When will the anthem of the Champions League resound in a stadium again? UEFA is working feverishly on a model for the next few months – there are initial plans.
No live football, but instead a lot of need for discussion.
In times of the corona crisis more questions are open in sports than ever before. The most pressing ones for football: What is the next step and when?
There are at least some scenarios for the immediate future of the Champions League.
To be more precise: seven scenarios that are apparently being considered by the European football association UEFA in order to save the season that is currently suspended.
As reported by the Bild am Sonntag, the planning games for the future – the so-called “Corona Calendar” – have already been presented to the 55 national football associations.
Finals in any case before the end of June
The plan is to conclude the Champions League with the final on 27 June in Istanbul – in this detail, all scenarios are the same. The Europa League is to end three days earlier with the final in Gdansk.
The reason for this is that the end of June will be the end of all professional contracts that expire at that time.
“We have to have different scenarios in mind, we just shouldn’t spread them all out,” said DFB Vice President Rainer Koch, who is also a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, in the CHECK24 one-two on SPORT1. He said it was a matter of drawing up plans “in order not to be faced with a total economic disaster after Corona”.
Much depends on the start date
The first possible date for the resumption of play is 14 April (so far only parts of the round of sixteen duels have been played, with FC Bayern’s return match against Chelsea, for example, still to come). This scenario envisages continuing in the old familiar mode – including a round of 16 with Italian champions Juventus in Turin or a quarter-final with Atalanta from the crisis hotspot Bergamo. The ball would roll nine times during the week, ten times at the weekend – if necessary, even parallel to the matches in the national leagues.
All matches would be played in the same mode.
But the second scenario already differs significantly from the first. If it were to be continued on 28 April, the schedule would have to be compressed even more. Eight weekends and seven English weeks would therefore be the plan.When will the anthem of the Champions League resound in a stadium again? UEFA is working feverishly on a model for the next few months – there are initial plans.
No live football, but instead a lot of need for discussion.
In times of the corona crisis more questions are open in sports than ever before. The most pressing ones for football: What is the next step and when?
There are at least some scenarios for the immediate future of the Champions League.
To be more precise: seven scenarios that are apparently being considered by the European football association UEFA in order to save the season that is currently suspended.
As reported by the Bild am Sonntag, the planning games for the future – the so-called “Corona Calendar” – have already been presented to the 55 national football associations.
Finals in any case before the end of June
The plan is to conclude the Champions League with the final on 27 June in Istanbul – in this detail, all scenarios are the same. The Europa League is to end three days earlier with the final in Gdansk.
The reason for this is that the end of June will be the end of all professional contracts that expire at that time.
“We have to have different scenarios in mind, we just shouldn’t spread them all out,” said DFB Vice President Rainer Koch, who is also a member of the UEFA Executive Committee, in the CHECK24 one-two on SPORT1. He said it was a matter of drawing up plans “in order not to be faced with a total economic disaster after Corona”.
Much depends on the start date
The first possible date for the resumption of play is 14 April (so far only parts of the round of sixteen duels have been played, with FC Bayern’s return match against Chelsea, for example, still to come). This scenario envisages continuing in the old familiar mode – including a round of 16 with Italian champions Juventus in Turin or a quarter-final with Atalanta from the crisis hotspot Bergamo. The ball would roll nine times during the week, ten times at the weekend – if necessary, even parallel to the matches in the national leagues.
All matches would be played in the same mode.
But the second scenario already differs significantly from the first. If it were to be continued on 28 April, the schedule would have to be compressed even more. Eight weekends and seven English weeks would therefore be the plan.
