Senior Doncaster Rovers to defer a percentage of wages until crowds return to football

Rovers players and many staff members were placed on furlough leave in early April as the club announced cost-cutting measures amid the coronavirus pandemic.

This latest gesture from players will further aid the League One club as it copes with an extended spell of financial uncertainty- with football likely to be staged in front of empty stadiums when it resumes for the remainder of 2020.

A club statement read: "Football faces uncertain times with no clarity yet on when or if the 2019-20 Sky Bet League One season will be completed or when games will be able to be played in front of supporters.

"While Club Doncaster has worked hard to diversify its revenue streams, the business has only been able to bring in a fraction of its usual income and as a result more than 200 staff, including Rovers players and playing staff, have been furloughed.

"This has helped to safeguard the club in the immediacy of this crisis.

"Despite the challenges, Club Doncaster has worked hard to top up its employees’ pay to ensure that every member of the Club Doncaster family can rule out money worries from what is already an extremely difficult time.

"The players’ wage deferral will go a long way to allowing the club to keep fulfilling its aim to support staff in this way and give the club the best chance of surviving if football needs to be played behind closed doors."