Barnet Football Club is on the hunt for a new home after announcing it is leaving Underhill stadium in north London after 104 years.
The League Two club’s lease with Barnet cricket club for part of the stadium expires in December 2012. The Football League has told Barnet FC it cannot start the 2012-13 season at Underhill without a contingency plan thereafter.
Barnet council has said that the club can use the premises if it reduces the capacity to 5,100 and relocates its offices.
Club chairman Tony Kleanthous said: “We have spent nearly £2m improving Underhill over the last few years, but Barnet council seems to want us to rip everything up and go back to the cloth cap days of cramming people in.”
He added: “It is time we looked to our future and how we can achieve a final solution to our ground problems.”
Savills is advising the council. Barnet FC said it has not appointed an agent to help with its stadium hunt.
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