2019-20 Swiss Super League set to resume on June 8, however clubs still fear they’ll go bust

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2019-20 Swiss Super League is to return on June 8

Another top European league could be back in operation in 39 days.

On Wednesday, Switzerland confirmed plans to restart the 2019-20 Swiss Super League season on June 8.

The Swiss were one of the first countries in Europe to stop playing football due to the spread of Covid-19. There’s been no football since February 28.

At that time, there were only 20 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country.

 

Training & all matches will be played behind closed doors

On Wednesday, the Swiss Federal Council confirmed that the Swiss Super League football is allowed to resume on June 8th behind closed doors provided there is no worsening of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Moreover, it’s also been confirmed that matches will continue behind closed doors until August, at the earliest.

According to the Johns Hopkins University, Switzerland have record 29,407 Covid-19 positive cases, while there have been 1,716 deaths from the virus.

Swiss clubs are scheduled to return to training on May 11.

To begin with, training will be limited to groups of 5.

 

Swiss football remains in major financial trouble: FC Zurich could go bust

Many will be celebrating the plans to resume football in Switzerland.

The Swiss are currently poised to be one of the first European leagues to restart after the Covid-19 outbreak following Germany.

And yet, the impact of banning fans from matches is set to have a major economic impact on all teams in the league.

In Blick on Thursday, FC Zurich president Ancillo Canepa has confirmed that ghost games will cost the league around 20 million Swiss Francs (a little more than 16 million pounds).

The FC Zurich president also said:

As long as we don’t know how football will be financed, the question is whether we can continue playing at all.

I do not want to comment publicly (on how long FC Zurich can survive). But as with most clubs, our continuation is not guaranteed. 

 

What else you need to know…

While provisions have been laid out regarding the Swiss Super League, it’s unclear whether the second division – Challenge League – will resume.

That’s left Lausanne-Sport in a precarious position. They are 15-points clear at the top of the Challenge League.

As for the Swiss Super League, each club in the 10-team division has 13 matches to play this season.

When the league stopped, St Gallen (45 points) lead the league ahead of Young Boys on goal difference. Basel are third, five points behind the leaders.

 

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