Close contacts by covid disappear in RFEF competitions

The RFEF It has just sent a circular to all the non-professional clubs of enormous importance for this final stretch of the competitions organized by the federation.

Circular derived from the new reality of the COVID and the latest measures taken by the Ministry of Health. According to it, from now on “there will be no consideration of close contacts within a football team” since their determination is limited to areas considered vulnerable. In other words, except in cases of vulnerability, the concept of close contact disappears as has been carried out at the national level.

This has two consequences. On the one hand, in cases of well-founded suspicion of an outbreak, both the RFEF or the affected club must inform the CSD or to the competent authority “24 hours from knowledge of the cases”.

And the second and most important is that the concept of postponements existing until now disappears. As reflected in the same letter “regarding the requests for postponements motivated by the COVIDand given the new national health strategy, they will not be attended to when there is a sufficient number of players established by the General Regulations who do not present a positive result for active infection.

It is article 223 of the Regulations that sets a minimum of seven players from the first squad: “In order to start a match, each of the teams must appear with at least seven footballers from those who make up the squad of the category in which they play. militate, provided that such an anomaly is not a consequence of the will of the club but is motivated by reasons of force majeure. If said cause does not concur or, in any case, if the number is lower, the club that proceeds in this way will be considered as not appearing.

Regulation that comes back into force instead of the existing one until now of a minimum of five in the exceptionality of the COVIDas well as “the minimum availability of 13 footballers between the first team and the dependent teams or subsidiary club included in this section”.

As the same federative circular follows, and given the disappearance of this concept of close contact, it will be possible to play as long as there is this minimum of seven players and, furthermore, it will no longer be possible to argue the COVID as a reason for suspension and postponement in accordance with article 139.3 of the RFEF General Regulations which says the following: “In no case may the clubs invoke as force majeure to request such a suspension and such a postponement of a match the circumstance of not being able to line up certain footballers because they are subject to federative suspension, due to illness or injury, or due to have been called to intervene in their national teams.”

Measures that affect all competitions of the RFEF as the First RFEFWomen’s First Division, Challenge League, futsal, etc.

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