at Wembley Stadium and St. George’s Park will proceed to fly at half-mast this week and over the weekend.

The FA also can verify that every one scheduled soccer matches will probably be postponed on the day of Her Majesty the Queen’s funeral on Monday 19 September.

Our ideas at the moment stay with His Majesty King Charles III, our president, HRH The Prince of Wales, and the entire of the Royal Household.

Play Protected Weekend 17-18 September 2022

Thanks for all your collective efforts relating to the deliberate Play Protected Weekend.

This can now be postponed as we perceive that golf equipment and leagues could want to concentrate on paying their respects as soccer resumes this week.

Re-scheduled dates for this vital marketing campaign will probably be agreed with stakeholders, and we are going to talk them as quickly as attainable.