The rapid spread of the Coronavirus has seen the world sporting federations cancel major events as precautions intensify to control the spread of the lethal disease.
These are the cancelled events and tournaments.
12 March:
- BASKETBALL: NBA suspended until further notice after a Utah Jazz player tested positive for coronavirus.
- FOOTBALL: Spanish top flight La Liga suspended for at least the next two rounds of matches.
- FOOTBALL: Real Madrid first team quarantined after a Real Madrid basketball player, who shares training facilities with the La Liga club, tested positive for the virus.
- FOOTBALL: Three Leicester players self-isolating after showing symptoms of coronavirus.
- FOOTBALL: Sampdoria striker Manolo Gabbiadini tests positive for coronavirus.
- TENNIS: Miami Open starting on 23 March is cancelled.
- TENNIS: ATP suspended for six weeks.
- FORMULA ONE: McLaren withdraw from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix after a team member tested positive for coronavirus.
- FOOTBALL: Danish Football Association cancel all football activities in the country for two weeks.
- BASKETBALL: International Basketball Federation (FIBA) suspends all competitions from 13 March.
- BASKETBALL: Euroleague Basketball competitions suspended.
- FOOTBALL: Bosnia-Herzegovina make a request to Uefa to postpone the home Euro 2020 play-off semi-final against Northern Ireland on 26 March.
- ICE HOCKEY: Great Britain’s two matches with Poland due to take place on 17 and 18 April are cancelled.
11 March:
- FOOTBALL: Manchester City’s Premier League match with Arsenal on 11 March is postponed as a “precautionary measure” – and several Gunners players put into self-isolation.
- FOOTBALL: The Europa League ties between Sevilla and Roma in Spain and Inter Milan’s match against Getafe on 12 March have been postponed.
- FOOTBALL: Rangers’ Europa League game at Bayer Leverkusen on 19 March and the Eintracht Frankfurt-Basel tie on 12 March in the same competition will be played behind closed doors.
- MOTORSPORT: Formula E race in Jakarta on 6 June is cancelled. It is the third race this season to be postponed.
- FORMULA ONE: Two members of the Haas Formula 1 team and one from McLaren are in self-isolation after being tested for coronavirus at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
- GOLF: European Tour event Hero Indian Open due to take place from March 19-22 is postponed. The Czech Masters, scheduled from August 20-23 is cancelled, along with two tournaments in the Czech Republic in May along with one in Slovakia in July on the secondary Challenge Tour.
- FOOTBALL: French League Cup final Paris St Germain between Lyon on 4 April is postponed.
- FOOTBALL: Timo Hubers, who plays for German second tier side Hannover tests positive for coronavirus.
- GYMNASTICS: The International Gymnastics Federation postpones three World Cup competitions until June.
- DARTS: The cancelled European Darts Open in Leverkusen in Germany is replaced by a Players Championship weekend in Milton Keynes on March 28 and 29.
- CRICKET: Surrey’s pre-season training camp at the ICC Academy in Dubai, due to begin on 17 March, has been cancelled.
- FOOTBALL: Spanish Cup final between Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad in Seville on 18 April is postponed.
- TENNIS: The Fed Cup finals in Budapest from 14-18 April and other Fed Cup play-offs ties on the weekend of 17 and 18 April are postponed.
- SPORT: Argentina has cancelled all international sporting events due to be held in the country in March. The South American Swimming Championships, World Cup fencing events, Olympic boxing qualifiers and athletics have been affected.
- BASKETBALL: The NBA match between Golden State Warriors and Brooklyn Nets will be played behind closed doors in San Francisco.
- FOOTBALL: Seattle Sounders against FC Dallas on 21 March in the MLS has been postponed.
- ICE SKATING: The World Figure Skating Championships, scheduled to take place in for Montreal from 16-22 March, have been cancelled.
- TAEKWONDO: The European Senior Championships in Zagreb from 7-10 May have been postponed, along with the European Olympic and Para-taekwondo qualification event, which was due to take place in April in Moscow.
- BASKETBALL: The NCAA college basketball tournament, known as March Madness, taking places in various cities across the USA, will be closed to paying spectators.
- FOOTBALL: Juventus and Italy defender Daniele Rugani tests positive for virus.
- MOTORSPORT: World Superbike organisers said that the Spanish round of the series, scheduled for 27-29 March, has been postponed until 23-25 October.
- FOOTBALL: Four-team tournament in Qatar from 26-30 March involving Belgium, Portugal, Croatia and Switzerland is cancelled.
10 March:
- FOOTBALL: The Italian football federation (FIGC) said the Serie A season may not finish because of the coronavirus outbreak, with alternative options including staging play-offs, not having a champion for 2019-20 or declaring the current standings final.
- FOOTBALL: Chelsea’s Champions League last-16 second leg at Bayern Munich on 18 March will be played behind closed doors.
- FOOTBALL: Nottingham Forest confirm their owner Evangelos Marinakis has coronavirus.
- FOOTBALL: Manchester United’s Europa League last-16 first leg at Austrian side LASK on 12 March to be played behind closed doors.
- FOOTBALL: The Republic of Ireland’s Euro 2020 play-off against Slovakia on 26 March will be played behind closed doors.
- FOOTBALL: Matches in the top two divisions in Spain and France to be played behind closed doors for at least the next two weeks.
- FOOTBALL: Barcelona’s Champions League game against Napoli on 18 March will be played behind closed doors at the Nou Camp.
- FOOTBALL: Borussia Monchengladbach’s Bundesliga game against Cologne on Wednesday to be played behind closed doors, as will five of nine matches in the league at the weekend.
- FOOTBALL: Poland’s top-flight the Ekstraklasa to be played behind closed doors until further notice.
- FOOTBALL: Japan’s J League is suspended until at least 3 April having initially postponed matches until 18 March.
- ROWING: Two World Rowing Cups, the European Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta and the final Paralympic Qualification Regatta, all due to be held in Italy between 10 April-May 10, have been cancelled.
- RUGBY LEAGUE: It is announced that Saturday’s Super League game between Catalans Dragons and Leeds Rhinos will take place behind closed doors.
- TABLE TENNIS: International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) says April’s ITTF World Tour Japan Open is postponed. It hopes to hold the event later in 2020.
- WINTER SPORT: GB Alpine Championships 2020 which were due to be held in Tignes, France between 29 March and 10 April have been cancelled
9 March:
- FOOTBALL: Olympiakos v Wolves and Sevilla v Roma in the Europa League, scheduled to be played on 12 March, will take place behind closed doors.
- SPORT: All sport at all levels in Italy is to be suspended until at least 3 April, the country’s prime minister has announced.
- RUGBY UNION: The Six Nations match between France and Ireland, scheduled for 14 March, is postponed – Italy v England, initially set for the same day, was postponed four days earlier.
- RUGBY UNION: The Women’s Six Nations fixture between Wales and Scotland is postponed after a Scottish player tests positive for the virus.
- TENNIS: Indian Wells, a combined ATP and WTA event which is one of the most prestigious tournaments outside of the Grand Slams, is cancelled two days before the main draw matches were due to start.
- FOOTBALL: The Romanian Football Federation announces that all league matches will be played behind closed doors until further notice and ticket sales for the 2021 European Under-21 Championship qualifier between Romania and Denmark on 31 March are suspended.
- BASEBALL: Japanese officials postpone the start of the professional baseball league season, scheduled for 20 March.
- FOOTBALL: The Asian qualifiers for the Qatar World Cup in 2022, due to be played on 23-31 March and 1-9 June, are postponed.
- FOOTBALL: Paris St-Germain’s Champions League last-16 match against Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday will be played behind closed doors.
- CYCLING: Organisers of the Paris-Nice race said the event will now be ‘behind closed doors’.
- SPORT: The government says there is ‘no rationale’ for cancelling sport events in the UK .
- WINTER SPORT: The Italian Winters Sports Federation has suspended all sporting activity across its disciplines, including skiing, snowboarding and biathlon due to the coronavirus outbreak.
- SNOOKER: The attendance in the arena for the Gibraltar Open, which starts on 11 March, will be limited to 100 people as a precautionary measure.
- JUDO: The International Judo Federation said that all World Judo Tour events were cancelled until the end of April.
- BOXING: Francesco Patera vs Devis Boschiero, due to take place on 27 March in Verona, Italy, for the vacant interim WBA World Lightweight Title was postponed.
8 March
- FORMULA 1: The Bahrain Grand Prix from 20-22 March will be held behind closed doors.
- FOOTBALL: Uefa has banned pre-match handshakes between players and officials in all its competitions until further notice.
- FOOTBALL: All Bulgarian league matches over next two rounds will be played behind closed doors and all sporting events in the Pleven and Gabrovo regions of the country will be postponed.
- SPORT: The Greek government announces that that all professional sports events for the next two weeks will be played without spectators.
7 March
- ATHLETICS: The Barcelona Marathon, which was scheduled for 15 March, has been postponed until 25 October.
- ICE HOCKEY: The 2020 IIHF Women’s World Championship, due to be held in Canada between 31 March and 10 April, is cancelled.
6 March
- ATHLETICS: The World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland, which were to be held on 29 March, are postponed until 17 October.
- FORMULA E: The Rome E-Prix, scheduled for 4 April, is postponed.
- CYCLING: One-day classic Milan-San Remo, scheduled for 21 March, is postponed.
- GOLF: The European Tour’s Kenya Open, due to take place between 12-15 March, is postponed.
- SKIING: The Alpine Skiing World Cup finals scheduled for 18-22 March in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, is cancelled.
- GYMNASTICS: The Gymnastics World Cup event in Doha, Qatar, between 18-21 March will be held behind closed doors.
- SPORT: Governing bodies and broadcasters called to a government meeting on 9 March to discuss the staging of events behind closed doors if outbreak worsens and mass gatherings are banned.
- RUGBY UNION: Scotland Women’s Six Nations match with France is postponed after a home player contracts coronavirus.
- SPORT: Saudi Arabia suspends public attendance at all sports events starting on 7 March.
- FOOTBALL: Paris St-Germain’s league fixture at Strasbourg is postponed.
