Uefa, Europe’s leagues and top clubs determined to finish seasonJuly and August finishes are being looked at Uefa and Europe’s football leagues and top clubs have emphasised their determination to complete the 2019-20 season despite the coronavirus shutdown, with Uefa saying it may not accept clubs into next season’s
Champions League if they have not qualified in the normal way.In a joint letter sent on Thursday night to Europe’s 55 national FAs, leagues and top-division clubs, the Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin, chairman of the European Club Association Andrea Agnelli, and Lars-Christer Olsson, president of European Leagues, maintain that remaining club matches in national leagues and the Champions and Europa Leagues may be completed by playing into July and August. However they acknowledge that the scale of the crisis means they do not expect to have a clear idea of how that might be done until mid-May at the earliest.
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