Having mostly managed to conclude their 2019-20 seasons in full following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Europe's top leagues will return slightly later than usual for the 2020-21 season.
Of the continent's top five leagues, four squeezed the remainder of last term's matches in over the summer, with only France's Ligue 1 opting to prematurely cancel the 2019-20 campaign in April.
The rest - the Premier League in England, Serie A in Italy, Spain's La Liga and Germany's Bundesliga - waited it out and played through June and July in order to fulfil the fixture list.