The club's new multi-million pound facilities have been given the seal of approval by Boston Borough Council building control officers and the National League ground grading team (for playing behind-closed-doors).

It means United's next home fixture will be played at the new stadium – albeit behind-closed-doors due to continuing Government restrictions.

United's next home match is currently scheduled to be against Chorley on Saturday December 5.

While welcoming the news of being able to play at the stadium for the first time, United chairman David Newton re-iterated the 'stay at home' message to Boston fans, insisting their time will soon come to cheer on the Pilgrims in their new home for the first time.

Mr Newton commented: "We are delighted to have the green light to play fixtures at the new Jakemans Community Stadium. My thanks go to the whole team that have worked so hard to make this day happen. It was always going to be a challenge to build the new facility, but with the additional problems thrown up by the Covid-19 pandemic, I am really pleased that we are now able to play football at the stadium.

"My focus has been to give the fans the best possible experience, so it will also be a very sad day as we have to exclude fans under current guidelines. However, once the Covid restrictions allow we will look to let fans in to see the club's new home for themselves, within a Covid-secure environment.

"Some are understandably frustrated that they have not seen the facility, but it is important to me that the fans should be the first to see what we have created, before releasing images on the Internet, so I ask everyone to be patient a little while longer.

"We have had such a difficult start to the season, so I hope we can now have a run of games for this year's great squad to hopefully start to move us up the table as we head towards the Christmas period."

The United chairman also paid tribute to Gainsborough Trinity, where the Pilgrims have ground-shared during the opening weeks of the season.

He added: "My sincere thanks go to Richard Kane, who stepped in and allowed us to play at their historic ground.

"When the arrangement was put in place, it was really a 'fall-back' just to cover National League requirements and, to be honest, neither of us expected us to play there as the new stadium was on track at that time for an August opening.

"All the staff at The Northolme made us really welcome and could not have been more accommodating, so my thanks also go to them and we wish everyone at Gainsborough Trinity all the very best for the remainder of the season."