Ousted From EFL, Bury Has No Right To Appeal

Bury, expelled from the Football League (EFL) on Tuesday after failing to provide guarantees about their finances, has no right of appeal against the decision, EFL Executive Chair Debbie Jevans said today.

Bury, with 125 years membership of the Football League, became the first team to be expelled since Maidstone in 1992 after a takeover bid fell through just before a deadline to satisfy the EFL about their future.

Reuters reports:

“There’s no appeal process. It is within people’s rights to write to us, we await any correspondence, should it arrive,” Jevans told reporters.

C&N Sporting Risk pulled out of its proposed takeover of the League One side just a few hours before the deadline to meet the league’s requirements saying the club’s finances were full of complications.

Bury, founded in 1885, is the first Football League club to be kicked out since Maidstone in 1992.

League One will now comprise 23 teams for the remainder of the season and the number of relegation places will be reduced to three instead of four.

Jevans said she was upset that the EFL had to expel Bury but added that the process was now completed.

“Devastated, no other word for it. I understand what I’ve heard the fans say. It’s very sad,” she said.

“But that decision was made, the share (in the EFL) has been revoked and is now with the EFL,” she added.

Jevans said the EFL, which had postponed five league games and kicked Bury out of the EFL Cup, had no choice after extending their deadline to work with C&N on a potential deal.

“I don’t honestly know what more we could have done,” she said.

 

Meanwhile, administrators running Bolton Wanderers have been given 14 days to either sell the club or prove they can fund them for the rest of the season, or that club too will be ousted from the EFL.