Fulham will not be able to call upon those players they have sent out on loan this season in this year's Championship play-offs.

Slavisa Jokanovic has sent out a number of his players on loan to various clubs around the country but he won't be able to use any of them in the play-off games, even if they return to Fulham after the end of their club's campaigns.

Rochard Stearman, Lasse Vigen Christensen, Ryan Tunnicliffe and Cauley Woodrow are all on loan at Championships clubs whose seasons finish this Sunday at the culmination of the Championship regular season.

Cameron Burgess, Sean Kavanagh, Jack Grimmer, Larnell Cole and Jozabed are all also out on loan, with the latter set to return in June from Celta Vigo.

Regulations state that a player who returns from loan before the completion of the league matches won't be eligible to play, and in this case the play-offs still count as Championship matches.

The EFL rules, Section Six state:

  • 53.1.4 A Player whose Standard Loan expires (or terminates) at the end of the Season of the Transferee Club but prior to the completion of the League Matches of his Transferor Club (where it is a Member Club) will not be eligible to play in any remaining League Matches for the Transferor Club in that Season

That means that Fulham will have to rely on the players that have got them to the play-offs to finish the job, something Scott Malone is relishing the chance of doing .