USL League One released info about how the 2020 season will be played on July 2nd. I recommend clicking that link for details, but the high level summary is as follows:
- Starting July 18th, the league will play a 20-game, 15-week regular season that concludes in late October;
- Each club is assigned a “regional rival” (in practice, not necessarily regional) with whom they will play four games in the regular season – two home and two away;
- Each club is assigned an omitted opponent with whom they will not play in the regular season;
- Of the nine remaining possible opponents, each club will play a home-and-home series against seven;
- Each club will play the final two possible opponents on its schedule in the final two weeks of the season in one home game and one away game;
- The top two sides from this abbreviated season will meet in a league final held in that big cage from those Nike commercials (or in the higher-seeded team’s home venue – the league didn’t specify).