The 2021/22 Toolstation NCEL season has been given a provisional start date of Saturday 31st July, 2021, hopefully ending a seven-month break.

It will be the earliest ever start to an NCEL campaign with all previous seasons - except last year's that was delayed until September - getting underway in August.

This will allow teams to play a league fixture before the FA Cup Extra Preliminary Round that takes place on Saturday 7th August, 2021.

For many of our clubs, it will be the first time that they will have been in competitive action since December due to the curtailment of Season 2020/21 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.