soccer events around the world hit by coronavirus pandemic

soccer events around the world hit by coronavirus pandemic
soccer events around the world hit by coronavirus pandemic

* All elite soccer matches in England,including the Premier League, Football League (EFL) and Women's Super League(WSL), were suspended until April 4.

* The German Football League called off matchesscheduled for March 13-15 in the Bundesliga and second-tier Bundesliga 2. Theyrecommended both leagues be suspended until April 2.

* UEFA postponed all Champions League andEuropa League matches due to take place this week.

* The Confederation of African Football haspostponed two rounds of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers scheduled forMarch 25-31.

* CONCACAF suspended all competitions,including the Champions League and men's Olympic qualifiers.

* The Paraguayan FA has suspended all gamesuntil March 24.

* The Colombian league has suspended alltournaments until further notice.

* The Chilean FA ordered all games due to beplayed between March 19 and April 19 take place without fans.

* The top two tiers of French football — Ligue1 and Ligue 2 — have been suspended.

* All soccer matches in Spain's top twodivisions were postponed for two weeks.

* England's friendly internationals againstItaly and Denmark at Wembley on March 27 and 31 will not take place, whileDenmark cancelled their March 27 friendly against the Faroe Islands.

* The Norwegian Football Federation said it didnot plan to hold Norway's Euro 2020 playoff match against Serbia that wasscheduled for March 26.

* Poland's soccer league has postponed allgames at least until the end of March.

* U.S. Major League Soccer has suspended itsseason.

* U.S. Soccer's Open Cup Committee hassuspended its 2020 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.

* All soccer in the Netherlands wassuspended until the end of March. The national team cancelled their Euroswarm-up matches against the United States (March 26) and Spain (March 29).

* FIFA and the Asian Football Confederationhave agreed to postpone Asian World Cup qualifying matches in March and June.

* FIFA has postponed South American qualifyingmatches for the 2022 World Cup between March 23-31.

* Spain's Copa del Rey final between AthleticBilbao and Real Sociedad (Seville; April 18) was postponed.

* New seasons in the Chinese, Japanese andSouth Korean leagues were postponed.

* A four-team event in Doha featuring Croatia,Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland (March 26-30) was cancelled.

* A friendly between Germany and Italy(Nuremberg; March 31) will take place without fans.

* Tickets are not being sold for the Euro 2020qualifying playoff semi-finals between Bulgaria and Hungary and Bosnia andNorthern Ireland.

* Asian Champions League: Matches involvingChinese clubs Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG werepostponed. The start of the knockout rounds was moved back to September.

* The Brazilian Football Confederation orderedall games due to be played in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to take placewithout fans until further notice.

* The Uruguayan Football Association hassuspended all professional games until further notice.

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