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Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA, beside the Champions League trophy

PROGRAMMED FOR AUGUST

UEFA also prepares the calendar for Champions and Europa League

Published:8/05/2020 - 18:44h

Updated:11/05/2020 - 09:18h

Football has started working after several months of confinement, and the next few weeks will be decisive. If everything goes as planned, UEFA will also activate the new schedule for the Champions League and Europa League

Calendar of FC Barcelona

The football has given another step forward in his battle against the coronavirus, and this week has recovered the trainings. After several months of confinement, the clubs have made tests to his professionals and have received green light to restart his activity with some measures of prevention and limitations. The final aim is to be smart to restart the competitions and complete what remains of campaign 2019-20.

According to the newspaper 'Mark', the UEFA is very attentive to the movements that make in Europe, that will be keys for the turn of his tournaments. From the first moment, the maximum authority of the old continent separated his interests -so much regarding clubs as to selections- and announced that the priority were the domestic championships, that have to ensure the future of this sport in spite of the economic crisis.

The organism directed by Alexander Ceferin keeps his initial forecast, and wait that the return of the Champions and the Europe League can carry out in August. The quoted half concrete that, in spite of that contemplate several stages and plans of performance, expects that there is free road so that the finals contest in the days that already reprogramaron, for the day 26 in Istanbul and the 29 in Gdansk respectively.

The intention that celebrate the 17 corresponding meetings to the five pending days of the 'orejona', an account in which it is not included the definite party. The eliminatory of eighth, the first in appearing, would coincide with the ones of his 'lower sister', that has but work because it did not complete numerous commitments of gone. In total would be 27 duels for recovering of six days programmed -also without final-. Like sucederá with the leagues, there would be calendar exprés, that would contemplate clashes followed between week and in the weekend.

To be able to carry out his new organisation, UEFA depends on three factors. To start with, it attends to an official resumption of the leagues to which has requested that they try to finish before the first week of August, that the health allow to follow advancing to the sport without more setbacks and that in the meeting of his Executive the next 27 May approve these measures and postpone the next phase of groups until 20 October, that would correspond already to a course 2020-21 still for structuring.

LaLiga Already thinks in the end of the month of June

LaLiga Has underlined that the Government will have to give him definite permission, but already works thinking in going back to play on 20 June. In an interview for this same half, Javier Aguirre revealed that to the Leganés have confirmed him that that is the official date to restart the championship of the regularity, that would have to be finishing for 26 July. Now it will be necessary to see if all advance as the planned and the pieces of the puzzle at last fit. With slow and firm step, the football begins to recover .