The 2019-20 English Football League season could resume as early as June 6 if conditions in the country permit, Forest Green chairman Dale Vince has said.
The bodies in charge of professional football in England are continuing talks on how the game can safely resume amid the coronavirus pandemic, with Premier League clubs due to be briefed on various aspects of its 'Project Restart' at a meeting on Friday.
A return to action in June is the target, and Vince told the PA news agency: "June 6 tallies with what I think. I don't think it's going to happen before that and it might still be optimistic to think it happens on that day.
The Premier League's medical adviser Mark Gillett, along with the Football Association's head of medicine Charlotte Cowie, is understood to be part of a group of medical officials from sports governing bodies who will meet on a weekly basis with representatives from Public Health England, in talks led by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
English professional football has been suspended since March 13, with the Premier League and the English Football League keeping a restart date under "constant review".
