UK government give Premier League the green light to restart the season from June 1 behind closed doors

The Premier League has received the green light from the United Kingdom government to restart the season behind closed doors from June 1.

This comes after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out road maps on Sunday evening to ease lockdown restrictions during the Coronavirus pandemic. 

A full report has now been released.

The 50-page document includes "permitting cultural and sporting events to take place behind-closed-doors for broadcast, while avoiding the risk of large-scale social contact," but this cannot happen before June 1.

Titled "Our Plan to Rebuild: The UK Government's COVID-19 Recovery Strategy," the document says lockdown measures will only be eased once certain measures have been met.

No spectators will be allowed at matches should the Premier League return, with the league's 20 clubs set for a vote on how to resume the season in the next few days, including the use of neutral venues to host matches. 

Fans in football stadiums "may only be fully possible significantly later depending on the reduction in numbers of infections," the report states.

"Some venues which are, by design, crowded and where it may prove difficult to enact distancing may still not be able to reopen safely at this point, or maybe able to open safely only in part."