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As we hit full flow on the 2022/23 season, we are delighted to be sponsored once again by Rugby-based, family-run heating and plumbing specialists Custom Heat. 

After initially sponsoring Leamington F.C. just as the pandemic hit, we have another chance to partner with Custom Heat this season, as we expect to welcome incredible crowds throughout the year.

With heating and utilities a major factor in the rising cost of living, Custom Heat continues to offer affordable and highly cost effective care plans and servicing, to keep your boiler in tip top condition as the football season plunges us into the colder months. 

You’ll see their logo and board around the ground and in our programme, and we look forward to welcoming several of their growing local engineering workforce along to support the Brakes this season. 

Lincoln Smith, Managing Director, said “We’re all about supporting local, and Leamington F.C. is at the heart of this community and we’re excited to be there for the 2022/2023 season.”

We continue to look for sponsors to support a range of initiatives at the club, and Custom heat join a growing line up of local, regional and national businesses all helping to keep this incredible club going. 

There are lots of other ways you can support, including the Brakes lottery and shopping via the smile.amazon.co.uk site.

The National League has been in discussions with BT Sport on the timing restriction on Clubs placing their highlights online and the difficulties this can cause some Clubs.

Yesterday BT Sport confirmed they are in agreement for the restriction to be amended so that Clubs can upload their highlights immediately following the BT Sport National League highlights show, rather than the current restriction.

Whilst the timing of the BT Sport highlights show may vary – they are typically scheduled at 10pm, finishing at 10.30pm, with this being the case for the forthcoming weeks.

Should there be any amends to the timings we will ensure they are sent to the Clubs.

Should there not be a weekend highlights show, highlights cannot be uploaded until after the blackout in accordance with Article 48.

In relation to midweek highlights, these can be shown immediately following the completion of the game.

This amendment is effective immediately and the League are grateful to BT Sport for this concession.

Brakes are set to host AFC Telford United in the Second Qualifying Round of the FA Youth Cup.

The tie will take place at Your Co-op Community Stadium on Wednesday 28 September with a 7:30pm kick off. Entry will be £3 adults and £1 concessions.

The Board of the National League is pleased to provide an update on streaming following a meeting of the Board on 15th September.

The current broadcast rights, which includes streaming, are currently held by our broadcast partner BT Sport.

We have been working closely with them over the past few months to secure an agreement whereby non televised matches could be streamed on a League platform, also respecting the need to comply with Article 48 restrictions.

BT Sport have been incredibly supportive in this vision, for which we are extremely grateful. Following Board approval, we will now be progressing matters to contractually cement that position.

After several months of considering the options and appropriate due diligence the Board were presented with a detailed report which, having received proposals from a number of potential partners including market leaders and which also included speaking with organisations who have successful experience in streaming, a series of recommendations were made.

The Board unanimously approved all recommendations and have tasked the Commercial Committee to immediately progress this work, finalise contractual arrangements and confirm timelines. The ambition is to have a fully functioning platform launch in the second half of the season.

This is an exciting project but would not be possible without the co-operation of BT Sport and the support of our key title sponsors Vanarama.

We are excited to move this forward promptly and will give regular updates as to the progress of the project.

In line with the FA guidelines, we will once again be paying our respects to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday's FA Cup Second Round Qualifying tie against Nuneaton Borough. 

Both sets of players and management teams wil be wearing black armbands and there will be a minute's silence ahead of kick off. The bar will close ten minutes prior to kick off and will re-open after the game starts to allow our bar staff to pay their respects. 

We ask fans to arrive at least 10 minutes early if possible, however if supporters are unable to then we request that they remain silent when passing through the turnstiles and when they enter the ground.