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The Ultimate Guide to When (Or If) European Leagues Will Resume

There's a new target date for decisions to be made about future decisions. Such is life for sports leagues during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown.

UEFA, which has been busy moving the goalposts and adjusting for changes in widespread thinking, issued a memo to its 55 member associations Tuesday saying it wants plans for when they plan to resume–or if they plan to cancel–their domestic seasons by May 25. That doesn't mean leagues need to be prepared to start by May 25, they just to have a plan in place. That's an important distinction.

Everything, of course, is subject to change and ultimately in the hands of government and public health officials, but the European governing body is clearly getting the itch to have somewhat of a set calendar to chart the course for the remainder of the 2019-20 seasons and the start of 2020-2021.