Coronavirus: UEFA Postpone Champions And Europa League Games

UEFA have announced that all Champions League and Europa League games are postponed next week.

That affects Chelsea, Wolves and Manchester United who all had return games while Manchester City’s tie with Real Madrid was already postponed.

UEFA will decide on Tuesday at their crisis summit how to reschedule games and the quarter final draw which is also postponed.

The UEFA statement read: In the light of developments due to the spread of COVID-19 in Europe and related decisions made by different governments, all UEFA club competitions matches scheduled next week are postponed.

This includes the remaining UEFA Champions League, Round of 16 second leg matches scheduled on 17 and 18 March 2020; all UEFA Europa League, Round of 16 second leg matches scheduled on 19 March 2020; all UEFA Youth League, quarter-final matches scheduled on 17 and 18 March 2020.

Further decisions on when these matches take place will be communicated in due course.

As a consequence of the postponements, the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League quarter-final draws scheduled for 20 March have also been postponed.

UEFA yesterday invited representatives of its 55 member associations, together with the boards of the European Club Association and the European Leagues and a representative of FIFPro, to a videoconference meeting on Tuesday 17 March to discuss European football’s response to the outbreak.

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