Eight football league clubs have been saved from administration by emergency loan payments from the EFL this week, but another 20 could go bust before Christmas.
As revealed by Sportsmail, the EFL introduced a £50 million emergency loan scheme for stricken clubs after it failed to strike a bail-out deal with the Premier League and with no prospect of direct financial support from Government.
EFL clubs are hugely dependent on matchday income, which ranges from a quarter to a third of all revenue in the different divisions, and they have been crippled by the coronavirus restrictions, which ban fans from stadiums.