THE WESSEX League has been granted permission by the FA to extend their league season, with a host of clubs suffering from a fixture pileup due to postponements.

Teams in the title race, such as Horndean, still have six league fixtures, which would have been staged in just 11 days.

In the Wessex Premier Division, side still involved in either the race for promotion or battle for relegation have until Tuesday, April 25, whilst fixtures between teams with no bearing on either end of the table have until Monday, May 1.

Inter-step play-offs between sides from the eighth tier and ninth tier runners-up will be staged on Saturday, April 29, although at the moment it appears that who ever finishes second in the Wessex Premier League will be automatically promoted due to a superior PPG (Points Per Game).

Teams in the Wessex Division One, the league’s second tier, all teams have until Monday, May 1, with the play-offs to be completed by the following week – Monday, May 8.

Unlike the Wessex Premier, the Division One play-offs will be contested between teams in the league finishing second, third, fourth and fifth.

Both divisions had been originally scheduled to end on Saturday, April 22, with numerous teams playing three times a week.