League One and League Two salary cap scrapped after appeal by players' union

09-Feb-2021 14:54:59 | The Guardian

Clubs voted in £2.5m and £1.5m restrictions six months ago
League to hold talks with PFA over cost-saving solution

The English Football League plans to negotiate a cost-saving solution with the players’ union after being forced to abandon its controversial salary cap in League One and League Two.

An independent arbitration panel ruled the cap must be withdrawn after the Professional Footballers’ Association argued it was “unlawful and unenforceable”. Clubs voted in August to implement caps, set at £1.5m in League Two and £2.5m in League One, but will revert to rules that link player-related expenditure to turnover, under which Bury went bust. Clubs, who will meet on Thursday, had agreed to squad limits but those measures have also been withdrawn.