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Report: EFL planning on June 6 football resumption

The English Football League are making tentative plans to return to action on June 6, according to reports.

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Football throughout the UK is currently suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic, with no date having yet been set for a return.

However, ESPN is reporting the EFL are planning for the Championship, League One and League Two to return from June 6, with all games to be played behind closed doors.

The plan would involve a mini pre-season from May 16.

On Saturday, the Express & Star revealed Albion have made contact with another Championship club to arrange two friendlies before football returns.

One match will be played at The Hawthorns with the other at the home of the other team.

The games will be held to help players build up match fitness and to allow the clubs to get used to playing games behind closed doors.

Even without supporters in attendance, between 150 and 200 people will still be needed on a match day.

Any return would depend heavily on government advice as well as the status of the UK lockdown.

Meanwhile in Germany, football authorities have allowed Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 clubs to return to training ahead of a potential return to behind-closed-doors action in May.