Serie A sides will be allowed to return to individual training on 4 May and team training on 18 May after the Italian prime minister announced the first steps in lifting the country's coronavirus lockdown.

 

There are hopes Serie A fixtures could resume between 27 May and 2 June - with an end date for the season of early August.

It will be quite a story if Serie A manages to continue their season with all that has happened in Italy in particular! Serie A was the league above all others that I did not expect to continue. I think what they did in Holland is a bit drastic at this stage as September is still several months away and things could improve before then.

Fifa's chief doctor has warned against restarting the interrupted 2019-20 campaign and suggested governing bodies prepare for action next season instead.

 

Michel d'Hooghe said "as a doctor" he would be "sceptical" about continuing leagues amid the coronavirus pandemic.

BOXING: British Boxing Board of Control "hopeful" professional boxing will resume in July.

CRICKET: The Hundred - the England and Wales Cricket Board's new franchise tournament due to begin on 17 July - is postponed until 2021.

DISABILITY SPORT: The World Para Athletics Championships, which were due to be held in Japan in September 2021, have been rescheduled to 2022.

RUGBY UNION: French rugby union's top two divisions - the Top 14 and Pro D2 - are to be abandoned.

The European Road Cycling Championships in Italy this September have been postponed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Shall we have some good news??

 

Bundesliga is back!! And it’s been far more thrilling to watch this year than the Prem has anyway

@1258021873209786368

 

Shall we have some good news??

 

Bundesliga is back!! And it’s been far more thrilling to watch this year than the Prem has anyway

 

Only if you're not a Liverpool fan!!! :P

@1258021873209786368

 

Shall we have some good news??

 

Bundesliga is back!! And it’s been far more thrilling to watch this year than the Prem has anyway

That is fantastic news to hear.

Five players have tested positive for coronavirus across Spain's top two divisions, La Liga has said.

 

The unnamed players are all asymptomatic and are now in isolation.

 

They will continue to be tested and can only rejoin training when they return two consecutive negative results.

ATHLETICS: The Anniversary Games in London, part of the Diamond League season and scheduled to be held on 4-5 July, are cancelled.

FOOTBALL: Women's Under-20 World Cup in Costa Rica and Panama, postponed from August-September is rescheduled for 20 January-6 February 2021, while Women's Under-17 World Cup in India, originally planned for November, will now be held from 17 February-7 March 2021.

Uefa president Aleksander Cerefin says it has a "concrete plan" for finishing the European season "in August".

 

 

The quarter-finals and semi-finals are expected to be played over two legs.

This season's Challenge Cup final has been postponed after the Rugby Football League conceded it will not take place at Wembley on 18 July.

La Liga can resume from 8 June, says Spain's prime minister Pedro Sanchez.

 

The league's president Javier Tebas said he had hoped Spain's top flight would restart on 12 June, although La Liga is yet to confirm a restart date.

 

La Liga players started training in groups of no more than 10 at the start of the week.

The government has given the go-ahead for elite athletes to return to contact training - when individual sports deem it safe to do so.

 

The government advises beginning with clusters of two or three athletes, then progressing to groups of four to 12 and ultimately full team training.

 

It is up to individual sports to assess the risk and consult athletes, coaches and support staff.

 

The Premier League will discuss the guidance at a meeting on Wednesday.

BOXING & MMA: Fights will return to Las Vegas behind closed doors from 30 May after Nevada state authorities lift a ban on combat sports.

FOOTBALL: Premier League clubs unanimously vote to resume contact training.

NETBALL: The 2020 Superleague season is terminated, with only three full rounds of fixtures played before it was suspended.

TENNIS: A series of domestic tennis tournaments will be held behind closed doors at the National Tennis Centre in July.

ALL SPORT: The UK government approves the return of domestic competitive sport behind closed doors from 1 June

I surmise you've heard that the Premier League will resume play 17 June, and it's been advertised here in the US...

DISABILITY SPORT: The World Para Athletics European Championships, originally scheduled to take place in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 2-7 June 2020, will take place in 2021.

GYMNASTICS: The European Gymnastics Championships, which had been due to take place in April/May, are rescheduled for December in Baku. The men's event will take place from 9 to 13 December, while the women's event - which had been originally set for Paris - will be from 17 to 20 December.

GOLF: The Evian Championship - which was set to be the Ladies' Professional Golf Association's first major of the year - is cancelled.

MOTORSPORT: The Wales Rally GB, which was due to be held from 29 October to 1 November, is cancelled.

New quarantine exemptions will allow major sporting events, as well as TV and film productions, to go ahead this summer, the government has said.

 

Some sports teams and production crews will not have to quarantine upon arrival in England if they are essential to the event or production.

 

The scheme gives the green light for Formula One, international football, golf and snooker tournaments to return.

 

Ministers said darts, horse racing and other sports are expected to follow.