Premier League shareholders voted unanimously to return to small-group training starting Tuesday, the first step towards restarting English football matches, when safe to do so.

Following strict social distancing rules, teams can train in small groups of no more than five members, and sessions must not exceed 75 minutes for each player, while contact training is not yet permitted.

BBC Sports reports surprise inspections, GPS tracking and video analysis are methods that could be used to ensure clubs adhere to new safety guidance.

"Gradually, we aim to ramp that up so we can have an inspector at every training ground," said Premier League's director Richard Garlick. "That will enable us to give confidence the protocols are being complied with."

"We are looking at bringing in our own independent audit inspection team that we'll scale up over the next few days which will give us the ability to have inspections at training grounds to start with on a no-notice basis," Garlick added.

The Premier League targets June 12 to resume matches, a date that is highly possible to be extended.

"June 12 was a staging post; it wasn't a firm commitment and what we don't want to do is continue to move it around," said the league's chief executive Richard Masters.