"But the sum can easily exceed £ 150 million ($ 1.8 billion) depending on the duration and the government's necessary measures," the FA writes on its website.

The FA proposes that all employees who earn at least 622,000 a year or more temporarily reduce their salary by 7.5 percent. Furthermore, the management team will go down in salary by 15 percent and those who earn the most - including the men's national team captain Gareth Southgate - cut their salary by 30 percent.