Chester FC will be playing Conference Premier football again next season after the Football Conference moved to expel Hereford United after failure to pay their football creditors and meet conditions placed upon them by the league.
The cash-strapped Bulls were given a deadline of 5pm last Thursday to pay football creditors, but missed that deadline. Following a meeting ahead of the Conference AGM last Saturday, the Bulls were given a further extension by the League.
They were required to have cleared funds to pay their creditors by yesterday, which appears to have not been forthcoming and the Conference has decided to expel the Edgar Street side.
A Conference statement read: "The Football Conference Ltd has issued the following statement concerning the membership of Hereford United (1939) Ltd, (Company Number 355272).
"The Club has confirmed it will not meet the requirements, to which it previously agreed, set by the Board of the Football Conference Ltd on Friday 6 June enabling the Club to retain its membership. As the Club was advised at the above meeting, the Board has exercised its unanimous decision that should the Club fail to fulfil the requirements it would be expelled from the Competition and the Company under Article 5.2.
"At the Annual General Meeting on 7 June of the Football Conference Ltd, the member Clubs agreed to an alternative Constitution for the 2014/15 season, in case of the above eventuality.
"Chester FC will now be reprieved from relegation from the Premier Division and Hayes & Yeading United FC will be reprieved from relegation from Conference South."
