In March for
The start of the lockout caused all the professional sports leagues in the world to suspend all games. By mid-May the new pneumonia had subsided and the European soccer leagues began to plan the reopening of their leagues and finished the remaining matches as quickly as possible. We have seen the emergence of champions in the major European leagues during this period of "catching up", such as the
Bayern
München or Munich, capital of Bavaria, Germany
Successfully winning eight consecutive league titles and
Liverpool (England)
Finally, after a 30-year absence, the English top-flight championship was won for the first time.
England Premier Soccer League
The champion of the league! Here at Blue Cannonball we also congratulate them and wish them well.
With the exception of the major European leagues, leagues with a single-year format try to shorten their matches as much as possible and then select a champion. For example, in the Korean K-League, the 12 teams in the K1 League played a three-round regular season tournament in previous years, followed by the championship and
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The final round robin will be played to determine the champion and relegated teams. But after the league kicked off it was decided that just the regular season would be executed in a home-and-away round robin and then the championship and relegation groups would be decided.
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Groups. The V1 League, the only league in the world that is open to fans for the time being, is also similar to the Korean league in that it is divided into a championship group and a
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The final rankings will be contested by the Groups. Of course, the Taiwan Corporate Soccer League is one of the rare occasions when a league can be completed without having to reduce the number of matches, which is very fortunate.
As for North America, which is separated from Asia by the Pacific Ocean, most of the leagues are played on a single-year system. Although there is not much improvement in the epidemic in the US, the US has already started to restart its economy to revitalize its tired market. Back to the US sports leagues.
It was announced that most of the teams would gather on July 31, 2020 at Disney in Orlando to play a centralized game and then compete in a playoff to determine the 2020 champion. In
Before a final decision has been tapped, another U.S. sports league - the United States
national soccer team
Major League Soccer (MLS) has launched a rematch program! It's the program that starts with
World Cup
For reference, take a month to decide the overall winner of this year's 2020 season!
In fact, this year's MLS is quite poor, because 2020 is the league ushered in the 25th season, from the 1996 founding year of 10 teams to the current boom to 26 teams, originally through the 25th anniversary of the morale of the soccer fever can be in the United States to a higher level before the impact of the epidemic of new crown pneumonia, resulting in the start of the game only to the second round of the situation announced the lockout. It was also another massive lockout after the game was suspended in 2001 due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On June 10, 2020, league management announced that the MLS IS BACK Championship would be a 26-day, 54-race tournament, to be played behind closed doors. This particular tournament will be held in conjunction with the
The same option was chosen to run from July 8, 2020 to August 11, 2020 at Disney's ESPN Sports Complex in Orlando for the group and elimination rounds. The league's 26 teams will be divided into six groups based on their divisions (three in the East and three in the West) and then the results of the tournament will select the top 16 teams to advance to the elimination rounds.
On June 11, 2020, the league hosted the group draw online. Due to the fact that the East and West divisions (14 teams in the East and 12 in the West) were not evenly matched, it resulted in this year's addition, Nashville SC, being swapped out of what would have been the West's group into the East's group. In terms of group assignments, all five groups were four teams, except for Group A, which was six teams. In the draw, six teams were seeded (three in the East and three in the West), with Orlando City SC seeded in the East as the "host nation". The remaining teams are Atlanta United (East), Toronto FC (East), Los Angeles FC (West), Seattle Sounders (West) and Real Salt Lake (West).
After the draw, the International Myamy CF team was automatically selected to form the A team for the opening match with Orlando City SC. The other teams' group assignments can be seen in the chart below.
According to the chart above, although you see that there are six teams in Group A but they all just play three games. Once the group stage has been played, the top two teams in each group will go straight to
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Elimination round. The remaining four knockout teams will be selected after the best group has finished third. In the knockout stage, the league will have three days to complete the Round of 16, followed by three days to complete the Round of Eight. The semifinals and finals will be played within a week, with the winner of the tournament being awarded the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League.
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Seats.
