It would be premature and not justified to close the leagues down now, writes Uefa in the letter.
don’t shut the national league down right now.
this is the message from The union of European Football associations (Uefa) in a letter to the member countries, leagues and clubs.
the Announcement comes after the belgian ligaforening Thursday decided to shut the league down. A resolution, which formally must be approved at a general meeting later in april.
But it should fodboldeuropa so hold back with, say Uefa.
– It is extremely important that, although not a devastating event such as this epidemic, host our tournaments from to be settled on the field under the current rules, and that the trophies are awarded on the basis of the results, it sounds in the letter.
– We believe that that can be played football again in the coming months under conditions that will be determined by the public authorities, and believes that any decision to close national tournaments down at the present time would be premature and not justified.
Uefa put up for clubs from countries where the leagues are closing down ahead of time, can be excluded from the european tournaments.
– participation in Uefas club competitions is determined from the results after a whole national tournament, a closure before the time create doubt as to whether or not the requirements (in order to participate in a Uefa tournament, red.) met, writes Uefa, which reserves the right to assess the clubs ‘ right to participate in next season’s european tournaments.
Uefa also opens the door ajar, for how the conduct of the rest of the football season can come to see out. Two working groups have been set up to look at how the season can be implemented.
Here are among the second set of the consequences that it will have to continue the season after the 30. June, otherwise there is the normal cut-off date.
– Groups the focus is on scenarios involving July and august, including the possibility of the european club competitions can be restarted after the national tournaments are over.
– A unified treatment of the calendars is necessary, since the end of the current season must be coordinated with the start of the next.
One of the two working groups looking at kalendermulighederne. It will as soon as possible, ideally by mid-may, “indicate”, which plan is taken into use to implement the season, “without leaving any”, says the letter.
in addition, the belgian is pretty much all the other leagues put on pause.
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