Xinhua News Agency, Berlin, March 13 (Reporter Liu Wei) affected by the increasingly serious outbreak of the new Crown pneumonia, German football, basketball, volleyball, handball and other professional sports leagues have announced the suspension of the tournament.
The German Football League (DFL) issued an official statement twice a day on the 13th. The first statement said that the Presidium proposed to suspend all matches from March 17 to April 2. On the 16th, a meeting of members attended by 36 clubs of the German and German League matches was held to discuss whether to implement the proposal. This weekend, the Bundesliga league was held in the form of “ghost match” without live audience.
The second statement overthrew part of the content in the previous statement and directly stopped the current round of two-level league which was about to start. On the 11th, the German Football Association has stopped the low-level league matches such as Dec.
The Presidium of the German handball professional league (DHB) met on the 13th and decided that all handball events of all levels in Germany would be postponed until after April 19. This decision was mainly aimed at men’s handball league. Previously, the league had stopped Women’s Handball League A, low-level league, local competitions and youth competitions.
The Presidium of the German basketball Professional League (BBL) and the club held a meeting in Stuttgart on the 12th. After discussion, they unanimously decided to suspend the league from this weekend, but they still did not give up the goal of completing the league. Two weeks later, the alliance and the club will discuss the next countermeasures according to the latest situation.
After consulting with various clubs, the German volleyball professional league (VBL) decided to immediately end the professional league of men’s volleyball team and women’s volleyball team on the 12th. The German Volleyball Association (DVV) decided to suspend low-level league matches and youth matches on the same day.
The German Ice Hockey League (DEL) announced on the 10th that it would end the season ahead of schedule and no longer arrange the playoffs. It is the first German professional sports league to cancel the rest of the season affected by the epidemic.
According to the data released by Robert Koch Institute (German Agency for Disease Control and Prevention) on the 13th, the total number of confirmed cases of covid-19 in Germany rose to 3062, with a total of 5 deaths.