In July 2011 the Football League invited all Conference Premier League Clubs to submit an application to become a member of The Football League in preparation for potential promotion to League 2.

Fleetwood Town have become the first club to be promoted to The Football League this season.

For further information contact Andrea Brown: abrown@football-league.co.uk

The Red Tape Challenge puts a ‘spotlight’ on different areas of regulation. For each 'spotlight' theme, you are invited to submit your views. The Sports and Regulation Theme will remain until 31 May 2012.

Everyone can ‘join the debate’ on any of the live themes, and post their comments and thoughts on the regulation and rules that affect them. If you would like to get involved please click here.

The SGSA ran a series of seminars in spring 2011 designed to assist local authorities and clubs move from the traditional prescriptive style safety certificate to a more risk based approach.

If you would be interested in attending a future seminar could you please register your interest via our website.

International activity continues to keep us busy. In January and February we worked with UK Trade and Investment, the Football Association and others to co-ordinate inward visits from Brazilian and Russian delegations.

We co-ordinated a four day programme for seven visitors from Brazil, led by the President of the Maracana Stadium, which will host 7 world cup games in 2014 and the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Olympics.