"Rick Parry has often said that ‘the EFL should look down as well as up’, so we’d now like that to happen,” said the National League chair.

The 3UP campaign aims to make advancement into the EFL a more achievable task for teams at the lower end of the English football pyramid

All 72 National League clubs have called for the English Football League to introduce an extra promotion place into League Two. The clubs unanimously agreed last week to throw their support behind one of the most significant changes to English football’s structure in recent history,

National League clubs want the EFL to introduce the "three-up, three-down" system between the fifth tier and League Two.