The UEFA already contemplates the option of not finishing the competitions

What at the beginning considered a hypothetical nightmare goes winning options, little by little, given the current situation. The forecasts of the next months leave a lot of doubts on if the pandemia of the coronavirus will be controlled in the majority of European countries, and seems unlikely that all can go back to a relative normality in question of weeks.

In this sense, the UEFA begins to pose the option that they can not finish the competitions of this season 2019-20, neither the leagues neither neither the European tournaments. If this sucediera, the Executive Committee of the UEFA has decided that they will be the Federations of each country those that choose to his European representatives for the following season.

In the case of LaLiga Santander, the RFEF already announced that the clubs that would go to the Champions League 2020-21 would be the four first qualifiers of the current championship: FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Seville and Real Sociedad. The decision raised polvareda with the complaints of Getafe, empatado to points with the group 'txuri urdin', and in Valencia and an Athletic of Madrid that do not consider just the measure.

Aleksander Ceferin In a press conference of the UEFA

It was as it was, the reality is that the Federations will be able to choose to his European representatives always under some objective "and transparent principles", as it ensures the UEFA, and in function of the sportive merits contracted along the present course. It treats of an option more than stirs to measure that happen the weeks, although the main aim of the maximum organism of the European football is to conclude the Leagues in his usual format.

To be impossible, the UEFA aims to finish the tournaments with formats slightly altered, that well could give by a system of similar playoff to the contrived by the League Endesa of basketball in our country, that will have headquarters in The Canarians.

The extreme case that would suppose the suspension and no ending of the Leagues only would give if the governmental and sanitary authorities of the countries forbade the resumption of the competitions, or that this was unfeasible by reasons of economic or financial type derivative of the pandemia that are living in these moments.

The UEFA handles a Plan To and a Plan B

If the cancellation of the competitions did not give by any of these reasons, the UEFA would reserve the right to veto the presence of the teams chosen from the dispatches, when considering that the election would not adjust to the marked criteria in the meeting celebrated this Thursday. If all course according to the planned, there are two stages that compose the PlanTo : paginate Leagues and European tournaments or finish first Leagues and the Champions, in August.

If this could not be and cancel the competitions of the campaign 2019-20, it will be necessary to resort to the Plan B that the Federations assign to his European representatives of face to the next season. Luckily, still they remain weeks so that the situation can normalise and return the optimism, although with a clear premise: the health, above all else.