Scarborough Athletic's chairman says the club needs both sponsors and fans to help support the club with its planned return to the town next season.
The club have been playing at Bridlington Town's Mounting Systems Stadium since problems were found under the pitch surface at their Scarborough Sports Village home.
Work started on Tuesday at Scarborough Sports Village to make structural improvements in time for the club to return to the venue for the 2026/27 football season, whether that's in National North or as they hope, the National League- the top non-League level of football.
Boro are currently level on points with fifth-placed Radcliffe in the penultimate play-off place in National North.
Chairman Trevor Bull says there is work to do, ahead of the planned return to the sports village next season, which ensure the fans and sponsors continue to engage with the club.
"We are starting to plan for next season because we've got to try and get all our sponsors back on board because there's quite a lot of sponsors left us because they didn't or couldn't see the value of supporters when we were in Bridlington. We've got to try and re-engage with them and we've got to re-engage with the public of Scarborough because we've got maybe 7-800 people that used to go on a Saturday down to the Sports Village that aren't going to Bridlington and we need to give them plenty of reasons to start going again. I don't want to put too much pressure on Jono, but I will be reminding him that last time we came back to Scarborough, we got promoted in our first season."
Trevor says balancing the books is crucial in the meantime:
"We need to come back to Scarborough in a fit and healthy condition to give it a real good go again and just generate that interest in, in, in football that we've lost. Because we've a situation at the moment where. There's a lot of people, it's not through choice. They just can't get through to Bridlington. A lot of the youngsters that would go down to the ground on their own, they can't get through to Bridlington.
Some of the elderly have found it particularly difficult and certainly our disabled supporters have found it incredibly different, difficult to get through there and many of them have had to write this season off already, so we've gotta get back to the town so those people can enjoy the football again."
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