Serie A clubs have agreed a deal that will allow bottom club Parma, beset by financial problems, to complete the season, the league said after a meeting yesterday.

Parma’s players have not been paid all season and their last two Serie A matches have been postponed, one because they could not afford stewards or police at their Tardini stadium and the other after the players refused to play.

“The resolution was adopted confirming the willingness of the league to help Parma continue in the championship,” said Serie A president Maurizio Beretta in a statement.

He added that Italian football federation president Carlo Tavecchio would travel to Parma to put the proposed plan to the players.

Parma said that tomorrow’s match at home to Atalanta had been given the all clear by local safety officials and would go ahead.

Beretta told reporters a fund of five million euros would be created from money received from fines paid by the clubs for crowd trouble and other breaches of Serie A regulations.

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