ONE team will be relegated and two promoted to the Women’s Championship in the 2019-20 season, the Football Association announced today.

Last term the Championship had 11 teams and no relegation, and it had been set to expand to a 12-team competition for the following season.

But the club relegated from the Women’s Super League in 2018-19, Yeovil, failed to secure a licence to play in the second tier.

They were deducted 10 points by the FA in March after lodging notice of intention to appoint an administrator.

The Championship is now set to be an 11-team competition once again, before expanding to 12 in 2020-21.

An FA statement said: “Following the withdrawal of Yeovil Town Ladies FC from Tier 2 of the women’s football pyramid [FA Women’s Championship], the FA Women’s Football Board has agreed that at the conclusion of the 2019-2020 season, two teams [champions of the FA Women’s National League Northern and Southern Divisions respectively] will be promoted from Tier 3 to Tier 2 and one team [bottom placed team in the FA Women’s Championship] will be relegated from Tier 2 to Tier 3 [either the Northern or Southern Division of the FA Women’s National League based on the geography].”

The FA added that teams’ promotion to the Championship would be subject to meeting the second-tier licence criteria.

The top two spots in the Championship, claimed by Manchester United and Tottenham, were promotion berths last season — this time only the club that finishes first will go up.

The two teams that gained promotion to the Championship last season were Blackburn and Coventry.