Major sports events around the world that are in the process of re-starting or have been rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic:
SOCCER
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* Major League Soccer players returned to voluntary training on May 6.
* The 2020 K-League season kicked off on May 8 behind closed doors.
* Euro 2020 and Copa America were postponed. The two tournaments will now be staged from June 11 to July 11, 2021.
* The Euro 2021 Women’s Championship has been pushed back to July 6-31, 2022.
* Asian Champions League: Matches involving Chinese clubs Guangzhou Evergrande, Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai SIPG were postponed. The start of the knockout rounds was moved back to September.
* The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has drawn up three plans to complete the 2020 Chinese Super League (CSL) season, one of which would see the campaign begin in late June and finish in December.
* Burundi’s domestic season will resume on May 21. The semi-finals and final of the country’s domestic cup competition will be staged, with the decider to be held on June 13.
* The women’s Bundesliga season will resume from May 29 pending a green light from local authorities.
* The women’s Under-20 World Cup in Costa Rica and Panama, postponed from August-September, has been rescheduled for Jan. 20-Feb. 6, 2021.
* The Futsal World Cup, originally scheduled for September-October this year in Lithuania, was pushed to Sept. 12-Oct. 3, 2021.
* The women’s Under-17 World Cup in India, originally planned for November, has been rescheduled for Feb. 17-March 7, 2021.
OLYMPICS
* The postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will now begin on July 23, 2021 and run until Aug. 8.
* World Athletics has suspended Olympic qualification until December.
PARALYMPICS
The postponed Paralympic Games will run from Aug. 24-Sep. 5, 2021.
WORLD BEACH GAMES
The 2021 World Beach Games were moved to 2023.
WORLD GAMES
* The 2021 World Games have been pushed back by a year to avoid clashing with the Olympics.
ATHLETICS
* The World Athletics Championships scheduled for 2021 in Eugene, Oregon have been moved to the summer of 2022 because of the Olympic Games rescheduling.
* The World Athletics Indoor Championships (Nanjing, March 13-15) were postponed to March 19-21, 2021.
* Boston Marathon organisers have postponed the race from April 20 to Sept. 14.
* The London Marathon which was due to take place on April 26 has been postponed to Oct. 4.
* The Diamond League plans to hold three meetings in August in Monaco, Gateshead and Stockholm followed by September events in Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, Shanghai and possibly Rome or Naples. Meetings in Eugene, Doha and China have been scheduled for October.
* World Athletics released its calendar for the international season beginning with a Continental Tour Gold event in Finland on Aug. 11 and ending with a Diamond League meeting in China.
AUSTRALIAN RULES
* The Australian Football League (AFL) hopes to resume its season in June.
BADMINTON
* The Thomas and Uber Cup will be held from Oct. 3-11.
* The 2021 World Championships will begin in late November instead of August to avoid clashing with the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.
BASEBALL
* The South Korean league started on May 5 without fans.
* Taiwan’s baseball season resumed in April behind closed doors. On May 9, fans were allowed in for the first time, with 1,000 spectators watching games in New Taipei and Taichung.
* Major League Baseball team owners on May 11 agreed a plan to start playing in empty stadiums in early July and will present a proposal to players on May 12 outlining plans for the start of the 2020 season.
BOXING
* Dillian Whyte’s heavyweight fight against Alexander Povetkin has been rescheduled for July 4.
CANOEING
* Canoe Slalom World Cups in France and Czech Republic have been tentatively rescheduled to October or November.
* The Canoe Slalom World Cup Final and non-Olympic World Championships in Germany have been moved from September to October.
* Canoe Polo World Championships in Rome have been pushed back until April 2021.
CRICKET
* English cricket’s The Hundred, originally scheduled to begin on July 17, was pushed back to 2021.
CYCLING
* Giro d’Italia will begin on Oct. 3, while the Spanish Vuelta will be held from Oct. 20.
* Milan-Sanremo will be held on Aug. 8, Liege-Bastogne-Liege on Oct. 4, the Tour des Flandres on Oct. 18, Paris-Roubaix on Oct. 25 and the Tour of Lombardy on Oct. 31.
* The Tour de France that was due to be held from June 27-July 19 has been postponed to Aug. 29-Sept 20.
* The European Road Cycling Championships, scheduled for Sept. 9-13, have been postponed by a year.
GOLF
* Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff will take part in a $3 million charity skins match on May 17.
* Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will compete in a charity match on May 24 at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida.
* The Harding Park golf course which is scheduled to host the PGA Championship in August re-opened on May 4.
* The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club has been rescheduled for Nov. 12-15 from April 9-12.
* The PGA Championships at TPC Harding Park San Francisco, has been rescheduled for Aug. 6-9 from May 14-17.
* The U.S. Open at Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck, New York, was rescheduled to Sept. 17-20 from June 8-21.
* The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is hoping to get the 2020 season underway with the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational from July 15-18.
* The Women’s PGA Championship has been postponed from late June to Oct. 8-11.
* The Australian PGA Championship will take place at the Royal Queensland Golf Club from Dec. 3-6.
* The first major of the 2020 golf season will get underway on May 14 when South Korea hosts the Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) Championship.
HORSE RACING
* Racing in France began without spectators at ParisLongchamp on May 11.
* Horse racing resumed in Germany on May 7 with a limited number of races in front of empty stands in Hanover. Races were also scheduled for May 8 in Cologne.
* The Kentucky Derby, the first jewel in North American horse racing’s Triple Crown (May 2) was postponed to Sept. 5.
* Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby, will open for spectator-free racing on May 16.
* The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has said it is planning to resume the season on June 1.
MOTOR SPORTS
* NASCAR said its season would resume on May 17 at the Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.
* The Le Mans 24 hours race was postponed from June 13-14 to Sept. 19-20.
* The Indianapolis 500 has been postponed until Aug. 23.
* MotoGP intends to start its season with races on July 19 and 26 at the Jerez circuit in southern Spain.
* IndyCar will open its delayed season on June 6 with the Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) without fans in attendance.
* Formula One hopes to start the delayed season in Austria in July without spectators before ending in Abu Dhabi in December.
NBA
Teams were notified they could reopen practice facilities on May 8 under strict guidelines. Reigning NBA champions Toronto Raptors are allowing players access to their training facilities from this week.
NFL
* The NFL season will begin on Sept. 10 with a game between Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans.
NHL
The National Hockey League has scrapped plans to play regular-season games in the Czech Republic and Finland this year. The NHL suspended play in mid-March, but hopes to reopen training facilities by mid-to-late May.
RUGBY
* Australia’s National Rugby League is set for a May 28 restart after players agreed to 20% pay-cuts for the abridged 2020 season.
* Rugby Australia hopes to get players back in training in June for matches in July.
* New Zealand’s five Super Rugby teams will play each other in a 10-week domestic competition from June 13.
* The Mitre 10 Cup, New Zealand’s annual provincial competition, will start with a full 14-team championship from Sept. 11.
* Rugby Australia are looking at potentially including both the Western Force and Japan’s Sunwolves in a competition with their four Super Rugby sides to start in early July.
SNOOKER
* The World Snooker Championship, originally scheduled to begin on April 18, will start on July 31 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
SWIMMING
* The 2020 European Aquatics Championships scheduled to take place from May 11-24 in Budapest, Hungary, have been postponed to next year.
* The World Aquatics Championships, scheduled for July 16-Aug. 1, 2021, were pushed back to May 13-29, 2022.
TENNIS
* The French Open was postponed until Sept. 20-Oct. 4.
* The women’s Rogers Cup tournament in Montreal was postponed until 2021.
* Professional tennis returned with the Tennis Point Exhibition Series event in Germany on May 1.
* Hubert Hurkacz, Miomir Kecmanovic, Reilly Opelka and Tommy Paul took part in the UTR Pro Match Series in Florida that began on May 8.
* Patrick Mouratoglou’s tennis academy in France will host a five-week series in May.
ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP
* UFC action returned with UFC 249 on May 9. Two more cards are scheduled for May 13 and May 16.
List of sports events that have either been cancelled or postponed due to the outbreak:
OLYMPIC TRIALS
* U.S. trials for wrestling (April 4-5) were postponed.
* U.S. Rowing postponed its team trials.
* U.S. diving trials (April 3-5) were postponed.
NORTH AMERICA
* The MLB has further delayed its 2020 season’s opening day of March 26.
* The Women’s National Basketball Association postponed the start of its 2020 regular season, originally scheduled to run from May 15-Sept. 20.
* The 2019/20 American Hockey League regular season and the 2020 Calder Cup Playoffs were cancelled. The AHL standings at the time of suspension will be used to determine league awards.
SOCCER
* FIFA has agreed to delay the first edition of its revamped Club World Cup due to be held in 2021.
* UEFA put all club and national team competitions for men and women on hold until further notice.
* The men’s and women’s Champions League finals and Europa League final originally scheduled for May have been postponed.
* The German Cup final has been postponed indefinitely from its original May 23 date.
* South America’s two biggest club competitions, the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana, are suspended.
* CONCACAF suspended all competitions, including the Champions League and men’s Olympic qualifiers.
* Asian and South American qualifying matches for 2022 World Cup were postponed.
* Japan’s J.League will not hold any games in May.
* Barcelona’s women’s team were declared champions of Spain’s Liga Iberdrola after the national soccer federation’s executive committee agreed to end all non-professional competitions.
* The Asian Football Confederation on April 14 postponed all matches and competitions scheduled for May-June until further notice.
* The Brazilian football Confederation suspended all national competitions until further notice.
* Semi-finals of the CAF Champions league (May 1-3) and CAF Confederation Cup (May 8-10) were postponed.
* This year’s International Champions Cup, a pre-season tournament featuring Europe’s top clubs, was cancelled.
* Cameroon has cancelled the rest of its league season and declared leaders PWD Bamenda as champions.
ATHLETICS
* The Diamond League, the elite track and field competition, was forced to cancel its London meeting scheduled for July 4-5. It had previously postponed events in seven cities scheduled between April and June.
* The Paris and Barcelona marathons were postponed.
* The 2020 European Athletics Championship due to take place from Aug. 25-30 were cancelled. (Reuters)
