Forest Green Rovers have been relegated from the Football League following Colchester's 1-0 victory over Grimsby on Tuesday evening. The club has not been able to recreate the effective and entertaining style of football that helped win promotion to League One in 2022. Rovers will be competing in the Vanarama National League next season and looking to put things right over the summer in preparation for the new campaign.

Chairman Dale Vince"

Obviously everyone at the club is disappointed with the outcome of this season, which last night’s results have crystallised. Our best efforts have not been good enough, in recruitment primarily - it’s not a budget issue. On the upside we now have in place an excellent manager and player recruitment lead in Steve Cotterill. We will open new training facilities at Junction 13 in time for next season, these will be by far and away the best facilities FGR has ever had. As a club we’ll probably be in the best position we've been in for two seasons - since we won League Two.“Relegation is something nobody wants, but it happens in football of course and it’s not the end of the world. It’s a litmus test, against which we can be clear we’ve not been good enough, but we can plan to recover. We’re grateful to our fans for their loyal support through a second difficult season in a row and pledge to move heaven and earth to get back to a better place, in terms of our football and league position.