PARIS – The start of the new Ligue 1 season was postponed until Friday night after Olympique de Marseille said it had shown 4 instances of COVID-19, announced on Tuesday the LFP, the governing framework of French professional football.
“In view of the medical effects transmitted through Olympique de Marseille (…) the LFP has to postpone the Marseille/AS Saint-Etienne Olympic adjustment until 16 or 17 September,” the LFP said in a statement.
The setting is the only one scheduled for Friday, with the rest of the first circular of the Ligue 1 2020/21 fites spread between Saturday and Sunday.
The LFP told clubs last week that it had set up a “COVID committee” to advise on whether to postpone matches.When a club reports more than 3 cases of coronavirus, the PSL’s “COVID protocol” is likely postponed.sent to clubs.
Among the “big five” European football countries, France is the only one to finish its season prematurely due to the pandemic.Paris St Germain won the Ligue 1 title.
The Parisian club and Olympique Lyonnais have the reformatted Champions League semi-finals in red, the first time that two French groups will face each other at this level. Olympique de Marseille is the only winner in France of the highest prize in European football.
Almost 40 players from 11 of Ligue 1’s 20 clubs tried COVID-19, and some in Saint-Etienne.
The Spanish Mediapro, which owns the broadcasting rights of the most productive Ligue 1 matches for the 2020/2021 to 2023/2024 seasons, agreed in early June with TF1, France’s largest personal television operator, to shape a new channel to broadcast the most productive Ligue 1 league matches in the country.
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