The FA are reminding clubs to follow their current guidance for grassroots football, including the Toolstation NCEL, following the extension of Step 3 in the Government's roadmap out of COVID-19 lockdown.

The guidance, first provided last month, will now remain in place until 19th July, 2021, unless informed otherwise by the Government, and is as follows:

Spectators
From Step 3, spectators will be permitted to view events on both public and private land but need to adhere to social distancing rules and social gathering limits set at groups of 30 outdoors and six people/two households indoors.

Please note that multiple numbers of these group sizes are permitted as long as social distancing rules are followed.

Spectators are allowed indoors, but the total number of all participants, coaches, officials and spectators must comply with the ventilation rates permitted by the particular venue. You can find more information about this here.

At larger events, capacity limits for spectators, set by The Government will apply. For indoor events, this is 1,000 or 50% of capacity and, for outdoor events, this is 4,000 or 50% of capacity (whichever is lower in both cases).

Indoor Hospitality
As part of Step 3 of the Government’s roadmap out of lockdown, both outdoor and indoor hospitality at ‘non-elite’ football is permitted.

All participants must follow Government guidance on hospitality settings and specific advice for sport facility operators available on the Government’s website.

People using clubhouses and hospitality facilities must adhere to legal gathering limits and wider government guidance.

It is extremely important that clubs, players, coaches, match officials, league officials, volunteers, parents, carers, and facility providers continue to strictly follow both the UK Government's latest guidance on COVID-19 and respective bespoke guidance documents from The FA.

Any incidents of non-compliance should be reported to the local County Football Association.