Chesterfield will play Macclesfield Town next season after Silkmen are relegated to National League following points deduction

The club has been deducted four points for failing to pay their players on time in March and, as a result, drop to the bottom of League Two and have been relegated.

Stevenage, who finished 24th and had been preparing to play in the National League, will not be relegated and will be in League Two next season.

Macclesfield had initially been deducted two points, with four points suspended, but the English Football League won an appeal against the decision.

The EFL said in a statement: "An independent arbitration panel has upheld the EFL’s appeal in respect of the outcome of an independent disciplinary commission who in June 2020 had considered misconduct charges brought against Macclesfield Town.

“The charges related to failing to pay a number of players on the applicable payment dates due in March 2020, failing to act with utmost good faith in respect of matters with the EFL and for breaching an order, requirement, direction or instruction of the league.

"The arbitration panel confirmed that the two-point suspended sporting sanction activated on 19 June 2020 from previous proceedings will stand and in addition the four point deduction, originally suspended in the latest proceedings and only to be activated in the event of a further breach of Regulation 63.7 during season 2020/21, will be activated immediately and applied to the 2019/20 table.

“The arbitration panel’s decision is final and binding.”

Macclesfield are yet to comment.