By Andrew Warshaw
March 25 – The English football pyramid below the four main leagues are at loggerheads over whether to shut the season down totally due to Covid-19.
March 25 – Last weekend Spain’s LaLiga hosted an esports competition played between players from its top clubs to raise funds for the battle against the coronavirus. This weekend it is running a global online music concert.
March 25 – The suspension of Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 until at least April 30 has also had a knock on effect for its media rights tenders.
March 25 – Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi and Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola have each donated €1 million towards the fight against coronavirus.
March 25 – With football wiped off the map because of Covid-19, well-known names across the sport are constantly doing their bit for the vulnerable and endangered members of local communities.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 24 – UEFA has bowed to the inevitable and postponed the Champions League and Europa League finals, and the women’s Champions League final, due to have been played in May – with no rearranged dates.
By Paul Nicholson
March 23 – With Europe’s leagues desperate to find a way of resuming some form of play calendar discussions in Italy are suggesting a resumption in May, while the Premier League is reportedly reviewing plans to resume on June 1.
March 23 – Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz, who oversaw two Champions League titles while in charge of the club, has died from Covid-19 at the age of 76.
March 23 – With the UK in the grip of the spread of the Coronavirus, Premier League clubs are launching a series of initiatives to provide support in the their home cities.
March 20 – Players, coaches and directors of German top-flight club Borussia Monchengladbach, who sit fourth in the table, have agreed to defer their wages to help less advantaged employees in football’s latest humanitarian gesture to counter Covid-19 .
March 20 – Just days after the head of Switzerland’s FA stood up at the UEFA Congress and warned of the dire consequences of Covid-19 on football in his country, Swiss top-flight outfit FC Sion have reportedly terminated the contracts of nine players, including captain Xavier Kouassi, former Swiss international Johan Djourou and ex-Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder Alex Song.
March 19 – With the Premier League having announced that all matches are currently suspended until April 30, Manchester United have announced they will pay wages to their casual workforce whether games are played or not.
March 19 – English football, already wiped off the map until April 3 because of the continued spread of coronavirus, will now be suspended until April 30 following a crisis video conference of the sport’s various authorities today.
March 19 – Despite Covid-19 decimating football across Europe, there is light at the end of the tunnel with La Liga President Javier Tebas saying major leagues are preparing to resume in mid-May and finish by the end of June as long as the climate is right.
March 19 – UEFA has confirmed that provide full refunds will be paid to fans who bought tickets for Euro 2020 if they are unable to reschedule for next year, saying sticking with the original dates would have been far too dangerous because of Covid-19.