FIFA IS LOOKING ON HOW OPEN SPORT ACTIVITIES WITH SCHEDULE IMPACTED BY COVID-19 by Covid-19.

FIFA IS LOOKING ON HOW OPEN SPORT ACTIVITIES WITH SCHEDULE IMPACTED BY COVID-19 by Covid-19.

12 May 2020  |  14:30

       The prevalence of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has impacted the world of sports globally, with events either postponed or cancelled by organizers.
             This will have an impact on SuperSport’s ability to broadcast the relevant sporting events. We will continue to monitor the situation and make the necessary changes to our broadcast schedule as developments occur.

       The impacted sports are as per below. Any updates will be made available on SuperSport Blitz, www.supersport.com as well as our social media platforms.

All rescheduled events will be broadcast on SuperSport.

OLYMPIC GAMES

• The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, due to start on July 24, have been postponed until 2021. They will take place next year from July 23 to August 8.

TENNIS

• Wimbledon, scheduled from June 29 to July 12, cancelled

• Roland Garros has been moved from May 24 - June 7, and will now be held from September 20 - October 4

• Indian Wells Tennis 1000 event / 09 - 22 March – cancelled

• The ATP and WTA Miami Open (March 23 through April 5) cancelled 

• The ATP and WTA tennis competitions have extended the suspension of their seasons until June 7. Events affected by the shutdown include the combined ATP/WTA tournaments in Madrid and Rome, the WTA events in Strasbourg and Rabat and ATP events in Munich, Estoril, Geneva and Lyon.

FOOTBALL

• Absa Premiership suspended indefinitely on 23 March. 

• The Euro 2020 Championships have been moved from June-July 2020 to June-July 2021

• English Premier League suspended, will only resume when it is 'safe and appropriate'.

• Champions League suspended until further notice 

• Serie A – All Matches postponed until further notice. LaLiga suspended indefinitely.

• German Bundesliga suspended until further notice 

• Europa League suspended until further notice. 

• International friendlies cancelled: 26 March: Netherlands v USA; 27 March: Wales v Austria, England v Italy, Belgium v Portugal, 29 March: Netherlands v Spain, 30 March: Wales v USA, Switzerland v Belgium, Portugal v Croatia; 31 March: England v Denmark 

• All international matches scheduled for June cancelled

RUGBY

• 2020 Vodacom Super Rugby tournament suspended for the foreseeable future

• The SuperSport Rugby Challenge – scheduled to kick off on the weekend of 24/25 April – has been postponed until further notice

• The Pro14 has been suspended. Final at Cardiff City Stadium, set to take place on June 20, cancelled

• FNB Varsity Cup suspended. Final decision on the fate of the competition to be made at the end of April. 

• Six Nations suspended

• HSBC 7s / Hong Kong / 3 -5 April – Postponed to 16 -18 October

• HSBC 7s / Singapore / 11- 12 April - Postponed to 10 & 11 October

• HSBC 7s / London / 23-24 May - Postponed to September 

• HSBC 7s / Paris / 30-31 May - Postponed to September 

• World Rugby U20 Championship, 28 June to Saturday 18 July, cancelled

CRICKET

• India-South Africa internationals cancelled over virus

• Momentum One Day Cup playoffs (17-23 March) cancelled 

• England's two-match test series in Sri Lanka, originally scheduled for March, has been rescheduled for January 2021. 

• New Zealand one-day cricket tour of Australia abandoned

• Indian Premier League (IPL), originally scheduled to begin on 29 March, postponed indefinitely

Proteas tour to Sri Lanka scheduled to be played in the first half of June and consisting of three one-day internationals and three T20 International matches, postponed.

England's three-match home test series (June 4-8 at The Oval, June 12-16 at Edgbaston, June 25-29 at Lord's)against the West Indies postponed. 

MOTORSPORT

• The season-opening Australian Grand Prix cancelled

• Moto GP / Qatar / 8 March – Cancelled

• IndyCar set for 15 March, cancelled 

• The Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, scheduled for March 22, postponed 

• MotoGP / Thailand / 22 March – Cancelled

• SBK / Qatar / 15 March - Postponed

• Vietnam Formula One Grand Prix, scheduled for April 5, postponed 

• Red Bull MOTOGP of the Americas 3rd to 5th April - rescheduled to 13th to 15th November

• Formula 1 / China / Shanghai / April 19 – postponed

• Dutch Formula 1 Grand Prix / May 3 – postponed

• Spanish Formula 1 Grand Prix / May 10 – postponed

• Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix / May 24 – cancelled

• Azerbaijan Formula 1 Grand Prix / June 7 – postponed

The Argentina MotoGP has been postponed & will now take place from the 20th to the 22nd of November

• Le Mans 24 Hour Race, scheduled for June, was pushed back until September.

• MotoGP / Spain / May 3 - postponed

• French MotoGP, scheduled for May 15-17, postponed

• Italian MotoGP, scheduled for May 31, postponed 

• Catalonia MotoGP, scheduled for June 7, postponed 

• Canadian Formula One Grand Prix, scheduled for June 14, postponed 

• The French Formula One Grand Prix scheduled for 28 June has been cancelled

• German MotoGP, scheduled for June 21, cancelled

• Dutch MotoGP, scheduled for June 28, cancelled

Finnish MotoGP, scheduled for July 12, cancelled

GOLF

• Three US-based major golf championships announced rescheduled 2020 dates Monday in the wake of the British Open being called off until 2021

• This year's Masters tournament, the season's first major golf championship, set to start April 9, is now slated to go ahead from November 12-15  

• The US PGA Championship, the second major on the 2020 golf calendar scheduled for May 14-17, is now set to be staged from August 6-9 at Harding Park in San Francisco

      The US Open has been moved from June to September 17-20, the week before the Ryder Cup clash between Europe and the United States. 

The Players Championship was cancelled after the first round (Mar 12).

    The adjusted 2019-20 US PGA Tour season, which was halted in mid-March, is scheduled to resume without spectators from June 11-15 in Fort Worth, Texas, with the Charles Schwab Challenge that was originally set to be held May 18-24.

           The second event will be the June 18-21 RBC Heritage in South Carolina, which was originally cancelled but will now fill the week vacated by the US Open which was previously moved to September.

• The June 22-28 Travelers Championship in Connecticut and July 2-5 Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit make up the final two events currently set to be played with no spectators.

• All US PGA Tour tournaments cancelled up to the AT&T Byron Nelson (May 4-10). Cancelled tournaments include the Valspar Championship (March 19-22),  Valero Texas Open (March 30-April 5), Zurich Classic of New Orleans (April 20-26) and Wells Fargo Championship (April 27-May 3).The Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship (March 26-29) has been postponed.

• WGC - Dell Technologies Match Play / 26-28 March - cancelled.

• The Canadian Open, originally scheduled to run June 11-14, has been cancelled. 

• Euro Tour / Maybank Championship / Kuala Lumpur / 16 – 19 April - Postponed

• Euro Tour / China Open / Shenzhen / 23 – 26 April - Postponed

• LPGA Tour / Lotte Championship / April 15-18 - postponed

• LPGA Tour / Los Angeles Open / April 23-26 - postponed

• Andalucia Masters (April 30 – May 3) - postponed 

• Euro Tour / GolfSixes Cascais (May 9-10) cancelled 

• Euro Tour / Made in Denmark (May 21-24) postponed 

• LPGA Tour / Honda Thailand / 20 – 23 Feb - Cancelled

• HSBC Women’s World Championship / Singapore / 27 Feb - Cancelled

• LPGA Tour / Blue Bay / Hainan Island / 5 – 8 March - Cancelled

• LPGA Tour / Mediheal Championship / April 30-May 3 - postponed

• US Women's Open moved from June 4-7 to December 10-13

• LPGA Tour / ANA Inspiration moved to September 10-13 

• LPGA Tour / Portland Classic moved to September 17-20

• Women's PGA Championship has been postponed from late June to October 8-11 

• Highlights of the following PGA TOUR Champions events removed from schedule: Rapiscan Systems Classic (March 31), Mitsubishi Electric Classic (April 21), Insperity Invitational (May 5), Regions Tradition (May 12)

CYCLING

• The Tour de France, due to be held from June 27-July 19, postponed to August 29-September 20

• Tirreno-Adriatico /11-17 March - postponed

• ABSA Cape Epic / 15 to 22 March cancelled

• Milan-Sanremo (Monument Classic race) / 21 March – postponed to August 8

• Giro di Sicilia / 1-4 April – postponed

• Lousa (UCI Mountain Bike World Cup opener) / 21-22 March - postponed

• Tour of Flanders on April 5 postponed to October 18

• Tour of the Basque Country April 6-11 postponed 

• Paris-Roubaix (12th April) postponed to October 25 

• Amstel Gold Race April 19 postponed 

• Fleche Wallonne on April 22 postponed 

• Liege-Bastogne-Liege on April 26 postponed to October 4 

• Tour of Romandy 28 April to 3 May cancelled 

• Giro d'Italia race, set for May 9-31, has been postponed to October 3-October 25

• Criterium du Dauphine, scheduled to start in on May 31st, postponed until further notice 

• Tour of Spain (Vuelta), due to start on August 14, will now start on October 20

• Tour of Lombardy now scheduled for October 31.

ATHLETICS / ROAD RUNNING

World Indoor Championships / Nanjing / 13 -15 March - Postponed until 2021
Pyongyang Marathon / 12 April - Cancelled 

             The 124th Boston Marathon, scheduled for April 20, has been postponed to September 14  

The London marathon, which was due to take place on April 26, has been postponed to October 4
The Diamond League was forced to cancel events in London, Zurich and Rabat with the first event provisionally set for Monaco in August.  

         Three Diamond League athletics meetings will now be held in August: in Monaco (Aug 14), Gateshead in England (16), and Stockholm (23). Those would be followed by September meetings in Lausanne, Brussels, Paris, 

Shanghai and possibly Rome or Naples, and in October by meetings in Eugene in the United States, Doha and an unspecified Chinese venue. 

2020 European athletics championships from August 25-30 cancelled 

UFC

• UFC 249, April 19, postponed

GYMNASTICS

• FIG World Cup Artistic in Baku 15 – 16 March cancelled

DIVING

• FINA Diving World Cup – Tokyo (21-26 April) postponed

SAILING

• America’s Cup World Series – Cagliari (April 23-26) cancelled 

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