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Permanently suspend or complete the season. The dilemma that the health and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus has unleashed in sports competitions around the world has been resolved on Thursday night for Spanish rugby. And with both solutions by the same body . The Federation has decided that the men's Division of Honor league should not continue and, however, that the women's Iberdrola League will have to be completed.

In its opinion, the Federation's Delegate Commission decides on all competitions and decides in general terms that they have ended. But it does not declare them null. In the men's league, the team that was leading by a narrow margin when the competition was interrupted, the VRAC Quesos Entrepinares de Valladolid , was proclaimed champion . The title was not resolved. The last five days of the regular phase and the quarterfinals, the semifinals and the playoff final remained to be played. Hernani descends (last in the table) and ascends without playing the Getxo RT playoffs, which would be the first in a hypothetical joint classification of the three groups in the second category. Promotion is also removed.

It so happens that more than a month ago, all the Honor Division clubs decided to suspend their activities for this season and demanded that the Federation end the competition. Along with the priority of the health crisis and the slowdown in the preparation of confinement, the coronavirus had a very hard impact on its semi-professional structures and on the economy of its sponsors. Some presented an ERTE, others facilitated the return to their countries from their foreign players.

The Federation has finally made the end of the season official "given that it has been concluded that no more matches can be played." From there, he could choose between validating the partial results or declaring the season null ; Both possibilities involved benefited and disadvantaged teams.

What is striking is the contrast in the criterion on the female competition with respect to the male . In the Iberdrola Women's League, the regular phase had already ended, but the competition will have to continue. The Corteva Cocos de Sevilla, winner of the regular phase, is not proclaimed champion. There will be semi-finals and final, according to the Federation statement, "once according to the measures decreed by the Government, you can play rugby again and on the dates determined by the Delegate Commission." And the same decision is made on the promotion tie.

The coronavirus crisis had already led to the postponement from April until after the summer of the Copa del Rey final , which must be played by Silverstorm El Salvador de Valladolid and Lexus Alcobendas Rugby. And in the same way, the delay until a new date of the match initially scheduled for May 29 at the Wanda Metropolitano between the Spanish team and the Classics All Blacks.

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