UEFA confirm all Champions League and Europa League games next week are POSTPONED amid coronavirus outbreak
- UEFA have announced postponement of all next week’s European matches
- Champions League and Europa League ties will not go ahead for at least a week
- Manchester City, Chelsea, Manchester United and Wolves were all in action
- Draws for the quarter-final of Champions League and Europa League also off
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UEFA have confirmed that all of next week’s Champions League and Europa League matches are OFF as the coronavirus epidemic continues to cause chaos.
Tuesday’s Champions League games between Manchester City and Real Madrid and Juventus and Lyon had already been postponed, but now Wednesday’s ties between Barcelona and Napoli and Bayern Munich and Chelsea have also been scrapped.
Thursday’s Europa League ties will also not go ahead, including the second legs of matches including Manchester United, Wolves and Rangers.
UEFA have announced that all Champions League matches next week have been postponed
Manchester United played on Thursday night but their return leg at home to LASK is now off
In a statement, UEFA said that the decision was made ‘in light of developments due to the spread of COVID-19 in Europe’.
The governing body add that the cancellations also stretch to UEFA Youth League matches scheduled on March 17 and 18, as well as the quarter-final draws for the Champions League and Europa League on March 20.
Manchester United were among the sides in Europa League action on Thursday evening, beating LASK 5-0 away from home, but that looks set to be the final set of fixtures until at least the end of the month.
Europa League has also fallen foul of the coronavirus outbreak and will not be played this week
United played against LASK in front of an empty stadium in Linz, Austria on Thursday night
On Wednesday, Real Madrid put their entire club into quarantine following a positive COVID-19 test on one of their basketball players, while leagues across Europe have been postponing their fixtures for at least two weeks.
The Premier League is yet to join them, but a meeting is scheduled for Friday morning in which it is expected to be announced that the league will be postponed until the start of April.