Levante's players have announced an "indefinite" strike starting from Saturday over unpaid wages, with the team due to face Real Madrid in their final game of the Primera Liga season on Sunday.
This is the second time the Levante playing staff have called a strike, having last month announced they intended to withdraw their services on the weekend of April 26 and 27 because of the club's continuing failure to pay up outstanding salaries and bonuses dating back two years.
That situation was averted after a deal was eventually thrashed out on the evening of Friday April 25, with Valencia city council stepping in to help the club by guaranteeing an eight million euros fund to keep the players going in the short term.
However, the situation has still not been satisfactorily resolved for the players and, after wearing t-shirts and displaying banners highlighting their plight prior to their last two league matches, on Monday they called a second strike.
Unless the strike is cancelled then already-relegated Levante will sit out Sunday's season-finale against Madrid at the Bernabeu.
