Ahead of a new season of SSE Airtricity League Football, beginning next month, the First Division may be about to lose yet another team.
The Sunday Times reports Wexford Youths face a winding up order over a massive debt.
Youths, who were relegated from the Premier Division are owned by Independent TD, Mick Wallaces business interest, M&J Wallace, which is in liquidation, after going bankrupt in December 2016.
The Sunday newspaper report the club is in debt to the tune of €200K.
In early 2016, the Football Association of Ireland bought the clubs home ground, Ferrycarrig Park from a reciever.
The news will be grim reading for FAI CEO John Delaney, and League of Ireland Director, Fran Gavin, who are in the firing line at the moment in relation to the recent Gabbay report into the marketing of the League and proposals from the Conway Report to make each division ten teams each, with three falling from the Premier and one going up from the First division in the 2017 season.
