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The Executive Committee of the UEFA, Meeting online this Thursday, he approved the guidelines on the eligibility of clubs to participate in next season’s European competitions, according to which he again “strongly” recommends ending the leagues and, when it is impossible for the coronaviru pandemics, ensures that it will require the federations in question to select the teams based on the sports merits in the 2019/20 campaign.
In this sense, the UEFA, specifies that “the team selection procedure must be based on objective, transparent and non-discriminatory principles”.
The Committee received updates from the Working Groups established with the European Association of Clubs (ECA), leagues (EL) and FIFPRO Europe and First, it found that the two scenarios examined by the Calendar Working Group foresee that national football begins before the club competitions of the UEFA, with one trying to carry out the competitions in parallel and the other ending the national matches before the resumption of the matches of the UEFA in August.
And after analyzing also the work of the newly created medical subgroup, led by the professor Tim Meyer, that examines health issues related to returning to football and that works alongside the ECA and the leagues, to develop guidelines that conform to the best protocols, the Committee designed the guidelines in view of the clear difficulties in competing in domestic tournaments, as for example they have already announced Belgium, Scotland and the Netherlands.
“The Committee acknowledges the problems raised and approved the Guidelines on the principles of eligibility for club competitions of the
UEFA 2020/21 “, indicates in a statement, in which it specifies that these” reflect the principle that admission to club competitions of the
UEFA is always based on sporting merit. ”
Thus “the UEFA urges Federations and National Leagues to explore all possible options to play all major national competitions by giving access to the club competitions of the UEFA to its natural conclusion. ”
However, he stresses that “the health of the players, the spectators and all those who participate in soccer, as well as the general public, must remain the main concern at this time.”
The UEFA understands that “the ideal scenario, if the pandemic situation allows, is for the currently suspended competitions to be terminated allowing clubs to qualify for club competitions in the UEFA for sporting merit in its original format, “but if this is not possible,” it would be preferable for the suspended national competitions to be restarted in a different format, so as to make it easier for clubs to qualify for sporting merit. ”
The Committee notes that while federations and leagues try to complete the competitions – they will have until May 27 to present their plan – “they could have legitimate reasons to prematurely end their national competitions.”
This could be caused by “the existence of an official order prohibiting sporting events, so that national competitions cannot be completed before a date that allows the current season to be completed in time before the next begins”, as well as by “Insurmountable economic problems that make it impossible to end the season because it would jeopardize the long-term financial stability of the national competition and / or the clubs.”
In the event that a league cannot terminate for such legitimate reasons the
UEFA will require the federation to select teams for the 2020/21 club competitions “based on sporting merit in 2019/20 national competitions.”
This confirms the criteria announced weeks ago by the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, on access to European competitions for the 2020-21 campaign if the current one does not close, and prevailing the current league classification and the final of King Cup, It is still not played.
I mean, they would go to the Champions League Barcelona, Real Madrid, Seville, Real Sociedad; and to the Europa League, Getafe and Atlético de Madrid, toother than the champion or Cup finalist in the case are not already classified for the ‘major’ competition.
It specifies that “the team selection procedure must be based on objective, transparent and non-discriminatory principles. National and League Federations, otherwise, they must have the ability to decide the final positions in their domestic competitions, taking into account the specific circumstances of each competition. ”
In addition to that “the final determination of the eligible seats for the club competitions of the UEFA It should be confirmed by the competent and relevant bodies at the national level. ”
The UEFA warns that “it reserves the right to refuse or evaluate the admission of any team proposed by a National Federation to a national competition ended prematurely, particularly when: the national competitions have not been terminated prematurely for the reasons stated in these guidelines of the UEFA or for any other legitimate public health reason; the teams were selected in accordance with a non-objective, transparent and non-discriminatory procedure, so that the selected clubs could not be considered classified for their sporting merits; there is a public perception of injustice in the team ranking. ”
On the other hand, despite the postponement to 2020 the Euro Cup 2020 mwill have this denomination, with which the UEFA You will be able to keep your original vision of celebrating the competition’s 60th anniversary; “will serve to remember how the entire European football family came together to respond to the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficult moments that Europe and the world had to pass in 2020 “and the commitment to make a sustainable tournament is ratified” and not to generate an additional amount of waste, since when the tournament was postponed a large amount of material with the brand had already been produced, and the change of the name of the event would have meant the destruction and again the manufacture of such articles “.
Regarding the European sub’21, the Executive Committee will make a final decision on their relocation or postponement at its next meeting, on May 27, after receiving the report of the National Competitions Committee.
EFE
