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Covid-19: When will the PSL return?

The coronavirus lockdown is on Level 3 in South Africa following president Cyril Ramaphosa and competitive football appears unlikely to return this month.

This despite the go-ahead from Sports Minister Nathi Mthethwa that teams can return to training.

The PSL had always been optimistic of completing the current campaign but they have to move from wanting to complete the season by July 31 to August 31 as confirmed by Dr Irvin Khoza on two weeks ago.

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The players and officials have already undergone the first round of tests - and so far, only 13 confirmed positive cases have been reported across both the PSL and NFD.