There is trouble with the Champions

The UEFA is in a crossroads. The coronavirus has put all its competitions in check. Postponed Euro Cup, in Nyon they strive to save Crown jewel, the Champions. But they also look Europa League threatened and the League of Nations, which should start in September. The irregular advance of the pandemic in Europe makes it very difficult to close a calendar. Each country has imposed its own quarantine, various measures for foreigners and restrictions to the displacements. With all these ingredients, UEFA wants to announce the next day 17 the plan to finish the european competitions. The different alternatives that it handles are the following:

TRADITIONAL FORMAT. The idea of ​​ending the competition with round-trip matches it disappears with each passing day. It would be the UEFA wish, but it is very possible that, after closing the round of 16, the tournament will air single party. UEFA, which has been widely criticized for its delay in suspending European competitions, has assumed that Governments from the different countries of the European Union They are not ready to run the irrigation of a regrowth disease due to the transit of equipment and people across the continent.

'FINAL FOUR'. Right now it is the option that has more supports. But the problem is that the rooms in the end they should be disputed either neutral field O well by draw, always clear is behind closed doors. The four teams that reach the semifinals will dispute the title in two semifinals to single party and in the final. The three clashes would be disputed in a single city, Saturday August 29, in a venue still to be determined after the more than likely resignation of istanbul. Lisbon and Munich have been offered as an alternative.

'END TO EIGHT'. If the pandemic does not remit and the logistical complexity to move the soccer teams and the television groups of the Champions League, other idea that UEFA has on the table is to gather the eight teams to be classified for eighth in a single city and, within two weeks, play, by direct knockouts, the four matches of the first crossing, the two semifinals and the final. The televisions with rights they put economic objections, but UEFA would be open to negotiation if it sees no other solution.

17 MATCHS LEFT. To conclude the Champions 17 games left (if the traditional system, to idea and return), and to finish the Europa League, with the same system, there earrings 27. UEFA's idea is close both tournaments, but it is already clear that it will be more feasible move forward the Champions than the Europa League, which points to direct knockouts at best. The end of competition is planned, for the time being, in the Polish city of Gdansk on 26 of August.

GROUP STAGE. The plans to restart European competitions go through the need for no sprouts in the national leagues, and also in what stick to the schedule restart expected in each of them. The Bundesliga It is done on going, and they will follow The league (11th of June), Premier (17) and A series (twenty). Once the national leagues are over, August will be free for European competitions. This will push the entire calendar of the next season, in which the group stage of the Champions League not would start before October 20.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. Not official yet, but everything aim to that rearrangement of the calendar of clubs will have consequences in the selections. The UEFA Nations League is still slated to kick off after the summer. Spain should play the day September 3 in Germany but in the Federation are aware that the Selection may not return until March Next year. The need to fill the dates for club competitions and to make room for the next Euro Cup, postponed to 2021, they leave few alternatives for the League of Nations. Spain will arrive to the next continental tournament with just five games in 18 months.