Reports: La Liga Matches Will Be Played Behind Closed Doors Until 2021

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – According to reports, La Liga matches will be played behind closed doors until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

ESPN FC has been told that the clubs in La Liga that fans will not be permitted in matches until 2021.

La Liga would like to resume their season in June.

La Liga's clubs have been told that football matches in Spain will be played behind closed doors until 2021, multiple sources have confirmed to ESPN. pic.twitter.com/LkRt4uMw5Q

— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) April 23, 2020

According to the New York Times, the league has produced a 23-page document outlining the methods players would have to follow in order to start playing games again.

One of the things that La Liga would do is that a few days prior to training, everyone involved would be tested for the coronavirus. The testing would continue throughout the month to make sure that players remain virus free.

Any positive tests will result in that player, and the people he was in contact with, going into quarantine until they are not contagious.

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