Much of the future of European football will be resolved this morning in the meeting that UEFA will hold with the representatives of the 55 member Federations, the Club Association (ECA), the leagues (EPFL) and the unions (FIFPro).
At the summit, which will take place via videoconference, decisions will be made about the Champions League, the Europa League and the Euro Cup that was to be held from mid-June. The leagues of the old continent, mostly suspended by the coronavirus, are very attentive to what is decided in this meeting, since the resolutions that are taken will mark the procedure of domestic competitions.
Single match playoffs, final four or postpone European formats are options that will be on a dialogue table where the leagues are expected to defend that the national championships can conclude. With a saturated schedule, the most sensible thing seems to be to postpone the European Championship until 2021. That would allow flexibility to be able to recover the matches suspended by the pandemic, or what is the same, the leagues could end relatively normally by having dates in which dispute the matches.
If the European team remains, there will be hardly any gaps to catch up on the competition, which could force other more radical measures such as the cancellation of the season and the injustices that this entails.