The Spanish La Liga may exceed the date of June 30 to end the season, and in the event of a permanent stop due to the Covid-19, the teams currently classified in the first four places will qualify for the Champions League, announced the Spanish federation. this Thursday.
"We authorize the exceptional extension of the deadlines to end the current season and start the next one, beyond June 30", informed the Spanish football federation (RFEF) this Thursday via press release, after a meeting of the delegated committee ( responsible for the management of professional championships).
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- 20 Minutes Sport (@ 20minutesSport) March 12, 2020Even if the RFEF still hopes that the 2019-2020 season will be able to end, it has also considered that the suspension of the latter (due to the pandemic of new coronavirus) is not lifted, or that the season is not completed when UEFA demands to obtain the names of the teams qualified for European competitions.
In this case, the RFEF declared that these teams will be determined "according to the classification of the last full day played (with the same number of matches for the 20 teams)". If the Spanish championship makes its final decision, the classification will therefore be established on the basis of the 27th day, contested on March 8th.
Third qualifier for Europa League on hold
Thus, FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, Seville FC and Real Sociedad would qualify for the Champions League, and Getafe and Atlético Madrid for the Europa League. The third team to qualify for the Europa League will depend on the King's Cup final between Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad, which has also been postponed indefinitely due to the pandemic.
If the final is disputed, the winner will qualify for the Europa League, unless he is already one of the six "European" teams, in which case the last team to qualify would be the team currently ranked seventh in La Liga, Valencia CF .
La Liga is surprised by the Federation's position
If the final is not contested, the last qualifier for the Europa League will be Athletic Bilbao as a finalist in the national cup, since Real Sociedad would already be qualified by its classification.
La Liga was however surprised that a list of clubs qualified for UEFA competitions had been drawn up by the federation without the announcement of the final cessation of the championship having yet taken place, and considers that the federation does not have the skills required to take such a decision without the approval of the organizer of the Spanish professional championship.
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