By Akinwale Kasali
Paris Saint Germain Football Club has been crowned French Ligue Champion for the 2019/2020 Football Season despite the non completion of the expected matches for the Club to be crowned Champions due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
PSG was awarded the league title after the termination of the French league season following a directive from the French Prime Minister that all sporting activities will be suspended till September.
This is the French club’s seventh title in eigth years.
The LFP’s (Ligue de Football Professionnel) plan before the Prime Minister’s decision was to restart the league in June as the lockdown in France was to be lifted on May 11 but the political leader’s address to the national assembly stopped the plan from fruition.
As a result of the points per game classification used by the LFP, Lyon is set to miss the UEFA Champions League for the first time since 1997 with Marseille and Rennes securing Champions League spots for next season. Meanwhile, Lille, Reims and Nice have booked their places in the Europa League for next season.
On the other hand, Amiens and Toulouse have been relegated to Ligue 2 with Lorient and Lens gaining promotion to Ligue 1.
The Dutch Eredivise League has ,however, been cancelled.
Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte has banned all professional football games until September. The Dutch FA voted to, officially, end the 2019 season, in which there will be no promotion and relegation to, and from the Dutch first division.
Also, the country’s champions will not be crowned with Ajax and AZ Alkmaar being top of the table. The two teams are tied at 56 points but the Amsterdam team has a better goal difference.
Although UEFA has announced that they expect all domestic seasons to be completed, and will issue guidelines to associations which decide to end their campaigns early.
It’s unlikely that La Liga will go the same path. It is expected that the Spanish league will be over by August as the Champions League is meant to be played that month.
As a reminder, Belgium was the first European country to end their league. Unlike the Eredivisie, Belgian First Division A, named Club Brugge as champions as they were topping the league.
France, however, became the third country to call off its football season after Belgium’s Jupiler Pro League and Netherlands’ Eredivisie.
The German Bundesliga which had been planned to start in May is, however, facing uncertainty.
The Bundesliga will have to wait another week to find out when it can resume its season behind closed doors after Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state Premiers delayed a decision on the matter.
The German Football League (DFL) had been hoping for the government to give the green light and end a two-month suspension but Chancellor Merkel told a Thursday press conference that any decision on when sports activities could resume would be taken on May 6.
Football has been suspended in Germany since mid-March due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
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