UEFA has postponed the Champions League and Europa League until further notice.
But Mirror Sport understands that European football’s governing body is determined to play the games, once the domestic seasons are completed.
And furthermore, they want to play them in stadiums with fans and are reluctant to go behind closed doors, as UEFA president Alexander Ceferin has already confirmed.
All international fixtures in June are now off.
In a full statement after the UEFA video conference with 55 national associations – including the FA’s Mark Bullingham – these were the key points:
The deadlines related to all 2020/21 UEFA club competitions are postponed until further notice, in particular as regards the admission process and the registration of players. UEFA will set new deadlines in due course.
Following today’s videoconference meeting with the general secretaries of all 55 UEFA member associations and recommendations made by the working groups created on 17 March, the UEFA Executive Committee took a series of decisions, as follows:
On competition matters
“All national team matches for men and women due to be played in June 2020 are postponed until further notice. This includes the play-off matches for UEFA EURO 2020 and qualifying matches for UEFA Women’s EURO 2021.
“All other UEFA competition matches, including the centralised international friendly matches, remain postponed until further notice.”
