STAFF at Accrington Stanley Football Club are facing redundancy.

Club bosses announced the cuts to staffing levels, not including the players, yesterday.

Chairman Ilyas Khan says the cuts were a response to the club making a loss and where possible they will be in the form of reduced hours in an effort to keep compulsory redundancies to a minimum.

Mr Khan said: “I am afraid that like many many businesses, we are simply cutting our cloth according to our means and the persistent loss that we operate is not being met with increased gates.”

Mr Khan said he could not yet comment on the number of staff involved.