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UEFA president admits season could be lost as coronavirus pandemic intensifies

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has admitted that the current football season could be ruled void if leagues are unable to resume in some fashion by the end of June.

Virtually all major domestic competitions across Europe are currently suspended amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, as the globe continues to battle against the growing crisis.

This year's Euro 2020 tournament has already been postponed for a year in order to help facilitate the completion of current campaigns, but even that possibility remains up in the air as time passes.

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Teams by and large have professed a desire to see the season completed in order to help preserve integrity, but now Ceferin has acknowledged that the organisation may be forced to scrub results across the board in these extraordinary circumstances if a restart of the game cannot meet an early summer deadline.