quelhar wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 21:53
Not really major news, but quite funny: Following one Prague party with (at least) one girl with COVID, B squads of Sparta Praha and Bohemians and U19 squads of Dukla Praha and Bohemians have now COVID cases... Not affecting any season, since now it is preseason for all mentioned teams, but maybe a hint of things to come during next season...
quelhar wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 21:53
Not really major news, but quite funny: Following one Prague party with (at least) one girl with COVID, B squads of Sparta Praha and Bohemians and U19 squads of Dukla Praha and Bohemians have now COVID cases... Not affecting any season, since now it is preseason for all mentioned teams, but maybe a hint of things to come during next season...
Not intentionally, otherwise players from Příbram would surely attend At this point Příbram is the likeliest club to be relegated, but if the remaining two matches in relegation group would not be possible to play due to COVID, then noone is relegated. Since the last round match is Karviná - Příbram where it is quite likely that who loses will be relegated, it would be a win-win for both if this match could not be played
Firnen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 15:17
They postponed the matches again? Seriously now?
Yeah, I expected it later, but it surely seemed likely the whole time. A new covid case appeared today in Opava football club, local authorities sent the whole A squad to quarantine, so no more matches this season.
This means according to rules agreed on by clubs a few days ago, that noone is relegated and top two clubs from FNL are promoted (Pardubice, Brno). This is incredibely painful for Dukla Praha who would be promoted if the last two rounds would be played, regardless of their results. So they were promoted for like a week and today they learned that they will stay in FNL.
Good luck finishing the league next season with these stupid rules, that the whole squad has to quarantine for 2 weeks if a player is infected. Not only Czech Republic, but Russia, Romania and other leagues too.
I understand very well that you have to be careful with this virus, but there definitely have to be some changes in the “quarantine-rules“. You can‘t play a league like this, and you can‘t even think of playing EC.
It‘s difficult and some clubs will have some disadvantages if important players catch the virus. But it is what it this, these times will go by. An exception is when nearly the whole team catches the virus, I think Dinamo Bukarest has 19 cases. Then things get really difficult.
The problem is, that this is not something the league have any influence over. And it is also not something the central government can control. Local authorities in each district have the final say about whether it is necessary to put the whole squad to quarantine or not. In different districts you may end up with different results to the same situations. Not to mention that it is easier to corrupt local authorities than central ones...
I agree that it is at this point unlikely that next season will be completed. But also, a lot of people believe that this is a consequence of rather stupid rules set up by the league, which encouraged clubs fighting to avoid relegation to search for ways how not to finish all matches because then all of them are safe for next season.
The league will likely end up in a quite comical situation when there will be no final standings but Slavia still be recognized as czech champion. Also of course nothing changes with regards to clubs qualified for european cups.
The league committee today confirmed what I wrote earlier. The season is over, the league will remain unfinished and there are no official final standings for the league. However, Slavia Praha is recognized as champion of the season, since all matches have been played in the title group. The clubs qualified for European cups are confirmed (Slavia Praha, Plzeň, Sparta Praha, Jablonec, Liberec).
Next season of the top league will be played with 18 clubs (all participants in this season + Pardubice and Brno), next season of FNL (second tier) will be played with 14 clubs with the aim to return to 16 - 16 once this season is finished (3 clubs relegated, 1 promoted).
Source material (in czech): https://www.lfafotbal.cz/clanek/284-lig ... ik-2019-20
Now the disciplinary committee of the league is looking into the behaviour of people in Opava football club and might issue a fine for the club or even up to 15 points deduction for next season if they find that they didn't take appropriate measures to avoid infection in the club.
Rumours are that the covid-positive player actually lives in Karviná, where was a huge hotspot of cases, and kept training in the club (Opava) for several days after knowing he might be positive - and this was the reason why local authorities needed to put the whole squad into quarantine.
For Opava even like 6 points deduction would result into very likely relegation next year.
quelhar wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 16:11
Now the disciplinary committee of the league is looking into the behaviour of people in Opava football club and might issue a fine for the club or even up to 15 points deduction for next season if they find that they didn't take appropriate measures to avoid infection in the club.
Rumours are that the covid-positive player actually lives in Karviná, where was a huge hotspot of cases, and kept training in the club (Opava) for several days after knowing he might be positive - and this was the reason why local authorities needed to put the whole squad into quarantine.
For Opava even like 6 points deduction would result into very likely relegation next year.
OK this should not become the norm. We already saw it in Austria. Teams losing points because they do not follow health laws should not be happening.
Austria and Czech rep. are two totally different cases. In Austria club broke the rules, because they wanted to play football and win.
In Czech case club broke the rules, because they wanted not to play football, terminated the league and avoid relegation.
ffero wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2020 17:02
Austria and Czech rep. are two totally different cases. In Austria club broke the rules, because they wanted to play football and win.
In Czech case club broke the rules, because they wanted not to play football, terminated the league and avoid relegation.
Oh he did it on purpose?
But again, I will say the same I said in Austria : the blame is to Federation and Government that say "no football if someone breaks the health rules".
