TRURO CITY have confirmed they will upgrade their Treyew Road home to allow them to compete in the National League South play-offs – and they will not be groundsharing at Torquay United next season.
The White Tigers, currently fourth in the league, will have to install a 250-seat covered stand by the March 31 deadline to enable them to compete in the play-offs.
Truro were scheduled to groundshare at Torquay’s Plainmoor next season with the construction of their new Silver Bow home delayed and the club needing to be out of Treyew Road by the summer.
However, a compromise has been reached which will allow the club to remain at Treyew Road until their new stadium is complete.
Work is scheduled to start in October 2016, with an anticipated eight-month build allowing Truro to move in for the 2017-18 season.
A club statement read: “Work is under way to enable Truro City to compete in the National League South play-offs, should the club finish the season in second to fifth place in the league.
“The club would like to extend its thanks to Torquay United for the offer to share its facilities with Truro City and to wish them all the best at a time when they too are in a period of transition.
“The club is aware that there has been a lot of uncertainty in recent months. However, it’s a fact of commercial life that many of the negotiations that have taken place about Truro City’s future have had to be kept confidential and so it has not always been possible to keep supporters informed to the extent we would have wished.
“As a reminder, the ground at Treyew Road was sold by the previous owners of the club. So when the current owners rescued Truro City, it had huge debts, no ground, was facing relegation and looked to be heading for the same sad fate that has befallen so many other Non-League clubs – bankruptcy and extinction.
“So to go from a position less than four years ago of not owning a ground of any description to being able to look forward to kicking off the 2017-18 season in a brand new Grade A stadium is an enormous achievement.
“It puts the club, already playing at the highest level of any in the history of Cornish football, in the position to compete at the top level of Non-League football and beyond.”
