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The Danish Superliga will resume competition on May 28th.

Martes 12 de Mayo del 2020

The Danish Superliga will resume competition on May 28th.

The Danish Superliga will resume competition on May 28, two and a half months after being suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic and without spectators, announced the Danish Professional Clubs Association on Monday.

The Danish Superliga will resume competition on May 28, two and a half months after being suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic and without spectators, announced the Danish Professional Clubs Association on Monday.

The announcement was expected after last Friday the Danish Government authorized the immediate return of professional sports, as part of the second phase of the public life reopening.

It will be the third European league to resume competition after the Faroe Islands league, an autonomous territory under Danish sovereignty, and the German Bundesliga, which will start on May 16.

The AGF-Randers, postponed match of matchday 21, will be the only game on the 28th, and the next day matchday 25 will begin, the penultimate of the regular phase, followed by ten more rounds of playoffs, in which the 14 teams will be divided into two groups, for the title and for relegation.

The last matchday will be held on July 26, and the competition will end three days later with a match to decide the last spot to compete in European tournaments.

Throughout this week, it will be decided how the end of the competition will be played in the Second Division.

"As long as it is not possible to have spectators in the stadiums, match times will be changed to make them as accessible as possible for fans. This only applies until it is possible to have public again," according to a statement.

Midtjylland leads the table with 62 points, twelve more than Copenhagen, the reigning champion.

Denmark, with a population of 5.7 million inhabitants, has so far registered 10,711 positive cases of COVID-19 and 533 deaths, according to official figures.

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