Carlisle have announced that their Sky Bet League Two match with Notts County will be played at Preston's Deepdale stadium.
The Cumbrians' Brunton Park ground is currently under water following the floods caused by Storm Desmond over the weekend and there was no chance of the December 19 fixture being played there.
They contacted Championship Preston - 88 miles away down the M6 - about the possibility of using Deepdale and the move was given the green light by the Football League on Monday night.
Carlisle's club secretary Sarah McKnight said on the official website: "The number of offers of help from clubs at every level of the football pyramid has been humbling and overwhelming.
"Preston North End were in contact with us as early as Sunday night and Notts County have been extremely understanding every step of the way.
"We would also like to thank the Football League for their advice and assistance, and we will now look to finalise the details as quickly as possible."
North End chief executive John Kay added: "As a club we are delighted to be able to assist. We are all members of the same football family and in what has been a difficult time for the people of Lancashire, Cumbria and the community of Carlisle in particular, the owner and those involved day to day at Deepdale felt we should do everything we could to get the game played."
The announcement came after players from Carlisle's first-team squad stepped in to give a helping hand to their flood-affected neighbours.
Fifteen first-team players decided they needed to do something to help on the way home from Sunday's FA Cup second-round victory at Welling.
They rolled up their sleeves to assist in the clean-up operation at several homes in Warwick Road, as well as visiting nearby Greystone Community Centre which has acted as a makeshift reception centre in the aftermath of Storm Desmond.
Among the properties they visited was that of the club's kit woman, Emma Maclagan, and her father, Bill Douthwaite, who is a car park attendant at Brunton Park.
Douthwaite said it was "a wonderful thing" that the players had come to help.
He said: "It's a good family club anyway. That's what a football club should be about. It's all about spectators, the supporters of the club really. Players are here today, gone tomorrow, so are the people who own it, but the spectators are here forever. I have followed them since my dad first took me aged five.
"It's nice to get something back. To have your local team, your local heroes, do something for you is very nice."
Midfielder Luke Joyce, who helped clear Douthwaite's kitchen, said: "We are more than happy to help.
"It's terrible. When you watch it on telly you don't realise what's going on inside people's houses but when you come in here it's reality and it hit home the devastation caused. It's quite upsetting really.
"The Carlisle supporters every Saturday and Tuesday, win or lose, they are behind us giving us their full backing so it is the least we can do when they need us. It's nothing for us to give a few hours of our time and help them as much as we can."
Season-ticket holders Wilson and Angela Watson were delighted to welcome United players Charlie Wyke, Jason Kennedy and Joe Thompson into their home in Warwick Road.
After the trio shifted a heavy sideboard and a large oak table, together with stacking some chairs, they posed for a photograph with the couple.
Asked what the club's support meant to them, Wilson Watson, 73, said: "I think it's excellent. It doesn't matter if they didn't do anything. To just come and chat to people that's all that matters."
Carlisle goalkeeper Dan Hanford said he had to laugh when he spotted his wrecked vehicle in the club car park from a newspaper's aerial photograph of the damage.
A wheelie ban sat atop his £25,000 written-off BMW which was one of seven players' cars damaged in the car park.
He said: "The cars are all covered by insurance and they can be replaced very quickly. Some people's lives have been lost in the flood. We are better off than thousands of others."
Pointing to the car, he said: "I want to smile about this because that's nothing. That's not my life, that's replaceable."
Source: PA
