Ebbsfleet

Ebbsfleet United face an anxious wait to see whether they are to be relegated.

If the play-offs in National League North and South take place, then they would be facing relegation after finishing the season third bottom in the National League on a points per game calculation.

King’s Lynn Town (National League North) and Wealdstone (National League South) have both been promoted automatically to the National League. A second team can only be promoted through a play-off campaign, according to the league’s current rules, as opposed to an additional automatic place.

If the play-offs are played, and that’s the current plan, the Fleet will almost certainly go down. If there are no play-offs then the league could propose another amendment to the rules, promoting a second team automatically.

But right now, Fleet have no clear idea of what will happen. Fleet chief executive Damian Irvine said: “The club continues to seek further clarity from the National League in terms of what league we will be in next year. “The resolution (which clubs voted through) is relatively unchanged from last week, the difference being last week the intent was not to play the play-offs in South and North, whereas this week’s resolution has clearly changed to trying to play them.”

Fleet dropped a place to third from bottom in the National League on an unweighted points per game mathematical basis dropping below Maidenhead. The difference on PPG was 49.632 to Fleet’s 49.538.