Having only just handed out the European Cup - three months later than planned - UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin is watching anxiously as the new season is already being disrupted by coronavirus cases.
The season should end with the European Championship being played in June and July 2021. But that is also how last season should have been completed before the pandemic forced UEFA in March to postpone its quadrennial event.
Postponing Euro 2020 has already cost UEFA 100 million, Ceferin estimates. The financial impact could be greater on UEFA and European football nations if there is further disruption to the staging of the tournament. “This is one of the most challenging things about the qualifying for now,” Ceferin said. “But if the governments will react in a way that they don't allow teams to play, then we will have to think that the teams from those countries will have to play on a neutral ground.”
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